Copy Protected CDs and iPod
Today I was at the mall. At the music store, to be exact. I didn't purchase a CD because it had some copy protection label. I was afraid I wasn't gonna be able to rip the songs onto my iPod.
Can it be done? I've read that the copy protection can be disabled by just hitting the "shift" key while the CD loads. Has anyone bought this kind of disc? Has anyone succesfully ripped songs onto an iPod under these circumstances?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Can it be done? I've read that the copy protection can be disabled by just hitting the "shift" key while the CD loads. Has anyone bought this kind of disc? Has anyone succesfully ripped songs onto an iPod under these circumstances?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Comments
Originally posted by benzene
Wasn't this something you could defeat with a magic marker? Or have I just been out of circulation too long?
i had always heard something about putting a piece of tape on the cd...? never understood it, but i had heard that.
--Just wondering...
On a "copy-protected" CD (oh wait, they're not CDs) the first track is basically mangled binary garbage. For your average CD player, it just skips over the stuff. However, computers try and read it and volia, have problems. (It even crashes some machines I'm told) The magic marker trick is to black out that first pseudo-track. How you can get that accurate with just a magic marker is still confusing to me.
Originally posted by benzene
How you can get that accurate with just a magic marker is still confusing to me.
i guess you have to do it very carefully
Originally posted by bunge
I buy a lot of music, but I refuse to buy copy protected CDs. I buy a LOT of CDs. A LOT. Ignore the protected ones simply on principle.
a wise decision
OR buy your music through some wellknown fruitshop though.
Originally posted by BeigeUser
I discovered that it has a lot to do with the drive in your computer. My PM G4 with a Toshiba 1312 (Combo drive) frequently has trouble reading Copy Protected Discs. The PMG4 at my workplace has a Sony CRX-140 (CD-RW drive) which reads most discs but occasionally gets stumped. My old PM G3 (CD-ROM drive), which I no longer own, had no problems reading anything.
Yes indeed, it seems *they* are all working altogether, thoroughly.