My drive just spits the discs back out.

I have a Matshita DVD-R drive that came installed on my MacBook. It's never had any problems, but today it decided not to read any audio CDs that I put in. I'll put a CD in, I'll hear the drive start to "spin up" a couple times, and then it spits the disc back out. No error message, nothing. It won't even show up in Finder or iTunes. I tried this with several audio CDs and it's treating them all the same.
Any thoughts on what might cause this kind of blind refusal to accept CDs - and what can I do to fix it? I tried restarting, but that's about it...Any help is much appreciated!

hi, Is it all disks? Are the disks your using of the same brand? You could try and SMC Reset (System Management Control)
To do this, Simply shut down the iMac and remove every cable connected including the power cord from the back. Leave for 15 seconds and then put the power back in. Power on and test.
Its likely that this is a system wide issue, As in it happens in every user account. But if you do have 5 mins spare you could always create a new user account and test this to confirm

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