Getting CD or dvd to play

hi all
I have been working on this for a couple of hours, looked thru this forum, the MAC support and i can find the solution.
I have never used my cd player on my macbook. today i needed to play an instructional CD (american heart assoc cd) for work. I inserted it, and nothing..I can't get it to start playing?
Any suggestions to get this to work?
thanks

Is that a CD-ROM, audio CD, or VideoCD?
Have you tried any others-like a regular music CD? When you insert it, do you hear it spin up? Does an icon for it appear on the Desktop or in the Finder window sidebar?

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