Disk utility won't image a music cd

i used to be able to do this. disk utility has the option of disk image from device is greyed out when i insert any audio cd. this is the same no matter which user logs into the computer or on my other mac -ibook. i am able to image any data disk or dvd. it doesn't make any difference if it is a new cd or a homemade cd - so this should rule out copy write issues.
seems like able "improved" something - i guess to prevent pirating. my teenage daughter is good on the flute and guitar, but isn't that good to have a lawyer and have things controlled by the music industry.

Are you sure you were able to do this before? As far as I know, Disk Utility has never been able to make a disk image of an audio CD. Maybe you were using a MP3 CD. Audio CD formats are very different from data CDs or DVDs. The number of bytes per sector is different, and the is no directory structure. The Finder tries to make audio CDs appear as a series of AIFF files, sometimes with song names, but that is not the way the data is written on the CD.
Use iTunes to import and burn audio CDs. If you choose Apple Lossless or AIFF in the "Importing" tab of the "Advanced" preferences, there will be no loss of quality.

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