TonyTripleA
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I was torn as to posting here or in the music forum but you guys are the portable audio experts so I throw my question to your intellects.
Copy protection has finally got me frustrated to the point where I returned Joss Stone's new album. I simply could not do with it what I wanted... that is load it to my I-pod.
Inserting the disk in my computer (pretty standard near new with an XP operating system) it loads its own player menu from the CD. So far so good. One button even says "copy to computer?". Since explorer showed no WAV files at all, this menu button is where I started. Shock, all it did was copy some pre-made WMA files to my computer. Hmmm, no hi res audio being copied here I suggest from the file sizes. Worse still, no choice of WAV or lossless. Forget AAC.
Interestingly the CD has two very obviously separated recorded sections you can see on the disk. But for the life of me I could not find the WAV files using explorer.
So back to the shop Joss Stone went. Sad, as I actually liked the album. The real problem the industry is going to create is that for me a pirate CD is a better deal at an even higher price than the original... Not that I support pirate CDs but the logic of the manufacturer is ridiculus - someone other than I might be tempted to go to the dark side and support some pirate. Its a bit like DVD copyright warnings. I'll pay more NOT to have them but I can choose to pay less from a pirate and avoid them altogether. One Fox DVD I bought (a Simpsons DVD) had the copyright in 9 different languages that took three and a half minutes to run... wow, needless to say my kids had left the room by then...
I'm getting distracted. But the essence of my point is that these blatent disregards for consumers will force some to give up on copy protected products. I feel it could well be me!
Any tips on how to pay for an album and then actually use it on my i-pod.
Cheers,
TonyAAA
Copy protection has finally got me frustrated to the point where I returned Joss Stone's new album. I simply could not do with it what I wanted... that is load it to my I-pod.
Inserting the disk in my computer (pretty standard near new with an XP operating system) it loads its own player menu from the CD. So far so good. One button even says "copy to computer?". Since explorer showed no WAV files at all, this menu button is where I started. Shock, all it did was copy some pre-made WMA files to my computer. Hmmm, no hi res audio being copied here I suggest from the file sizes. Worse still, no choice of WAV or lossless. Forget AAC.
Interestingly the CD has two very obviously separated recorded sections you can see on the disk. But for the life of me I could not find the WAV files using explorer.
So back to the shop Joss Stone went. Sad, as I actually liked the album. The real problem the industry is going to create is that for me a pirate CD is a better deal at an even higher price than the original... Not that I support pirate CDs but the logic of the manufacturer is ridiculus - someone other than I might be tempted to go to the dark side and support some pirate. Its a bit like DVD copyright warnings. I'll pay more NOT to have them but I can choose to pay less from a pirate and avoid them altogether. One Fox DVD I bought (a Simpsons DVD) had the copyright in 9 different languages that took three and a half minutes to run... wow, needless to say my kids had left the room by then...
I'm getting distracted. But the essence of my point is that these blatent disregards for consumers will force some to give up on copy protected products. I feel it could well be me!
Any tips on how to pay for an album and then actually use it on my i-pod.
Cheers,
TonyAAA