iTunes 6.0 is screwing up my Mac! (help request)

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Ever since I got it my Mac has refused to recognize lots of CDs. I put the damn disc in and it doesn't show up on the desktop or anything. Obviously, I can't import the fucking thing. I wish I could go back to 5.0 BUT I CAN'T - it isn't available anywhere I look. The thing that pisses me off the most is that these are CDRWs that I'm burning vinyl to, and I use Peak to make the tracks.

Is this some DRM thing with the new version? Does it only allow you to put a given CD in a finite # of times? Anybody heard of this problem? Google searching forums has proven fruitless.

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:02 (twenty years ago)

Example: I put in a finalized CDRW, it recognized it. I took it back out, unfinalized it (in my standalone analog burner), added a track, and refinalized it. Now it doesn't recognize it. Again, any insight would be most appreciated.

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 8 January 2006 06:05 (twenty years ago)

I barely understand your question. Although I thought there was a thing where CDRWs that were made in a Mac or PC often lost their "RW" nature when played with in the other platform. Something like that.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 8 January 2006 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Hadn't heard of that, although it's not surprising.

Sorry for the phrasing, but I don't really understand the problem that I'm having very well either. Basically, it seems that my G4 is recognizing CDs and CDRWs some times and not others. I need to do some more diagnostics and get a new version of Onyx, I guess. And keep searching Mac forums.

― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

I repaired disk permissions using Disk Utility and that seems to have fixed it - the CDRW in question now appears on the desktop. Still, installing iTunes 6.0 was the point at which this behavior started. I am happy, yet vaguely uneasy.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

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