The instructions indicated that it would have audio on the disk for what to do - and examining the working side of the disk yeah it looked as if there were audio tracks recorded there. So the cleaning disk has about 10 tiny brushes located in strategic spots embedded in the working side of the disk. Today I just got fed up with it's silliness and I needed a disk to work in the Mini, so I explored options. Had been going on for a while, but I figured the drive was winding to end of life and I used it for what I knew still worked. Then again - never had this problem either. Typically when non-functioning there is a tray grinding, or lens positioning grinding such that you know the drive is done. I have never cleaned a CD/DVD device in my life, whether standalone music/movie player device or a computer attached device. Could have gone the Amazon route (Prime rocks) but wanted to try today (Sunday) as opposed to Tuesday. It was the "Insignia" brand, which is the Best Buy store brand of stuff. So instead I packed up and went to my local Best Buy where I confirmed they had a cleaning disk for about $12 (online inventory chess are a good thing). I remained skeptical, and I wasn't quite ready to try that (aside from the fact that the only lens cleaning cloth i had was well worn past its time). Tons of Mac forum posts point to drive failure, firmware, etc., and a large percentage of them attach the change trigger from working to not working to the point of an OS X upgrade.īut a number of them also describe trying to clean the drive lens, some few with a cleaning disk but mostly with a lens cleaning cloth wrapped around a business card and worked back and forth in the slot. Every disk tried works on an Apple external drive attached to my MBP or Mini and in a generic DVD R/RW I have in a home built box. I have been having the same basic symptoms with my MacMini (Early 2009)'s drive.would read real CD's DVDs, wouldn't burn for crap anymore, and would register a burnt and functioning in other devices CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW as an empty disk. Granted, new on this board - joined just for the purpose of posting this response, and I was as much a skeptic as anyone reading about the same problems in various Mac forums. If you want to go cheap, do the lens cleaning cloth wrapped over business card concept for a slot loading drive. When you insert a CD into the drive, what happens next?Ĭlick to expand.As stupid as it sounds - going to go with the "get a cleaning disk" and clean the drive lens. It's something specific "on your end of things" - a setting, perhaps something else - that is preventing the CD's from being played. There is no inherent problem with High Sierra insofar as playing home-burned CDs is concerned.
My guess is that there is -something else- that is causing your problems.
I right-clicked on a file, chose "Open with QTAmateur", and the file played, no problems. I opened the CD, the music files were there. I normally don't use iTunes to play my music (I use either "QTAmateur" or an updated version of "Cog"). I set System Preferences so that iTunes DOES NOT open when a CD is inserted. I inserted it into the drive, it came up on the desktop. I took a home-burned CD from my collection that I burned back in 2014. I use an external USB CD/DVD/Bluray burner (Samsung). I normally use El Capitan, but to answer your post above, I booted over to my "test install" of High Sierra (version 10.13.1).
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