CDs DVDs

CDs & DVDs

The CDs & DVDs preferences pane lets you specify what should happen when you insert a CD or DVD. The options that appear vary depending on your computer's CD and DVD capabilities. Figure 14 shows how this preferences pane appears for an eMac with a SuperDrive, which is capable of reading and writing both CDs and DVDs.

Figure 14. The CDs & DVDs preferences pane on an iMac with a SuperDrive.

To specify what should happen when you insert a CD or DVD

Choose an option from the pop-up menu beside the event that you want to set. The menus are basically the same; Figures 15 and 16 shows an example for inserting a blank CD and a music CD. Your options are:

• Ask what to do displays a dialog like the one in Figure 17, which enables you to tell your computer what to do each time you insert that type of disc. If you turn on the Make this action the default check box in the dialog, you will change the setting for that type of disc in the CDs & DVDs preferences pane.

  Figure 17. The Ask what to do option displays this dialog when you insert a disc.

  

  
  

• Open application name opens the specified application. Use this option if you always want to open a specific application when you insert that type of disc.

• Open other application displays a dialog like the one in Figure 18. Use it to select and open the application that should open when you insert that type of disc.

  Figure 18. Use this dialog to select an application or script to run when you insert a disc.

  

  
  

• Run script displays a dialog like the one in Figure 18. Use it to select and open an AppleScript applet that should open when you insert that type of disc. (I discuss AppleScript in Chapter 20.)

• Ignore tells your computer not to do anything when you insert that type of disc.

Figure 15. The pop-up menu for inserting a blank CD…

Figure 16. …and for inserting a music CD.