Copy Controlled CDs...

[tonym]

I'm sure that the more technologically aware board members out there will be able to give me an answer to this one either along the lines of: no way José or yes, you do it like this....

Q. Can I upload my recent batch of RVGs onto my iPod (via iTunes, or other if necessary)?

I've tried and it only allows me to 'play' the album.

Am I missing something really obvious here or are they resistant to copy?

Help. The least listened to albums in my collection, ie. newest, aren't able to go portable.

Thanks.

[couw]

the problem seems to be that Apple CD drives read the data tracks first. The data track fools the machine into thinking there is no music on the disk besides the compressed stuffs. You will need to make the drive skip the TOC of the data tracks. I haven't got a mac myself, but read some stories about the bogus TOC being on the outer rim of the CD, whereas the actual TOC of the music CD is on the inner rim. Blackening the outer rim with feltpen or tape should block that bogus TOC from being read and the drive would look for other TOCs and find the okay one near the centre.

Never done this, really. My PC drive recognises the correct TOC as well.

[A Lark Ascending]

I'd not noticed any problem with Copy Controlled CDs until I bough a few classical releases from EMI Spain whilst in Spain this summer.

I had my CD walkperson with me, one that also plays CD-RWs. The sound was poor to dire...and then at random points the stream of music was interrupted. On the display it actually said 'oops'!

CDs played fine on my home CD player when I got back!

Edited September 10, 2004 by Bev Stapleton

[Shrdlu]

One thing you could do, Tony, is to feed the RVGs in analog mode into your computer using Musicmatch, if this is possible with an iPod (I have no idea what that is). On my PC (non Apple) I downloaded a different cdfs.vxd file and that overcame the block that protected CDs have - I did this not to do burns, but so that my daughter could play her CDs on the computer while she is in talk rooms online. I will not purchase any protected CDs after the reports that I have heard.

[Man with the Golden Arm]

So I just received my first "Copy Controlled" CD from The Bastards. Blue Note EMI Italy. Nicola Conte 'Other Directions' (a sometime sucker for that BN sounding acid jazz or whatever it is but that's not the point, though that 'Jet Sounds' of his was good and it spun off a bunch of lesser stuff fer sure).

Well it seems that this stuff don't work. Ripped it onto my Mac OSX and wasted a CDR just to see. All sounds fine ... no glitches... nothin'. So what's the CC doing here as I have no idea how to go about busting through it other than burning it like a regular disc?

The only thing it might have done is lay down a bunch of really sappy vocals (why couldn't they have been in portuguese?) overtop of some really tremendous music.

[Shrdlu]

On the display it actually said 'oops'!