F*&KING copyright protected cd's!!!

[vranswer]

Got EAC. But will it stop the ripped album from popping and hissing????

 

[GSTom1]

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Originally Posted by vranswer Got EAC. But will it stop the ripped album from popping and hissing????

Often is depends on your CD Rom Drive. Plextor drives are supposed to be the best.

In Exact Audio Copy, Go to Actions > TOC Alterations, and turn on Use First Session Only, and perform a Detect TOC Manually. This will make ripping a CD much longer. I have tried this with two different EMI copy protected CDs. One worked fine but the other still had the occasional pop.

 

[uncle b]

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Originally Posted by tkam Just do a quick search on google, all the copy protection schemes that the record labels have come up with are complete junk and are very easy to bypass.

Thanks tkam,

This is exactly what I did, was able to remove the program, re-booted, and then held the left shift key down as I inserted the disc, and now, finally, I am able to enjoy the compact disc that I purchased with my hard-earned money.

Seriously, I don't mean to go off on a recording industry rant, but this stuff is seriously screwed. It just goes to show that they really have no idea how to treat the final consumers of their product either. Really, I could care less about DualDisc (which seems to be cluttering the shelves at an alarming rate) and stuff like that, if I wanna watch a special "making of the album" video, I'll watch "DIG!" on DVD. Gimme some good tunes on a disc that isn't like 78 minuted long, jus' cuz it can be...I do think these "special editions" are a total rip-off as well, released just months after the original versions. It goes to show the short shelf life of most of today's music.

Thanks for everyone's help/input.

 

[Amuse]

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Originally Posted by uncle b Man, I AM pissed. As a long-standing supported of the recorded music industry, purchasing compact discs every Tuesday basically for most of my adult life, I can't stand these new copyright protected cd's, the ones with the MediaMax software on it. As you see on my long-standing signature below, I share none of my music, and all of my DAP's are filled with my cd's... Here, I am all I want to do is copy a cd in WMA to my iRiver iHP-120...but this damn copyright protection will not allow me to get a clean copy of it. I know I have overridden this before somehow, I just forget, could someone remind me what to do? I'd appreciate it.

Is this DRM?

 

[The D]

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Originally Posted by Amuse Is this DRM?

No, DRM is for stuff bought online.

This is about CC CDs(the CP on the CDs makes it hard to rip them).

 

[vranswer]

This is an unmitigated outrage!

I had no idea they were trying to pull this crap off on the music side. A call to arms!! A time to revolt!!

 

[Usagi]

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Originally Posted by vranswer This is an unmitigated outrage! I had no idea they were trying to pull this crap off on the music side. A call to arms!! A time to revolt!!

Are you proposing that we have a Boston CD Party?

 

[vranswer]

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Originally Posted by Usagi Are you proposing that we have a Boston CD Party?

AYE! No DRMation without representation!! Off with their heads!!

 

[YamiTenshi]

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Originally Posted by uncle b Here, I am all I want to do is copy a cd in WMA to my iRiver iHP-120...but this damn copyright protection will not allow me to get a clean copy of it. I know I have overridden this before somehow, I just forget, could someone remind me what to do? I'd appreciate it.

Don't use Windows Media to rip music. It does something to the music so that it can't be played correctly on other players. After I ripped a cd with Windows Media the songs couldn't be played on Foobar. Ripped them again with a different program and it played just fine.

 

[firefox360]

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Originally Posted by YamiTenshi Don't use Windows Media to rip music. It does something to the music so that it can't be played correctly on other players. After I ripped a cd with Windows Media the songs couldn't be played on Foobar. Ripped them again with a different program and it played just fine.

Well considering that Microsoft also makes their own DRM solutions and proprietary formats, you would expect that from them wouldn't you?

 

[DigDub]

thats why i love my ancient dvd-rom drive. i had the Life For Rent album by Dido and my newer CDR drive had major problems ripping it. there were a lot of errors which resulted in clicks and pops. then i put the cd in my trusty old dvd-rom drive and it ripped without a single error and faster too.

oh btw, disable autorun if you do not need the feature. disables the copyright crap and lowers chances of malware installation too.

 

[Csidinim]

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Originally Posted by catscratch Copyright protection is the way of the future. Get used to it. The record companies have lobbying power and money, and all we have are a few ingenious people trying to bypass whatever crap they decide to pull over us in order to stop their declining sales. I guess they never attributed the drop in sales to the decline in quality of their products. In the 70's we actually had good popular bands - Led Zep, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, I could go on. In the 60's, rock music was rock music, and not this garbage that we have now. In the 90's we had grunge, not the best necessarily, but definitely not the dark ages that the 70's were. And now we have... what? Rap? Hip-hop? Sorry, that's been commercialized and is now a mockery of everything that it had once stood for. Nu-metal? Name me one good popular nu-metal band. Pop? R'n'B? You've got to be kidding. The record industry needs to take a chance on some new talent instead of trying to put out the same garbage over and over and hope that it will sell as well as when it was still fresh and new. Instead, they try new schemes to wheedle money of their customers for the same junk over and over - and their schemes will work. They'll see to that.

That view is sort of naive and uninformed, no? There always was and has been popular junk music dominating over more refined, quality creations. And you may not see the characterizing trends of the present too easily, because you are still existing in it, you are being shaped and colored by it. You glorify the past with such nostalgic rage, but in about thirty years you will say the same thing about the present's present as you said about the present's past. Hindsight is always 20/20 and through a very biased lens.

 

[Csidinim]

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Originally Posted by vranswer AYE! No DRMation without representation!! Off with their heads!!

hehehe

(the big grin smiley= all teeth smiley. totally redundant redundant)

 

[vranswer]

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Originally Posted by DigDub thats why i love my ancient dvd-rom drive. i had the Life For Rent album by Dido and my newer CDR drive had major problems ripping it. there were a lot of errors which resulted in clicks and pops. then i put the cd in my trusty old dvd-rom drive and it ripped without a single error and faster too. oh btw, disable autorun if you do not need the feature. disables the copyright crap and lowers chances of malware installation too.

hmmph. Well, I may be at an advantage without even knowing it. Have been pretty pissed since buying this Dell computer that CDs inserted NEVER crank up any autoplay features. They just sit there, and I have to go to [right click][properties] to even get the drive to start looking at the disc. Might come in handy when all CDs have copy protection built in. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

 

[underdogg]

use realplayer, worked 4 me.