I've been asked to digitize a box of old CDs and move them onto an external SSD. For playback and data transfer, I've been using a MacBook Pro with an ASUS external disk drive. I also have access to a Windows desktop PC with an internal disk drive. Last week, I successfully digitized several CDs using both the MacBook and the PC. I can still play those files normally off the external SSD. But when I returned to my project this week, the MacBook/ASUS setup was suddenly no longer recognizing those same CDs -- nothing but my startup disk and external hard drive showed up in Disk Utility. I tried loading a CD to the PC, and it displayed .cda files rather than the .aiffs or .wavs it had displayed previously. I experimented with several other CDs; the problem occurred not only for CDs I'd already digitized, but also for ones I hadn't touched yet. Again, as of last week these CDs were recognized by both Mac and Windows as carrying .aiff and .wav files, which I was able to copy to the SSD with no problem. I tried fidgeting with the ASUS drive, and after awhile, Disk Utility did finally recognize one of the CDs. When I opened the CD in Finder, it displayed a list of .aiff files as anticipated. However, when I tried to test a data transfer by copying a single .aiff from the CD to the desktop, no dice -- just an endless "Estimating time to copy" notice, and a very sluggish Finder which eventually had to be relaunched. Similarly, neither VLC nor QuickTime could play the file, and both went non-responsive/had to be force quit when playback was attempted. In terms of purely just recovering the audio data, I can try using the PC setup to rip the CDs; I'm aware .cdas are a container/metadata format which don't carry any audio information, but I believe I should still be able to rip using Windows Media Player. As for the Mac setup, though, I'm very curious to know what went wrong? Should I try to hunt down an old CD player to check on playback that way? Any insight appreciated, cheers!

I'm trying to burn some CDs to play on my 1997 CD player but so far no luck I first burned mp3s on it and then I realized old CD players don't play mp3s Then I burned .wav files as an audio CD but I used DVD-R because I ran out of CD-R It still won't work Using Macbook Pro 2021 What am I doing wrong? Is there a workaround?

I want to automatically burn a cross-platform data CD with the same contents each time a blank disc is inserted, and eject it when done. To that end I created a very simple AppleScript that does just that: do shell script "/bin/bash -c 'hdiutil burn ~/Desktop/catalog.iso'" It works fine from the AppleScript editor. If I click "Run" with a blank CD inside, it burns the CD with the data from the .iso and ejects it upon completion. However, if I select "Run ~/Desktop/burn.scpt" as the default action when inserting a blank CD, nothing happens. I actually have to open the AppleScript editor and select "Run". How can I make it actually run the script?

I am using a 2017 Macbook Pro laptop (with touchbar), using High Sierra 10.13.6. I have several old discs with videos taken from many years ago (from around 1995!) and we can play these on a DVD player. I am trying to read the discs using a USB SuperDrive. Here is a visual of my setup: (I put the USB in the SuperDrive, then connect the SuperDrive to an adapter that plugs into one of the 4 slots of the touchbar.) I put in the disc, and feel some whirring sound on the discs. Then it shows me: The other options are: If I open in Finder, I see this: I am not sure about what I should do at this point. It seems like my laptop cannot see any files. The discs do not look scratched or dirty. Does anyone have advice for troubleshooting? Or are these videos just too old to be used, or is this not the right usage of the USB SuperDrive (I have not used it before)?

I need to clone an audio CD, including the defined pauses between tracks. Under Linux, cdrdao would do the trick for me, but I cannot get the version from MacPorts to work — it will not read from my SuperDrive. Could someone please tell me how to clone a CD with a MacBook Pro under Mountain Lion?

Is it possible to burn CD/DVD with iPhone and USB CD/DVD Writer? I have a camera module for the iPhone to make it as if it has USB female socket instead of lightning one. I’ve verified it works for my portable keyboard (musical instrument) to send signals to GarageBand nicely. The module also includes another port for a power supply! It was once a problem for iPhone to transfer any data to different device before the *Files* app became available, but it is not now, I assume. That being the case, is it possible to transfer data stored on an iPhone to a CD/DVD using the camera module and CD/DVD writer?

Is there an app or a native way to burn multiple copies of the same CD or DVD on a Mac with OS X in one go? As in, when the first disc is burnt, it pops out and you insert the next disk and it continues until you've done your lot of disks then you stop the process. For such a basic feature which I've been using ages ago on Windows it seems a bit strange that I cannot find a way of doing it on Mac.

I have a CD-ROM 700 MB, 80 Minute Recordable Disc that I want to burn a video on, and with some help I've found Burn and DVDStyler. However, both do not recognise my CD-R. When I enter the CD-ROM, a menu pops up asking me what I want to do, and if I select "Open with finder", nothing happens. The drive stops sounding busy after some time. Finder only recognises my external remote disc drive, and the info is suspiciously empty. Disc Utility, on the other hand, does seem to identify the CD-ROM correctly as HL-DT-ST DVDRW GX40N Media, but it is uninitialised and unwritable. Is there anything I can do in order to get Burn or DVDStyler to recognise my CD-ROM and burn data on it?

Whenever I insert a CD in my external burner/reader, it does not appear on my Desktop. Therefore I cannot copy to it. I cannot eject it either without restarting my computer and holding the option key. I have set up the CD/DVD in the preferences. Am I missing something?

