Any suggestions re copy protection

Posted by: AndyH 54 on 10 March 2010

Hi All,
Any suggestions appreciated. I am gradually loading my Cd collection onto my new second hand HDX and have hit a snag with High by the Blue Nile which the HDX seems to rip, it accesses the data base and downloads the album artwork but when trying to play it back there is no sound. Next tried to just play the CD without ripping but it just skips through the tracks without playing them.
Did a bit of a browse on the internet and found that it is probably copy protected, thought I would contact the record company but they seem to have gone bust a few years ago so am feeling rather stuck.
Anyone got any helpful suggestions?

Andy

Posted on: 10 March 2010 by Steve Bull

Do you know anyone with a Mac who could burn you a copy? Even just using iTunes I've never had any copy-protected disc fail to import (though admittedly not tried this specific one). You could then import the copy into the HDX

Posted on: 10 March 2010 by bigfella

'High' burned into my iTunes without any problems so that's certainly an option.

John

Posted on: 10 March 2010 by Jay

I also have a copy of High that refuses to be ripped into iTunes or just plain copied. Not sure what it was. I just gave up!

Posted on: 10 March 2010 by Blueknowz

It's the only one of mine CDs I can't make a rip of for my iRiver B30.

Posted on: 10 March 2010 by pcstockton

try EAC, then Foobar.

Posted on: 10 March 2010 by Chris Murphy

Tunebite is a helpful piece of software in these situations.

Posted on: 13 March 2010 by AndyH 54

Thanks for your suggestions, looked at EAC but did not like the look of all the warnings from McAfee, and don't have a friend with a Mac.
So tried a new approach which I'm glad to sat did work. One of my children has an old Pioneer CD recorder which I hooked up to my old CD player which I knew would play High and made a recording that way. I have just put this recording into my HDX and it seems to have made a perfect copy - thank goodness.
I am grateful for your suggestions as they helped to put me on the right track - so to speak.
The other reason I am pleased is because this album - after not being too impressed when I first heard it - has grown into own of my most played and I would have been very disgruntled if I could not get it onto my HDX.

Posted on: 13 March 2010 by Aleg

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Originally posted by AndyH 54:
Thanks for your suggestions, looked at EAC but did not like the look of all the warnings from McAfee, and don't have a friend with a Mac.
So tried a new approach which I'm glad to sat did work. One of my children has an old Pioneer CD recorder which I hooked up to my old CD player which I knew would play High and made a recording that way. I have just put this recording into my HDX and it seems to have made a perfect copy - thank goodness.
I am grateful for your suggestions as they helped to put me on the right track - so to speak.
The other reason I am pleased is because this album - after not being too impressed when I first heard it - has grown into own of my most played and I would have been very disgruntled if I could not get it onto my HDX.

If you've got it from exactaudiocopy.de then there is no problem and the warnings are false positives by McAfee. Should try ESET that's a proper Virusscanner

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aleg

Posted on: 14 March 2010 by Rosewind

In the past I have used Audiograbber to rip my cds into Wav/Mp3 and Mediamonkey to rip into Flac. I have not had any disks that refused to be ripped.

Tunebite plays back the music and records it. So any copy protection is bypassed. That would be your last bet.

Macafees false positives are a nuisance - I have two programmes that are bothered: DvdShrink + EAC.

Best wishes,
Peter