No enhanced CD support in OS X ?!!?

jlaudon · Post by **jlaudon** » Mon May 19, 2008 2:08 pm

I just got my enchanced CD back from the mastering house, and it doesn't autorun in OS X - the authoring guy said that Apple eliminated this feature about a year ago.

Does anyone know more about this?

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Tue May 20, 2008 3:54 am

Hey John, I found this as macosxhints.com; you could try this in DU:

I discovered that I could go into Disk Utility and mount just the Audio CD part of the CD, and iTunes saw it instantly and could rip it ...
Insert CD
Open Disk Utility
Select the greyed-out "Audio CD" line item within your CD drive
Click Mount in the Disk Utility toolbar
That's it; now you can burn away.
Select your CD drive and click Eject to finish.
If you're doing multiple disks, you probably need to quit Disk Utility each time.

Dragon Burn 4.1.20 apparently features enhanced CD support.
A demo (10 uses) can be downloaded here:

http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Utilities/ ... Burn.shtml

It's OSX 10.1.5 or later, and is UB.

Comprehensive overview of DB4:

http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Onstream/NTIDRAGON/

Hope it's useable for you; you might want to try the demo.

jlaudon · Post by **jlaudon** » Tue May 20, 2008 6:06 pm

Thanks for taking the time - I'll try these things out. One lament is when I insert one of older CDs (like my Peter Gabriel one), it used to have a graphic window, much like a DVD menu, pop up automatically - this was in OS9, and earlier versions of OS X. Apparently this is gone in 10.4 and up (that's what the enhanced CD guy told me that is doing my CD - if I find a workaround like perhaps Dragon Burn that does burn in a way that that it autoruns in OS X, I'll be asking for a bit if money back (cosy me 240 bucks, and it's not even pretty

). The sad thing is that this is a worship CD and the chord charts are the enhanced part, and a lot of musicians actually use Macs - the upside is they should be smart enough then to navigate the folders to find the files. What a way to work...(smiley of a guy shaking his head)...

monkey man · Post by **monkey man** » Wed May 21, 2008 4:20 am

I feel for you, John.
It's a sorry state of affairs when the rolling wheel of standards forgets where it's been.
To my mind it's criminal to not support bygone formats; it benefits nobody, after all.