Problem with Enhanced CDs stopping: an explanation

Several readers wrote me with the explanation for this enhanced CD problem (as reported last time). Essentially, since the enhanced CD has both an audio and an HFS portion, any time you try to access the HFS portion (as will happen automatically if you do something such as use the Open or Save As command of any application), the audio portion will stop as the drive head moves to the HFS portion of the disk.

An engineer from Apple confirmed this and added: "Apple does know of the problem, and several people are toying with work-arounds."