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Strazos
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on: April 23, 2005, 05:26:39 PM

I have about 10 import albums from Europe. I would like to rip the albums so I could put them on whatever player I decide to buy...

Problem is, they have some kind of copyright protection that basically locks up my system until I eject the disc. Ideas?

Granted, the artist whose CD I am trying to rip now has an online mp3 store....but I'll be damned if I buy all those tracks again, after I paid dearly to import them in the first place.

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Reply #1 on: April 23, 2005, 06:28:20 PM

If it happens automatically when you load the cd you could turn off autoplay by either going into windows explorer and right clicking on the cd drive, going to the autoplay tab and choosing "no action" for music files and music cd.  Or you could also just hold down the shift key while the cd is slid into the computer and keep holding shift until it is loaded.

If it happens when you try to rip then I don't know, try another ripper.
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Reply #2 on: April 25, 2005, 12:07:51 PM

Yeah I know how bad this sucks since every CD made in germany bears some kind of copy protection nowadays. I always used http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/ for those CDs but it hasn't been updated for over a year now. The author was german but since circumventing copy protection has been made a felony over here he won't be updating it.

If you have access to a linux box I'd reccommend using the cd ripping facilities there if none of these tools will rip the CD you can't extract the audio at all (I have two copy protected cd's here where this is the case)

hope that helps

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Reply #3 on: April 25, 2005, 01:38:34 PM

This is why I buy vinyl. It sounds better, too. The husboyfriend and I are in the process of figuring out which cable with which we need to loop the receiver into the puter.

I know, not really addressing Strazos' problem, but whatevs. Vinyl has so few issues if treated with respect.  smiley

And you can find weird shit that's never made it to CD.

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