anti ripping protection on new cds
i just bought the new adema cd 'unstable'. as i do with all the cds i buy, i tried ripping it so that i could add it to my mp3 collection. but it has a new thing where the files are "protected" and it won't let me rip them properly. the files copy but it plays very distorted. i am able to copy the songs to my hard drive through the program on the cd, but they only play in windows media player (i ordered a powerbook, but it hasn't come yet, so i'm still on windows). and i want to use winamp, but it won't let me. is there anyway to get around the file protection? would i need to use a special program for this?
-seth
-seth
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-seth
then exchange that one.
then exchange that one. keep doing that until you get a CD of theirs that is not defective. since you won't, you'll just keep sending them back until they give you a refund. it should also help retailers know they don't want to carry these lame ass crippled cd's.
-seth
Originally posted by iBrowse
Well I'm glad you returned it alright, but I'm sorry you didn't get the album you wanted. \ It is completely ridiculous to think that I'd want to own an album that I could only listen to in WMP. Maybe they have it on iTMS? Then you could at least get it on your PowerBook when it comes.
They do. It's $9.99 for the cd. Get it from there and burn all the cds you want. Distribute them to friends who can't get iTMS and say "screw you" to the RIAA. Damn bastards.
I buy a CD, I'm going to listen to it in iTunes and on my iPod.
Originally posted by seth
it's actually legit. they're trying to do this to all the cds. right now this protection thing is in a testing phase. but they are trying to expand it to all the music media out there.
Totally FUBAR.
Originally posted by torifile
They do. It's $9.99 for the cd. Get it from there and burn all the cds you want. Distribute them to friends who can't get iTMS and say "screw you" to the RIAA. Damn bastards.
iTMS is all groovy and that, but what if he wants to rip the CD he bought as an AIFF and listen to it the way it's actually supposed to sound?
Damn bastards indeed, though. With you on that.
Originally posted by Not Unlike Myself
I didn't know anyone still bought cds.....
I'm one of the guys who downloads what I need to to discern if I LIKE the music. Then if I think I might enjoy the CD, I will buy it. This is how the system should work. I don't get forced into buying something I've never heard, and the musicians don't get scammed because I buy nothing. And the record label gets to rake me over the coals with their inflated CD prices (even via Amazon), but not nearly as often as they used to.
Perfect.
Haven't been in a record store in... hell since before '99.
To me all 'new' music is dead. It gets chewed and recycled so fast that I see no point in spending more then $5 for the used copy a week after it comes out. iTMS is awsome. Amen for a new tomm. where I can get *ALL* the music I want through them.