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[Drey1082]

is there any way to rip copy protected cds? I just bought the new modest mouse cd and started to rip it into itunes, just to find out that all the tracks have strange skipping in them. When i play the cd in a cd player, it works just fine. Is there any program that will let me still rip the disk into mp3?

 

[Wario64]

I hear CDex works fine

 

[Drey1082]

cool, i'll try it, thanks

 

[Diablos]

CDex is your friend.

 

[StrikerObi]

I ripped the Modest Mouse CD no problem in iTunes. Maybe it's your drive?

 

[Drey1082]

maybe, i bought two cds that day (modest mouse, and postal service) and postal service ripped fine in itunes. So I assumed it was the disk.

 

[StrikerObi]

maybe, i bought two cds that day (modest mouse, and postal service) and postal service ripped fine in itunes. So I assumed it was the disk.

Maybe it's just your disc.

 

[aparisi2274]

I just picked up the new VR CD, and it is also copy protected. I tried ripping it in iTunes, and I get that damn skipping, which is the protection. Then I used CDex, and I still get the same skipping. Anyone know if there are any settings I need to tweak in CDex for it to work properly.

Thanks.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

I just picked up the new VR CD, and it is also copy protected. I tried ripping it in iTunes, and I get that damn skipping, which is the protection. Then I used CDex, and I still get the same skipping. Anyone know if there are any settings I need to tweak in CDex for it to work properly.

Thanks.

that explains the data track when I ripped the album in cdex. as far as I can tell, I didn't have any problems in windows media or cdex ripping it. (Velvet Revolver, that is)

EDIT: I have autorun turned off on the cdrive I use to rip cd's, so maybe that's an option?

 

[8bit]

If CDex doesn't work, try poikosoft.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

I was listening to the VR CD in my truck yesterday and noticed that it skips like crazy. Is this part of the copy-protection? It's rather annoying that ripping the cd was easier than listening to it is.

 

[Drey1082]

I was listening to the VR CD in my truck yesterday and noticed that it skips like crazy. Is this part of the copy-protection? It's rather annoying that ripping the cd was easier than listening to it is.

I was reading about copy protection the other day, and it seems that what they do is make the cd with a lot of imperfections. When played in a normal cd player, the errors are accounted for, and corrected, since cd players have an automatic way of error correcting. Cd-rom drives, for the most part, either do not have this error correction, or can't correct it while ripping cds. Maybe your truck cd player is older and doesn't have this error correction? I doubt that's the case, but didn't the riaa get sued because they made a copy protected cd that wouldn't play in some cd players? Now i think if a cd is copy protected, it usually has the symbol in the case, or doesn't have the compact disc logo, as to protect itself from lawsuits.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

the cdplayer is rather new, maybe 1 1/2 years old. and that RIAA case is what I was thinking of when it kept skipping. ah well, their loss. I am going to burn the mp3's to cd along with Modest Mouse and Franz Ferdinand and listen to them on my cd player (it does mp3 as well) and sell the cd's back to FYE.

to the original poster: my Modest Mouse isn't copy-protected, though there may be some versions that are.

 

[Winged Creature]

I got velvet revolver album and Music Match ripped it fine. Do all copy protected cd's use the same technology or are they different for every cd.


Edit: Music Match has to be open prior to loading the cd