My MBP refuses to read audio CD's created on Windows

I have about 30 - 40 Audio CD's that were created on a Windows machine. My MBP refuses to read these CD's and kicks them out after a 10 - 12 seconds of fumbling with them. The same CD can be read and imported using iTunes on a Windows machine. What seems to be the problem????

mapexvenus,
Try cleaning the lens. Any major-brand optical drive cleaning disk should be OK. If that doesn't help, you may have a bad installation of OS X (or a bad optical drive, but let's not go there just yet).
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