My Super Drive suddenly stopped ejecting a CD - stuck

My Super Drove which has been working for 3 months and hundreds of CDs suddenly stopped reading a "home-made" audio CD after it was inserted and will not eject. You can feel the mechanism cycling. How do you get a stuck cd out?

Restart the computer and hold the trackpad down until the CD is ejected.
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