Ripping CDs on My Mac Mini - a Glitch?

Housteau · « **on:** 26 Mar 2010, 02:34 pm »

I seem to have come across my first Apple glitch of sorts. Every once and a while after a CD is inserted I will get the message box asking me if I wish to import this selection, as usual, but when I click Yes, the track listing disappears as does the desktop icon for the inserted CD. Also, the normal listing of that CD on the left side of the iTunes menu under Devices is gone. In fact the Devices listing itself is also gone. Upon rebooting everything comes back without issue.

I was wondering if anyone else has run across this and knew what the possible cause could be so i could avoid it? Also, is there a way to bring back that CD without rebooting?

jtwrace · « **Reply #1 on:** 26 Mar 2010, 02:39 pm »

I had the same issue with my 9month old Mini and when I brought it back to the store, they said the drive was bad. I got home and uploaded three Cd's and was happy. I inserted the fourth and the same thing happened. I went back to the store and they

I've filied an problem report with Apple but nothing has happened...this was all over 3 months ago now.

I hope someone here can tell me what the problem is as well.

skunark · « **Reply #2 on:** 26 Mar 2010, 03:14 pm »

This has been an issue with macs is for many years now. I now keep the disk utility open so I can just remount the drive without having to eject it.

Housteau · « **Reply #3 on:** 26 Mar 2010, 03:37 pm »

Quote from: skunark on 26 Mar 2010, 03:14 pm

This has been an issue with macs is for many years now. I now keep the disk utility open so I can just remount the drive without having to eject it.

Could you please explain exactly step by step what your work-around is when this happens. I am not sure if I completely understand what you wrote here. Thanks.

skunark · « **Reply #4 on:** 26 Mar 2010, 04:57 pm »

You can find the "disk utility" application in the "Utilities" folders listed with the other applications. Once you open that right off the bat you see your harddrive, any external drives or flash cards connected along with the cd-rom if you have one inserted. If you have an "audio cd' in the drive the disk utility will show that as well and if that CD isn't listed in iTunes (and the finder) just right-click "audio cd" and select mount. (mount just means it will appear in the finder) iTunes should recognize the "audio cd" and start auto-importing if you have iTunes configured that way.

This "bug" has been in the Mac OS X for the last three versions and I'm unable to narrow it down if it's a cd that violates the redbook standard or if there's some OS/third party bug. Since I don't have those problems on linux or Windows XP/Vista for the same exact hardware, i'm pretty confident that it is an Apple bug. You can search on the various mac forums that will discuss this issue in more detail, but for now and probably long in the future I can use the disk utility when OSX gets confused.