G4 OS 10.4.10 CD reader problem

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Thom Mckeown

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May I ask if you've any ideas on how to resolve this problem please? On my G4 (running OSX.4.10) when I insert data CDs it seems to accept them and the image appears on the desktop and I can easily access the data therein. But when I insert any commercially recorded music CDs it ejects them. I've tried several pre-recorded CDs and they've pretty much all been ejected, with one exception from a double-CD set. It read Disc 1 but rejected Disc 2! (The same applies with DVDs). Obviously I've gone into System Preferences/Hardware/CDs & DVDs although when I click on iTunes for when I'm inserting a music CD it invariably jumps back to 'ignore' - could this be part of the problem and if so how do I ensure it will remain with displaying iTunes at this section? This is a really big problem as I want to increase my iTunes library to transfer more music to my 160gb iPod. Please help if you've any suggestions! Many thanks.

Thom Mckeown
 
G4? First blow the dust out of the drive with compressed air. Then buy one of those cheap CD/DVD cleaning disks. This might help.
 
Cleaning might help. Have you tried creating a new user account, just to test this? If you are logged into another account, and audio CDs are still ejected, then likely your CD drive is bad. Audio read is a separate hardware function from data reads. One function can work, and another fail. The multi-disk set that partially works might have one disk that is a hybrid disk, with some data files. That may be why it works. If you need commercial audio CDs to read, the only fix is replacing the drive.
 
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