AutoPlay a CDROM on OS X/Tiger/Jaguar

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toffee@christopherhart.nettoffee@christopherhart.net
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Does anyone have advice as to how one would burn a cd-rom that is hybrid and could autoplay on a mac when inserted? PC is easy but OS X is not. I can get it to play on both but only one will autoplay the cd without having to click anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated.



Thanks,

Toffee

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  • Reply 1 of 2
    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    This is a great feature of OS X. A CD/DVD should not override a user's control IMO.



    According to Adobe:



    AutoPlay on Macintosh OSX



    The AutoPlay feature was silently dropped under Mac OS X. For usability purposes, a readme file can be added to a CD's root folder to instruct the user about what to do. Many Macintosh resources recommend this for OSX as well System 9.



    A number of workarounds to enable AutoPlay on OSX have been posted on various online resources. For supported procedures regarding the AutoPlay feature, check the Macintosh Developer website.



    http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...nalId=tn_13374

    http://lists.apple.com/archives/quic.../msg00440.html



    Here are instructions to make an autostart CD in Toast:



    http://xchicago.com/?p=101



    but it seems the autostart feature is Quicktime-based and it doesn't look like it's there in newer versions of Quicktime.
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    teedoff087teedoff087 Posts: 348member
    I hate AutoPlay. I guess it's useful for novice computer users.
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