Superdrive and itunes getting stuck
Hello. I know lots of people have problems with the super drive getting stuck.
My drive gets stuck sometimes when loading music or audiobooks. When it gets stuck on a song, i-tunes freezes up and the drive keeps repeating the same pattern trying to read the disc. It won't eject unless I force quit i-tunes. Sometimes then it will quit running and I can eject the disc, other times I have to restart the computer to get it to eject. Is there anyway to get it to just skip a bad spot instead of getting stuck.
Sometimes this also happens while watching a DVD. Then the DVD player will freeze, and I may have to restart the computer to eject the disc.
This seems to me like a dumb thing that apple should have figured out or thought through. Maybe just a button to let you physically skip the scratch or problem. I know it's probably not that simple.
Thanks. Mike
macbook 2.0 white, wireless mighty mouse Mac OS X (10.4.8) macbook 2.0, 2gb ram, 160gb HD
After a week the MacStore technician called and said that they had replaced the MATSHITADVD-R UJ-857 with a new on, and that the disc that I had given them was still freezeing up the drive at the same spot. He was able to play and copt the disc successfully on a G-5 and the copy of the disc works on my machine. He recommended that i make copies on another machine of any discs that do not work and thenplay the copies on my machine.
I was able tp play the original "faulty" disc on a MacBook store demo and it worked fine (with the same optical drive) I asked if they could just take the working disc drive out of the demo since it apparently works, but the tech said that they could no and could notor would not give me a suitable answer or reason as to why not.
THIS IS MY 3RD FAULTY OPTICAL DRIVE.....2 RIGHT OUT OF THE BOX1111111
macbook 2GHz Mac OS X (10.4.9)
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