CD or DVD won't stay mounted

Last night, I was moving some music from a CD to i tunes, when the music started to sort of skip (the CD was pretty scratched so, I didn't give it much thought), then the CD would spin then stop and then spin again like the drive was in some kind of loop.
The CD would not eject until I restarted and now, the drive will not except any CD or DVD. The disks pop out right after I slip them in.
This sounds expensive. Could it be a software thing?
The Mac Mini is about a year old and the drive has worked like a champ up to this point.

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