So I've just gotten a Samsung "CD Yepp" MP3 CD Player for Christmas. Here I was on Christmas-day, all excited to fire-up iTunes and burn my first MP3 CD. This seemed to work great, but when I put the CD-R into the player, all I got was display of "Reading" for about 30 seconds, and the "Good-bye" as the player simply shutdown.
After some experimentation, I found that copying the CD-R contents to the hard-drive, and then using the Finder to burn them to a new CD-R resulted a playable MP3 CD-R. The only difference I could see between these two CD-Rs was that the directory permissions were different. The bad CD-R did not have write and execute permissions for Group and Other on the directories ('rwxr--r--' from Terminal 'ls -l' command), while the CD-R created by the Finder had rwx across the board ('rwxrwxrwx'). I suppose it could be that the player cannot see any of the directory contents because of the missing execute permission on Group and Other.
My question is: why does iTunes create directories with 'rwxr--r--' permissions, and can I change this behavior? I'm sure that returning the CD Player and purchasing a RioVolt instead would solve the problem, but that would cost 2 to 3 time as what the Samsung cost (only $42).
After some experimentation, I found that copying the CD-R contents to the hard-drive, and then using the Finder to burn them to a new CD-R resulted a playable MP3 CD-R. The only difference I could see between these two CD-Rs was that the directory permissions were different. The bad CD-R did not have write and execute permissions for Group and Other on the directories ('rwxr--r--' from Terminal 'ls -l' command), while the CD-R created by the Finder had rwx across the board ('rwxrwxrwx'). I suppose it could be that the player cannot see any of the directory contents because of the missing execute permission on Group and Other.
My question is: why does iTunes create directories with 'rwxr--r--' permissions, and can I change this behavior? I'm sure that returning the CD Player and purchasing a RioVolt instead would solve the problem, but that would cost 2 to 3 time as what the Samsung cost (only $42).