I mac does not do anything when i put in some cds

this is weird, i put in a cd and it won't do anything at all not even run it just waits about a minute and ejects it, i have it set to open i tunes when a cd is put in and i have everything checked in the importing section of i tunes prefrences why why won't it let me import from bought cds? not all but some.
imac   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

There are no special configurations you can make to deal with copy protected discs. However, since you have not mentioned that any of the CDs you've used have copy protection, I'm not sure why this issue has come up... Anyway, there aren't any copy protected CDs that OS X can't play. Mounting copy protected discs and playing the audio portion (session) of them is something left for your optical drive and firmware to deal with. I would also have to interject that the error correction preference (for reading audio CDs) has absolutely nothing to do with how discs are mounted on a Mac. It has to do with reading CDs that are already mounted.
I work with a lot of different Macs, and every one of them exhibits strange behaviors when handling removable media (CDs and DVDs). As was mentioned earlier in this thread, it usually comes down to just trying to load the discs again (and again) until they spin up and mount.

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