I was going to burn a copy of a commercial audio CD and could not get it to load. No messages, etc. It just makes some noise, then the drive ejects it. I tried some other audio CDs and they loaded fine... any ideas?

What's the condition of the CD? I've had some scratched up audio CDs that my iMac just would not read, though my MacBook was able to read them after a bit of trying.

The optical drives in Apple products suck balls. Having established that:

Do you have parallels installed? I had a lot of discs that wouldn't load when I was running parallels -- something to do with each OS trying to address the disc. If no, I'd try a simple restart, along with a quick firmware check. If you don't have the most current, go ahead and get it.

Perhaps it's DRM'd -- what's the title?

Perhaps it's DRM'd -- what's the title?

That was my initial thought. The CD is Enya Watermark (Reprise label). It is in good condition, and this is on a dual G5 powermac, so no parallels installed.

no parallels installed.

Natch. That may well be common knowledge 'round these parts, but I didn't know.

I'm now having exactly the same problem, but it's on 7 of 7 discs I tried last night. I'll let you know what's up when I sort it out.