Itunes stopped reading cds

itunes used to read cds with no problems and was also able to import music off of them. Now for whatever reason itunes stopped reading cds whenever I load them into the disc drive. I have to close the itunes window , pop in the cd into the disc drive, wait for itunes to automatically open and then I can see the contents of the cd. How do I fix it and moreover why did it start behaving in this manner?

Just recently my iTunes stopped reading blank cds, I put a blank cd in the drive and go to the playlist that I want to burn and click burn and then it says please insert a blank cd and spits it out.
Hi bigL1324,
I had this problem as well. Open the playlist first, Then insert a blank CD...it worked for me

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