Buddy’s Mac won’t show what’s on this CD; just says it can’t play it. It’s a burned CDR with some audio files of unknown type. It would help if we could find what type they were to see if that’s the problem, and if using an different audio player would help.
Yes, I know he can put it into a Windows computer. We may have to do that.
Shift-click on the icon, then select “Show in Finder” from the drop down.
There’s no icon. It won’t admit it as a CD player as far as I can tell. Once again, Apple’s outsmarted themselves, and made things so “easy” that you can’t get something done. “We’ll tell you when the CD player can be used by our software. Other than that, it doesn’t exist.”
The first thing to check is to make sure that Mac OS will show you discs that it does know about. Go into the finder, and select “Preferences…” under the “Finder” menu; under the “General” tab, be sure that “CDs, DVDs, and iPods” are selected under “Show these items on the desktop.”
If that doesn’t work, you can also try using the “drutil” command within the Terminal to find out the location of the disc in the file system; it should be something like “/dev/DISK_NAME”. You can then use the “cd” and “ls” command from in there to list the contents of the disc (if any.)
ETA: I should say that I don’t have a removable disc to try out this second method in my own Mac, so I’m not 100% that the above steps are correct. I welcome any corrections that more knowledgeable folks might make.
This has nothing to do with making things “easy”; if the disc is unreadable, it’s unreadable.
Command-space, and start typing Disk Utility. Open that. It should list the drive on the left, and will tell you what it knows about the CD.
It’s almost certainly not an Audio CD.
It’s probably some moronic Windows format that doesn’t save the TOC until the disk is finalized.