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Ugh, bought a "content protected" CD

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cchen

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This sucks... the player on the cd crashes my computer....

Any way to rip the music from the cd? Its a Sony BMG disc....
 
well i use windows media player to rip everything lossless and everything put out by EMI canada now has copy control on it... so to do it in that program you'd go into settings, devices, properties of your cd-rom drive, and uncheck the error correction.

or maybe you can use the sharpie trick.
 
but your first mistake was installing the software that came on the cd.

the copy protection BS works by introducing intentional errors in the data. this is completely against red book standards so that's why you'll find no 'compact disc digital audio' markings on it. the drives will usually quietly interpolate the samples surrounding the error so you won't hear anything, but when the drive reports back to the software "hey i found an error here (and here, and here, and here, and here, ad infinitum)", is when things start fvcking up.
 
Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
Originally posted by: cchen
Originally posted by: Tab
Disable the auto-run? Try that.
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huh?? to play the cd.... u have to use the player on the cd
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no
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???

1. Will this disc play on my computer?

Yes. This disc is compatible with both PC and Mac.

PC Users: When listening to music directly off the disc, you must use the player provided on the disc. Attempting to play the audio on the disc (while the disc is spinning in the computer drive) with another player (i.e. Windows Media Player, Real Player, iTunes) will result in distorted sound.
 
There's a few ways to bypass that.

1. Just download it off the internet to begin with. If it's loseless, it's the exact same as your CD anyway.
2. Stop using windows. For a quick fix, boot into Knoppix, rip it from there, and go back to windows.
 
Originally posted by: Vertimus
There's a few ways to bypass that.

1. Just download it off the internet to begin with. If it's loseless, it's the exact same as your CD anyway.
2. Stop using windows. For a quick fix, boot into Knoppix, rip it from there, and go back to windows.
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heh, tried to find it online but couldn't... that's the only reason that i bought it
 
ugh i don't think anyone here understands that this is a NEW copyright protection scheme..... it won't play in any other player
 
Originally posted by: cchen
ugh i don't think anyone here understands that this is a NEW copyright protection scheme..... it won't play in any other player
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It still has to be on the disc in a file, in a format that is recognizeable as audio by a standard CD player.
 
Originally posted by: cchen
ugh i don't think anyone here understands that this is a NEW copyright protection scheme..... it won't play in any other player
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Not really. Same s%$#, different name. It's probably the ol' cd3 scheme with some information on the disc to cow consumers into using the player on the disc, which undoubtably installs some manner of DRM stuff. The "distortions" are also undoubtably one-bit errors which throw CD-Roms off. A ripper like CDex should be able to compensate with the proper settings. (e.g. Error Correction off)

I also like the Knoppix idea. Some good utilities on that.
 
Originally posted by: yukichigai
Originally posted by: cchen
ugh i don't think anyone here understands that this is a NEW copyright protection scheme..... it won't play in any other player
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Not really. Same s%$#, different name. It's probably the ol' cd3 scheme with some information on the disc to cow consumers into using the player on the disc, which undoubtably installs some manner of DRM stuff. The "distortions" are also undoubtably one-bit errors which throw CD-Roms off. A ripper like CDex should be able to compensate with the proper settings. (e.g. Error Correction off)

I also like the Knoppix idea. Some good utilities on that.
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nope... didn't work, even with error correction off....
 
I don't see how it is possible for an audio Cd player to play a cd flawlessly, but a cd-rom will fail to 😕 The error correction is all in the hardware, not the software, isn't it?
 
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