13-03-2005 22:59									#1
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How?

This one cd seems intent on my not ripping it. It won't even show up on My Computer as being in the drive.

	13-03-2005 23:02									#2
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Must be some hardcore copy protection. Wonder how they expect you to play the CD at the computer?

	13-03-2005 23:06									#3
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I can't.

	13-03-2005 23:10									#4
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Have you tried Alcohol 120%? Its the only program I know of that will bypass copy protection and do actual 1:1 copies of CDs.

If you haven't try a google for it. You can get a demo that will work for a month I think.

And there's always e-mule too

	13-03-2005 23:12									#5
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This is damned annoying.

	13-03-2005 23:41									#6
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I guees you´ll have to do it the analogue way, then convert it to mp3. Ok, the sound quality won´t be spectacular, but that´s the only solution I can think of if you don´t find some kind of cracker for the copy protection...

	14-03-2005 00:01									#7
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http://www.alcohol-software.com/

	14-03-2005 00:01									#8
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Is there anything on the CD?

	14-03-2005 00:56									#9
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Yeah, I had this problem. I wanted to rip a Roy D Mercer CD (for my and only my personal use on this one computer), and it has one of those copy-protection things that uses Autoplay to immediately hide all the audio files on the CD when you try to play it on your PC.

Let me be the first to give a soaring eagle to whatever harebrained idiot thought this one up. ..|..

I guess the lesson learned is to keep Autoplay turned off. Lemme retry it with it off, see if that works.

EDIT; It works!

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	14-03-2005 01:18									#10
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Sollution: Don't buy cds.

	14-03-2005 01:47									#11
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The CD-Rom drive cannot read it, I don't know what sort of protection they use and some of the earlier ones were pretty easy to overcome.

In any case, try it under linux and see if it works. Don't know the name of the ripping program. I think it's "grip" or something like that.

	14-03-2005 01:50									#12
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Autoplay? Is that the "copy protection" that's foiled by holding down shift while you insert the CD?

Atahualpa: Yep, grip is pretty popular, though some people swear by abcde. And in case you want a raw copy of the CD, you just copy it to a file .

	14-03-2005 02:05									#13
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Alcohol 120%

Che: is it a music CD or something else?

	14-03-2005 02:16									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Ari Rahikkala Autoplay? Is that the "copy protection" that's foiled by holding down shift while you insert the CD? Atahualpa: Yep, grip is pretty popular, though some people swear by abcde. And in case you want a raw copy of the CD, you just copy it to a file .

Hard to copy it when the computer won't even recognize the CD contains data.

	14-03-2005 02:23									#15
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Could the CD itself be defective?

My favorite CD ripping tool is the chainsaw.

	14-03-2005 02:39									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin Hard to copy it when the computer won't even recognize the CD contains data.

If an audio player will recognize it, a cd-rom should do so as well. All you need is a driver.

	14-03-2005 03:24									#17
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I have a similar problem with my Filter - Title of Record album. It plays in all CD players, but the computer doesn't recognize it at all. I looked into it a while back and I read somewhere that you can just take a black magic marker to the inner circle of the CD and it'll fix it. I'm too chicken to try it though.

	14-03-2005 03:30									#18
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Would this be the security I heard some talk about about a year ago where holding shift down (or something equally easy) to make it possible to rip it? Don't see how this could help making the cd 'visible', so maybe there's just something wrong with the cd?

	14-03-2005 04:09									#19
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It was Depeche Mode: the Singles 86-98. It kept being a btich, then all the sudden, it worked, so I ripped it quick before it changed it's mind.

I thought it might be my cd-drive. I have an old Kenwood 52x Multibeam, which had a recall, but I didn't find out about it until too late. It works most of the time, but sometimes it's a pain.

That wasn't the problem, cus I also put the cd in my CD-RW drive, and it didn't work there. Then, for some reason, it started working in the Kenwood, so . . . it got ripped, and then it got sold.

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	14-03-2005 04:11									#20
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That's weird. I have that same CD and it works fine. I must have a different print or something.

PS. [grammar nazi]You spelled Depeche Mode wrong[/grammar nazi]

	14-03-2005 05:03									#21
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quote: It was Depeche Mode: the Singles 86-98.

	14-03-2005 06:55									#22
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Depeche Mode is great. I picked up all of their CDs a few years back when I was in Eastern Europe for $2 per CD.

	14-03-2005 06:56									#23
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ewww 80's music

	14-03-2005 07:35									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Sava ewww 80's music

I'm willing to bet you like Limp Bizkit. Therefore, your opinion counts for jack ****.