Audio CD doesn't mount anymore
I just purchased a CD (a Chinese CD) off the Net (legitimate). Outside the package, there was no "copy-protected" or such warning mentioned. I put it into my optical drive like usual, it mounted on the Finder, played on iTunes, I ripped the whole CD into my library as well. Everything seens normal.
Today, I put the CD back into the drive. It no longer mounted on the Finder, iTunes couldn't see it neither AppleSystemProfiler nor DiskUtility.
In the past, I had no trouble playing any audio CD (eg. enhance CD and AVCD) on my Mac. I was just weird. I tried trashing the "CD Info.cidb" and "CDDB Preferences" files, then reboot the machine.
Do you think there are some hidden files which dis-allow it to mount? It plays fine on my portable CD discman. I don't have another optical drive or Mac to try.
Any advice?
[edit]: I did a "sudo autodiskmount -v" in Terminal, but it just showed up my local HDs only... no removable storage. Any other trick to mount a removable storage (CD) via a command in Terminal?
Today, I put the CD back into the drive. It no longer mounted on the Finder, iTunes couldn't see it neither AppleSystemProfiler nor DiskUtility.
In the past, I had no trouble playing any audio CD (eg. enhance CD and AVCD) on my Mac. I was just weird. I tried trashing the "CD Info.cidb" and "CDDB Preferences" files, then reboot the machine.
Do you think there are some hidden files which dis-allow it to mount? It plays fine on my portable CD discman. I don't have another optical drive or Mac to try.
Any advice?
[edit]: I did a "sudo autodiskmount -v" in Terminal, but it just showed up my local HDs only... no removable storage. Any other trick to mount a removable storage (CD) via a command in Terminal?
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sent email to SONY music yesterday... still no words.
Deleting your cache may be necessary if you experience any of the following: [list=a][*]you have more than one of the same preference panel in your System Preferences[*]CD's, DVD's and HD's don't mount properly or don't even show up[*]Applications behave strange[*]etc.[/list=a] Delete everything in ~/Library/Caches/, where '~' is your home folder.
Deleting your cache isn't dangerous; it only deletes the cache, ie. things who are stored there so that an application has faster access to it, or because it needs to store some things.
Originally posted by Paul
heh...
sure sure sure... I'm using it very often... good text gets copied... even if it's my own...
do you have any other computers?
List of Copy-protected CD's or corrupt CD's.
Anyway, I'll try try it in my school computer lab.