Reading a CD-R with MP3s from a PC

A friend recently burnt me a CD-R that contains about 27 MP3 files on it. She created the CD in iTunes on a PC.
I've been listen to the CD on Windows Media Player on a PC at work. It works fine there.
I brought it home tonight and attempted to import it into iTunes on my Mac.
The laptop won't even read the CD. It just spins and spins for about a minute and then ejects it without even mounting it.
I'm not sure what the problem is.
Is there some way to force it to read it and stay in the drive so I can import it some other way without using iTunes?
I'm not sure what to do when it won't even mount.
I've tried Disc Utility. It acknowledges a disc is in the drive - but still ejects it and won't let me do anything.
Suggestions welcome.
Thanks.

Some Mac laptop drives (and aside from the Mac Pro, all Macs now use laptop slot-loading drives) are very sensitive to CD quality, and will not read some off-brand discs. Is this a name-brand disc?
To be sure, I'd boot into Windows on my Mac to see if it was hardware or software, but unless you have Boot Camp working, I doubt it's worth the effort.

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