Copy protected audio cd.

daveza

daveza

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A friend was given the new Matchbox 20 cd and asked if I could load it on his Ipod.

It seems there is some kind of protection running as it can't be ripped or copied.

There is nothing on the cd or booklet to advise there is protection.

I tried using Daniu media converter but it doesn't find any ' supported formats ' so I have no idea what protection it is.

Is it right that one cannot copy your own cd to Ipod and does anyopne know what protection is used here ?
 
daveza said:
A friend was given the new Matchbox 20 cd and asked if I could load it on his Ipod.

It seems there is some kind of protection running as it can't be ripped or copied.

There is nothing on the cd or booklet to advise there is protection.

I tried using Daniu media converter but it doesn't find any ' supported formats ' so I have no idea what protection it is.

Is it right that one cannot copy your own cd to Ipod and does anyopne know what protection is used here ?
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Try ISOBuster, it should work to rip the audio tracks to WAV files on your HDD. Then use WinLAME to encode them as MP3s.
 
stoke said:
They're encouraging you not to purchase CD's anymore.
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Yeah that's what it comes out as, although they actually want people to buy the CD for their Hi-Fi and car and buy the online version of the song from iTunes, Musica Online or PnP or whatever for their portable media player.

It's stupid eh.

BlindRead/BlindWrite and Alcohol 120% can also probably rip these corrupted session tracks.
 
If you can read it on computer you technically speaking should be able to copy it. Copy protection or not.
 
froot said:
If you can read it on computer you technically speaking should be able to copy it. Copy protection or not.
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Usual CD ripping apps can't rip 'broken' tracks or tracks hidden in multiple sessions. However, apps like ISOBuster can read anything.
 
'cdparanoia -B' under Linux will suck the wavs of any CD. There's a script called 'ripit' (it should be in the ubuntu repositories) will use cdparanoia, pull the titles from cddb, and encode to to the format of your choice. This will give you m4a files, ready for the iPod:

Code: 
ripit -o . -r 1 -c 3 -q 250

I have all the Matchbox20 CDs, and I ripped all of them with this method, except the last one, which iTunes happily handled (on a Mac).
 
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