[mbkncsu]

My MacBook is not reading explicit cd's when i try to import them. It does read other cd's though. Is there any reason why this would happen and does anyone know what to do to fix this?
thank you

[bastion]

What's an "explicit CD?" Just people moaning in pleasure? What would differentiate it from any other audio CD?

[mbkncsu]

sorry, parental advisory cd, lyrics would be what makes it different, for example my computer wont read Jay-Z's "The Black Album" but it can read Alicia Keys "Everything I Am".

[leicaman]

Which version of OS X? Have you checked your parental controls if it's Leopard?

[mbkncsu]

No its not Leopard, i tried to mess with parental controls but it says that i cannot turn on parental controls as an Admin, so im not sure why that is.

[bastion]

I think you're seeing a symptom that's just a coincidence. There's no mechanism I'm aware of, or can find documented, that would allow CDs to be physically marked in that way such that a player could detect the mark and refuse to play. How many CDs have you tried? Can you not import, or not play at all? (More broadly, how far do you get in the "import" process before something goes wrong?) Is it possible the discs you can't import are just scratched to the point where they can't be read?

[mbkncsu]

Well, ive tried 3 new cds and 1 old one and they all wont read so its not that the cd is messed up. Then I can put in any non parental advisory cd and they will play. The disks that i try usually just sound like they are trying to be read for like 10 sec then they just pop back out. And the thing is that they read on my moms MacBook Pro so i really dont know what is going on.

[mdawson]

Something here definitely does not make sense. Many of the CDs in my collection have explicit lyrics and out of my entire collection of CDs only three tracks, not CDs, have failed to rip. Two of the three are tracks at the end of albums that push the limits of the amount of data a CD can hold and the third is from a damaged CD. CDs with explicit lyrics are not encoded any differently from CDs that do not. So even OS X’s parental controls will have no effect on what CDs can be ripped by a given user.

[mdawson]

Limiting your privileges defeats the purpose of being an administrator. You can only set parental controls for other “standard” user accounts.