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CDs & DVDs This handy pane (Figure 9-5) lets you tell the Mac what it should do when it detects you've inserted a CD or DVD. For example, when you insert a music CD, | . CDs DVDs This handy pane Figure 9-5 lets you tell the Mac what it should do when it detects you ve inserted a CD or DVD. For example when you insert a music CD you probably want iTunes Chapter 11 to open automatically so you can listen to the CD or convert its musical contents to MP3 or AAC files on your hard drive. Similarly when you insert a picture CD such as a Kodak Photo CD you probably want iPhoto to open in readiness to import the pictures from the CD into your photo collection. And when you insert a DVD from Blockbuster you want the Mac s DVD Player program to open. Figure 9-5. You can tell the Mac exactly which program to launch when you insert each kind of disc or tell it to do nothing at all. For each kind of disc blank CD blank DVD music CD picture CD or video DVD the pop-up menu lets you choose options like these Ask what to do. A dialog box appears that asks what you want to do with the newly inserted disc. Open iDVD iTunes iPhoto DVDPlayer. . The Mac can open a certain program automatically when you insert the disc. When the day comes that somebody writes a better music player than iTunes or a better digital shoebox than iPhoto you can use the Open other application option. Run script. If you ve become handy writing or downloading AppleScript programs Chapter 7 you can schedule one of your own scripts to take over from here. For example you can set things up so that inserting a blank CD automatically copies your Home folder onto it for backup purposes. Ignore. The Mac won t do anything when you insert a disc except display its icon on the desktop. If it s a blank disc the Mac does nothing at all. UP TO SPEED System Preferences Under the Hood The entire System Preferences program is nothing more than a series of graphical front ends for underlying Unix settings. If you know Unix and feel so inclined you can in fact bypass the System Preferences panel completely. Using the defaults command you can use Mac OS X s Terminal program to make any of the