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markallen248:
Hello,
In the past I never had an issue with ripping or burning CDs on my Mac Mini and Macbook Pro with my external LG Slim Portable CD/DVD drive. Lately for some reason I have nothing but problems. Blank disks are not recognized by Media Center 20.0.132. iTunes has no issue at all. When I insert a CD when Media Center is running the disc is not recognized. If I quit and restart Media Center with an audio CD already in the drive sometimes I'll have success reading the disc. Once the rip is complete and I eject the disc it won't recognize there is a disc in the drive. I'm running El Capitan 10.11.1 on both my Mac Mini and Macbook Pro. Same issue on both machines with the LG drive. What the heck is going on as this was never a problem in the past?

markallen248:
It's also worth noting that if I have the audio CD in the drive before starting Media Center it will try to read the audio CD, briefly show the song titles and then they disappear and it shows there is no disc in the drive. Maddening

markallen248:
Lastly I uninstalled and reinstalled the program. Still the same issue.

blgentry:
For what it's worth...

A)  I had very inconsistent results with ripping CDs in MC20 for Mac.  Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn't.
B)  The CD issues with El Cap are well known and they are saying will be fixed in the next build of MC21.  This doesn't help you with MC20, but it's good to know that this is a widespread issue with El Cap and MC2X.
C)  There are lots of other programs that rip CDs for Mac.  I personally use XLD and have ripped hundreds of discs with it.  It integrates with MC quite well; just point it's output at a directory that MC does auto import on and it will see the files as they are ripped.

Good luck.

Brian.

markallen248:
Thanks for the response. I have almost $100 invested in licensing over the past few years including a Master license. It is not reasonable to expect a customer to buy another upgrade to simply rip and burn discs. I'm hoping someone from JRiver will respond as I shouldn't have to keep spending money just to keep the software working. This is not acceptable.

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