New iMac unable to read music cds?

I just bought the new Beatles box set--and it does not work fully in my iMac. It does play the mini documentary, but not the music. iTunes doesnt even recognize it.
It is on enhanced cds but an old cd player I have does play the music. What's up with this?
I also tried a couple of standard old music cds--same thing.

Never mind. The iMac went into a series of rebooting, after I restarted it to pop out the cd it did not recognize. Then the screen went sort of off color with a normal color stripe running thru it. It went back to the Apple store and has been replaced!

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