Can't Import from External CD Drive

I purchased an external cd drive to speed up the importing of my cd collection and it doesn't work with iTunes. When I put a cd in, it pulls up, accesses gracenote, and the little green checkmark circles all appear next to the songs. However the length of each song is 789:58:326, or something thereabouts, and there is nothing for the song. When the song is clicked on, iTunes scrolls through the list until it finds a song that wasn't ripped using the external drive. any help would be appreciated.

hmmmm. probably best under those circumstances to do the import and check the songs individually to see if they've come across okay.
just personal experience, but i've found that a number of songs on CDs that wouldn't work on players actually imported fine in iTunes with error correction off. (thus i recovered a version of Belle and Sebastien' "Expectations".)

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