WHY??!! WHY IS THERE A STUPID COPY FUCKING CONTROL THINGY ON MY CD???? >:O

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:

Why there is a copy control on your cd? It's because the company don't want you to rip and distribute the music.

But I'm not getting the point here, are you not able to listen to it or can't you rip the audio?

because the makers of this technology are stupid, just like some Apple people (http://img.photoamp.com/pa/07/09/21/BGvUVVlz.JPG). I still cannot figure out why there is a "gapless" shit in itunes, and why it is problematic, or why I cant friggin stop it permanently. Oh, and I forgot, it doesnt work .
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.

Why there is a copy control on your cd? It's because the company don't want you to rip and distribute the music.
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.

wow teblad u didnt reply to me and i feel veery sad:-(

[QUOTE=teblad;883299] 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.


Yeah I agree with you on this one. Unfortently I don't know of any other ways to rip it

I listen to music from my gramophone .

Well, there's always a last resort effort. Does the CD play? Simple enough question? I know, kind of sounds stupid. If it's just the inability to copy, then an alternate solution could be a live recording. Either use a Winamp output to convert it to wav or mp3, and if that doesn't work, just play the CD in any media player and run a live wav recorder like Nero Wave Editor. It's long and it sucks, plus the quality won't be CD exact, but NWE has never let me down yet.

The moment you insert your infected (or "protected music") CD into your computer, Window's Autorun feature will read the autorun.inf file which tells Windows what to run. In the case of music CDs, music companies use the Autorun feature to run the antipiracy software right off the CD, thus not allowing you to copy/record.

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.

Sliat: I shall try NWE, thanks. I tried Audacity but it wouldn't even sense the audio signal.

MorgothErmis: Sorry for not replying to you, I just couldn't think of an answer :) I'll think one up soon :)

MorgothErmis: Sorry for not replying to you, I just couldn't think of an answer :) I'll think one up soon :)
omg yay :-D

REX84: Sigh..... Didn't work. But thanks anyway. I shall try that trick on another (uninfected) computer, when I can access one...

because the makers of this technology are stupid, just like some Apple people (http://img.photoamp.com/pa/07/09/21/BGvUVVlz.JPG). I still cannot figure out why there is a "gapless" shit in itunes, and why it is problematic, or why I cant friggin stop it permanently. Oh, and I forgot, it doesnt work .
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).

i see . thanks teblad.Sweden is good .Never been there though

i see . thanks teblad.Sweden is good .Never been there though

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 :D

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 :D

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.

REX84: Sigh..... Didn't work. But thanks anyway. I shall try that trick on another (uninfected) computer, when I can access one...

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.

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 :D

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)

Greece has high taxes, high prices.
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)
LOL LOL LOL

Is this an international thread?

I still cannot figure out why there is a "gapless" shit in itunesThere is gapless "shit" in iTunes for the concert-type albums. I'm not sure there is even a way to stop it, and I have had no problems with it, so I'm not even going to fight it. Just a waste of time. I'd rather buy my stuff legally than rip it for others. Rules are different for stuff which will never be in stores.

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).I recommend Apple Lossless or Atrac3plus.

[QUOTE=teblad;883257]WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO BE ABLE TO LISTEN TO THE CD I PAID FOR LIKE A GOOD CITIZEN???QUOTE]Use the CD you paid for in a CD player you paid for. Simple as that.:smrt:

I listen to music from my gramophone .

LOL