copy protected cds

[amol]

Try using Secure Ripping with the Error correction set to the highest. It should work. I have tried this with my Norah Jones CD, and it works perfectly with me somehow.

 

[Iron_Dreamer]

Also, different drives yield different readability results. I've found my Toshiba DVD-ROM to be the best, plus it rips secure in EAC at 13X.

 

[commando]

EAC on it'd default settings worked fine for me, at its usual top speed (only about 10X). Oddly the DVD-CD/RW in my laptop played the CD fine anyway - nice one Acer

 

[UberNewb]

EAC has never had a problem with copy protected CDs for me either.

 

[ROK3]

Does anyone have an email address I can contact at the record label? I can't find anything at their site with my slow connection (my ship is at sea). I bought the cd before we pulled out of Thailand and all of my listening is done on hard disc MP3 player. The software I have on my laptop is not capable of bypassing this copy protection (and I can't download EAC over this network either).

The record company says they are worried about the rights of the artists. What about the rights of the people who purchased the CD? I have over 200 albums of MP3s but I own them all. And the record industry wonders why their sales are slumping

The whole time they complained about their sales falling they were raising the prices of their cd's faster than inflation. Maybe the cost of production was going up, but to me it looks like they needed to post bigger profit margins to the board of directors and the investors.

I guess while my ship is out protecting their freedom to put this copy protection crap on their music I'll just crawl into bed each night with my new Norah Jones CD and look at it for a few minutes before I turn out the lights...

--ROK

 

[davei]

Quote:

Originally posted by ROK3 Does anyone have an email address I can contact at the record label? I can't find anything at their site with my slow connection (my ship is at sea).

Compose your message in a word processor, then fire it off through here:

http://www.bluenote.com/feedback.asp

 

[ROK3]

Thanks a bunch davei!

Sorry all about my tirade last night. I was having a bad day

--ROK

 

[Mr.PD]

Okay I did have to set my EAC to external ASPI rather than native.
Didn't make any difference. The light on the CD drive just blinks and EAC says there is not an audio CD in the drive.

BTW the CD is Cadaveria - The Shadow's Madame


Oh, how do you get EAC to rip at 10x? Mine never goes over 2.5 in my old 98 machine. I haven't used it enough in the XP machine to remember what it rips at.

 

[commando]

Quote:

Originally posted by Mr.PD Oh, how do you get EAC to rip at 10x? Mine never goes over 2.5 in my old 98 machine. I haven't used it enough in the XP machine to remember what it rips at.

I didn't do anything special, it just works at that speed. My laptop has a reasonably good cdrom drive, maybe that's it.

 

[Mr.PD]

Mine rips slow no matter what drive I use.


Hey, I've been trying to get that CD to play or rip from. Every program I try just stalls, and becomes unresponsive. EAC, Windows Media, Winamp. All I get is blinking drive lights and stalled programs. I think this CD is beyond reasonable. I give up.

 

[Rendition]

The thing the really makes me upset is it CRASHES your PC. I mean I would mind a little less if it says "sorry doesn't work", but they found a way that works by crashing your PC.

 

[otprof]

Has anyone tried to rip the NJ CD on Linux with cdparanoia? I am going to try it tonight and will report back.

 

[TMC]

Quote:

Originally posted by Mr.PD Mine rips slow no matter what drive I use. Hey, I've been trying to get that CD to play or rip from. Every program I try just stalls, and becomes unresponsive. EAC, Windows Media, Winamp. All I get is blinking drive lights and stalled programs. I think this CD is beyond reasonable. I give up.

Have you tried disabling the disc detection for your cd-rom? And when you try to use EAC, start the program first and let the program eject the tray before you put in the disc, just to make sure the cd is entirely under EAC:s control. But whether you'll be successful or not really depends on what cd-rom you're using. Some will require a bit or work-around while others simply won't be able to read some protections.

 

[otprof]

Just wanted to say that I ripped Feels Like Home with cdparanoia on Linux with no problems at all. I specified that it rip tracks 1-13, and not track 14 (the data track).

Another win for the Penguin!

 

[Edwood]

Yes, make sure to "Detect Drive Read Features"

But, EAC is not always right about which drive is better.

-Ed