Is this EVEN POSSIBLE? Thanks in ahead of time

[jodokast5300]

Okay here's the deal. I"m sure you guys all know Music Match by now and rip cds to your computer all the time right? I know I do it like everyday whenever I borrow my friend's cd. Anyhow here's basically what went down:

1. I borrow a few of my dad's cds (soundtrack of Cinema Paradiso, fireworks - classic music)
2. I rip them all to my computer - they sound great. I return cds back to my dad.
3. My dad tries to play the cds I used on his DVD player. They don't work anymore!! ;-(
4. I try Cinema Paradiso on my soundtrack - an cd that's actually quite old, recorded awhile back anyhow. Doesn't work anymore......
5. I tried it on my DVD player, a newer DVD player than my dad's and the cd plays fine.

.......all the CDS are dust-free, scratch-free yet won't play in my computer or my dad's older DVD player which plays like everything. :-(
What could be happening? This something new from musicmatch? Or something implemented by an older cd technology?

Is something like this even possible?. THanks for anything you can give me!!

 

[Nothinman]

Regular CDs aren't writable by CDRW drives, it's possible, although very improbable, that MM would do something to CDRW media after it rips it.

Anyway, I know Anandtech frowns upon software piracy and I'm sure they don't condone stealing music either.

 

[CTho9305]

your drive might have damaged the CDs (scratch), you might have scratched them, or the reader might have died in a strange coincidence.

 

[LordMagnusKain]

<< Is something like this even possible?. >>



short answer no, long answer yes, with a but.
*ok enough with the simpsons quotes*

Short: *most verry likely*

No, not pocible, it was a coincadence

Long: *not to likely, but fun to think about*


two pociblitys, both henge on one central peace of knowledge, wich explanes why it would work in one but not the other, so we'll start with that:

cd-players, computers, DvD romdrives.. whatever.. they all have some hardware and some software used for reading and decoding the digital information on a CD *well duh*, this hareware is not all of equal quality in regards to ablity to standup to ether ware&tare or loss of data integrity on the CD.
Thus your dad's DvD and your systm may be of older les capable quality than the newer DvD that can read the CD.

so now on to the 2 pocibilitys:

first: it could be *and is most likely* that during the riping process there was dust or a shake or somethign that caused the CD to get invisibly scratched.

second *even more unlikely*: tho it's not suposed to hapen for a long time, the metal surface of the cd *wich is almost completly exposed on the top of the CD* does adventualy brake down, ether from ware n tare, or from the entropy that consumes all matter in the univerce. thus a speratic read from the CD going much faster than a CD is normaly played, may have caused some eroded data on the CD and thus it's only playable when you have a CD player that's not to old and of a higher quality hardware.

oh, and i aplogize for my seplling and pocible gramer mistakes, i can't use spellcheckers, they tend to cause me to spell worse.

 

[flot]

No. This is a complete and total coincidence.