I just want to burn some music for my Mom to a CD-R. I've done this multiple times. If I check MP3 CD box, I receive message stating all music is not MP3, and it won't allow. If I check other option, Data CD or DVD, it copies but if I insert into CD player, message is, " No Audio." This can't be this hard. Any help is appreciated. I have OS 10.7.5 Thanks

Is there an APP to make a bootable dvd i am using snow leopard but i do have access to a lion machine. I have an ISO from a legal copy of windows 7 it is a back up cd and yet i am having a hard time making it boot from the cd, the boot camp installer sees it but when I try and boot from it, it gives me a code 5 which is a non-bootable DVD the things i have tried

-burned to usb using dd

-burned to dvd

-restored using disk utils

I just want an app that will make it easy and painless and hopefully free so i can just get my bootcamp working... thanks in advance

I have a public domain audiobook from librivox.org which I want to put on CD for a blind friend.  I want to add a table of contents to the beginning of each CD.  The total length will take six CDs without a lot to spare, so I am planning on seven after I add the TOC files. The files already have track numbers matching the 27 chapter numbers, i.e., 1 0f 27, 2 of 27, …, 27 of 27.  Since I only have ten blank CDs, and they are CD-R (write only once), I am reluctant to answer this by experimenting. Do I need to renumber all the files, including my additions, so that each CD starts with track 1 of N? Or can I make my additions track 0 of 27, disk X of 7 and still have the addition be the first track on its CD? Or to put it another way, if the metadata for disk two is 0/27, 5/27, 6/27, etc. will the CD be in that order? Or scrambled, or even just create an error message? When I imported an unrelated two-disc album, the CDDB made it two separate albums, so I can't judge by that. Would it work better to take them out of iTunes and burn the CDs some other way?

I have a disk with almost no labeling. I can tell by looking that it's a CD and not a DVD. I can tell by looking closer which side is which (mfg. part/batch number) and that it is blank (writing makes a band of different appearance). I can also have my MacBook Pro tell me all those things by putting it in the optical drive. But is there a non-invasive way for MacOS to tell me whether it's CD-RW or just CD-R? (ReWritable or Recordable.) drutil can only tell me the drive's capabilities, unless I try an erase, which may make a CD-R unusable. Web search for the part number(s) found nothing. If I try to re-write, I’ll know. But at that point, it will no longer be usable, and I’ll have to go buy another. My nephew stopped by and found it by Properties in Windows, but it would be nice to know a MacOS or Darwin method.

I have a bootable floppy that boots just fine on old PCs. I want to boot it however on my 2015 Macbook Pro, which does not have the BIOS (whereas my 2013 MBP did). So I cannot on the 2015 model even boot a Linux CD. I have an ISO header that will let me create a readable CDROM, but not a bootable CDROM. (Command is: cat isoheader.img floppy.img > cdrom.iso) The Apple bless command gives an error when I add the --legacy switch. What to do? PS: I cannot use bootcamp as I do not have enough free drive space.

I want to create an exact duplicate of an audio CD on my Mac (Lion). Is there a way that does not involve to import the CD into iTunes? I just don't want to remember that I have to delete the tracks after copying. And I'm not sure if importing and burning again really creates an exact copy. (Track gaps preserved, and so on) I tried using Finder, Crtl-click the CD, select duplicate. Ctrl-click the resulting Folder and select burn to CD, but that left my with a data CD containing AIFF-Files. Any ideas, or AppStore suggestions?

I've seen guides on how to do it using Disk Utility and the hdutil command but when I search the net for something that involves using toast, I came up blank. I've looked around toast (version 11) and I don't see a way of doing it. Can you help? Thanks

iTunes is lacking some features I could really use for burning MP3 CDs for the car audio system. 1. Ability to convert AAC to MP3 2. Ability to group non-album songs into folders In itunes, the process appears to be: - find all the songs you want to burn to an MP3 CD - figure out which songs are not in MP3 format - tell itunes to make duplicate versions of these files in MP3 format - figure out which are now the MP3 versions and drag them into a playlist - edit the copied MP3s' meta data to 'fake' a new album so it's grouped on the CD correctly Is there a piece of software that can do what I'm looking for and/or is there a way to do what I want in iTunes that I'm somehow missing?

Please tell me how to burn a FAT32 CD under Snow Leopard (10.6.8). I have tried multiple approaches, including creating a FAT32 .dmg properly sized for the disc, and burning from the Finder or from Disk Utility. The thread at https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/63531/how-to-burn-windows-compatible-cd-on-mac-os-x-mountain-lion did not help me. The image correctly shows up as type FAT32 in Disk Utility, but the resulting disc invariably shows up as type Mac OS Extended. I am trying to do this because some Windows users are reporting not seeing anything on the disc I sent them. It was my understanding that the Mac automatically creates CDs that can be read by both OS X and Windows.

iMac OSX 10.8.5 I am often producing demo CDs for a musician. The steps are 1. insert blank 2. scroll to playlist 3. right click and choose burn 4. click ok 5. wait for jingle - this scrolls to the playable CD 6. click eject repeat I would like to 1. scroll to playlist ONCE 2. right click and choose burn 3. get prompted for disks until I am done and click cancel Is there a setting I did not find? I am not interested in 3rd party software - just wondering if there is a setting I overlooked or perhaps some way of automating this.

I'm having an odd issue where after my Mac Pro works for a certain amount of time (it seems variable), the drive will no longer seemingly be recognized. It shows up in the hardware profile for the system, however when I hit the eject key, Toast starts up instead of my drive responding. Further, when Toast or any other CD / DVD writing utility is started, the drive is not recognized in these applications. Any idea as to what could potentially be going on here? The thing that throws me the real curve ball is that it DOES work for a little while when the system is restarted and then just "disappears" as noted. NOTE: Even when Toast is not in the mix Disk Utility and other apps will not recognize the drive. It is obviously some kind of an OS issue in terms of it still showing up in the hardware profile, yet no applications are able to detect / use it properly.