Music app will not play CD to AirPods or other Bluetooth headphones/speaker

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Music app will not play CD to AirPods or other Bluetooth headphones/speaker

When using a Mac with an external CD drive the Music app will not play the CD directly to AirPods or other BT device such as HomePod or google home. I have read on another locked post that this is happening to other users.

I have discovered that I can use QuickTime or QuickLook in the finder to play the audio files by opening the CD that mounts on your desktop/finder. You can then Open with>QuickTime or simply press the spacebar to play using QuickLook. Hopefully that work around helps somebody out.

Long term I hope Apple fixes this apparent bug in the Music.app

Alternatively you can import (rip) the CD into your music library and it will play as expected though any device you select... but it is not expected behavior to have it not play direct from a CD to BT devices.

As many other users have said, we would like to listen to the CD before we import the entire album.. so just importing the album to listen to it on AirPods is not ideal

Mac mini, macOS 15.0

Posted on Sep 25, 2024 2:04 PM

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grejoh

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Nov 8, 2024 7:30 PM in response to dvon94

Sadly this is the sign of the times when it comes Apple by slowly removing features by passing the baton to App developers, with the Apple Superdrive quietly discontinued you kind of know what is coming around the corner as Apple prepare to add new features and retire the old, in this case tangible formats, I have a large collection of DVDs and some of them now no longer play with the player and that App is buried deep and is no longer in the App folder.

This is not a bug so don't expect a fix any day soon, for an alternative solution you could try the VLC player, the whole CD can be loaded into the app to display the full list, CDs & DVDs play as normal through bluetooth.

Surprisingly this App is not in the App Store and therefore it can be downloaded from the website directly, it's free and I have used this player for several years with excellent results, in my opinion a must have for Mac users.

Hope this helps.

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