I’ve tried everything! Daemontools, Alcohol, mounting+ripping mounted image, like ten different cd-ripping apps, easy cd-da extractor AND exact audio copy WON’T INSTALL ON MY PARTICULAR COMPUTER AND I DON’T KNOW WHY :confused:, and Audacity won’t record the sound signal if I play the cd on my computer though that idiotic inbuilt copycontrol-player. I’ve put the damn cd in my other, ten year old computer (20gb harddrive, 64mb ram, cd-rom read speed like 16x), it rips the tracks but THEY’RE DISTORTED…… The zillion ways I’ve tried to extract the audio from this cd has had the same result: audio is ripped, but distorted, aka UNUSABLE.
You know, I was even desperate enough to make a direct dopy of the cd, on which I then covered the outer edge with a black marker, to make the copy control data unreadable… but the sound was still distorted.
WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THE CD I PAID FOR LIKE A GOOD CITIZEN???
Piracy rules! As long as people are making legal music this difficult, I’m SOOO going to grab everything from demonoid. To start with, the files you get on demonoid is actually LISTENABLE….
Someone is out to get me. I know. Someone hates me. It’s all a huge conspiracy against me. :eye:
But I’m not getting the point here, are you not able to listen to it or can’t you rip the audio?
That’s why , if I wanna buy music, which happens rarely, I buy something I really like, and I buy it off the web via AAC files ,or normal LPs. Not copy protected. This technology is rather stupid . Thank luck that the genres I like dont exist in such disks lol.
I’m not ripping it to fileshare it. I want to rip it so that i can friggin’ LISTEN to it. Actually, I don’t even own a cd player, I listen to music from my hard drives or from my hd mp3 player. This is why I think the music industry has made such a huge mistake in copy control devices; many people simply don’t use cd:s anymore, as there are so many other, more convenient, ways to listen to music.
But I’m not getting the point here, are you not able to listen to it or can’t you rip the audio?
Both. See above.
Yeah I agree with you on this one. Unfortently I don’t know of any other ways to rip it
Disable Autorun: http://features.engadget.com/2004/06/29/how-to-tuesday-disable-autorun-on-windows/
(It’s a registry fix, plus you can turn it back on when you need it)
Disabling autorun will disable Window’s Autorun feature which will disable automatic code execution which will hopefully disable any protection software from running its ugly ass face. The registry editing in the link works for CD Rom drives; USB Devices/Removable Hard drives will still autorun when insterted, though I bet you can find registry guides to solve those if you think autorun is dangerous (I do).
However, if you already put your infected CD in, chances are that the copy protection software is still lurking on your computer. Either try to remove it, reformat your computer, or get another (non infected) computer to do the ripping.
MorgothErmis: Sorry for not replying to you, I just couldn’t think of an answer 🙂 I’ll think one up soon 🙂
omg yay 😀
That’s why , if I wanna buy music, which happens rarely, I buy something I really like, and I buy it off the web via AAC files ,or normal LPs. Not copy protected. This technology is rather stupid . Thank luck that the genres I like dont exist in such disks lol.
I didn’t know the cd even had copy protection when I bought it. Guess how (not so) happy I was when I found out… I don’t want to buy music off the web, because it’s always in mp3 or some other lossy format, and the very reason I bought the cd was that I could have the music in cd quality (or so I thought).
Sweden is good if you like cold, rain, the PAL region code, and having to pay the highest taxes in the world :laugh: (I love my country though)
Greece is good too 😀
Greece is good too 😀
You had me at cold and rain, but I lost interest with taxes. lol
But being Canadian, the taxes are nothing new, and the cold is something I’m used to. And right now GOD I can’t wait for winter to get here. I hate these hot, humid, and smoggy summers.
Yeah, just have that registry key ready to enable and disable; music CDs and movie DVDs love to shove crap on your computer right when load it in the CD/DVD ROM Drive. Try to "clean" your computer sooner or later, either by finding a tool to remove the protection software or just by reformating your hard drive (that has Windows OS on it [and backup your data, etc…]). If you remember the Sony Rootkit going around a while ago, it was completely avoidable by not allowing autorun feature from executing. It’s just one of those security flaws (or some might call it a "Feature") that Windows has that other people take advantage and exploit.
Greece is good too 😀
Greece has high taxes, high prices.
Low wages.
Very hot summers.
Very hot chicks.(i guess you aint interested, since you seem to be a gurl)
Stupid people (thats a worldwide phenomenon)
Low wages.
Doesn’t sound very fun…
Very hot summers.
This, however, sounds wonderful. I’m freezing right now.
Very hot chicks.(i guess you aint interested, since you seem to be a gurl)
You got that right.
Stupid people (thats a worldwide phenomenon)
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