New Audio CD's Can't be Read by PC

[Durham Fox]

Is anyone else having problems?

I bought quite a few CD's as xmas gifts, obviously I started trying to rip them all to my iTunes before I started wrapping them this morning but not one will read!

I've tried 3 laptops and a PC and none of them will read any of the CD's but all read older CD's. All the CD's read in several CD players.

Have they started using some sort of protection I am not aware of?

 

[spionfox]

Is anyone else having problems?

I bought quite a few CD's as xmas gifts, obviously I started trying to rip them all to my iTunes before I started wrapping them this morning but not one will read!

I've tried 3 laptops and a PC and none of them will read any of the CD's but all read older CD's. All the CD's read in several CD players.

Have they started using some sort of protection I am not aware of?

Did you disable autorun before putting them in your drive?

A while ago I recall seeing something about a form of copy-protection that was enabled when the disc was first read.

 

[Durham Fox]

No! Mental block! How to do I do that?

 

[spionfox]

No! Mental block! How to do I do that?

If you've already done it now then it may be too late. From memory I think you hold down the shift key when inserting the disc to stop autorun. (Assuming a Windows OS)

 

[SJN-Fox]

A bit late now, I know, but some CDs are designed not to run on computer CD drives. If you look carefully at the back of the disk, there is a band that runs round the CD about 6-8 mm in from the edge. This is ignored by audio CD players but stops computer drives playing them.

(Pink's Missundaztood is an example of this).

Apparently it can be 'disarmed' by carefully "colouring it in" with a black marker pen but I've never tried it.

 

[David Gwilliam]

I had this problem with a CD from EMI Gold which I purchased from Amazon Co.UK I complained to Amazon that there had been no mention of this on their webpage for the CD and they refunded the money.

 

[Joe_Fox]

It may be something to do with the DRM. See this article for help: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/...wmp-for-fairuse4wm-and-invalid-license-error/

 

[Macky]

It may be something to do with the DRM. See this article for help: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/...wmp-for-fairuse4wm-and-invalid-license-error/

That's to do with wma files, not CDs

 

[Durham Fox]

I had this problem with a CD from EMI Gold which I purchased from Amazon Co.UK I complained to Amazon that there had been no mention of this on their webpage for the CD and they refunded the money.

These were EMI CD's too.

 

[bocadillo]

I remember reading about this problem. What appear to be EMI CDs are not CDs at all. They don't even have the 'Compact Disc' logo on them because it would be illegal.

They are more like CD-ROMs and have two 'sessions', the first of which disables your computer's reading of the rest of the disk. The second 'session' contains the data for the actual music (or whatever) and, because an audio device (ordinary CD-player) doesn't recognise the first 'session', is read by that audio device and rendered in what seems like the usual way for a genuine CD.

I understand that a freeware application called AudioGrabber (or something is similar) is what you need.

 

[bocadillo]

I had this problem with a CD from EMI Gold which I purchased from Amazon Co.UK I complained to Amazon that there had been no mention of this on their webpage for the CD and they refunded the money.

Amazon will readily refund the money because they told you that they were selling you CDs when they weren't.

These were EMI CD's too.

No, they weren't.
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[Durham Fox]

Just checked them and they carry the name of some german laboratory.

 

[spionfox]

I remember reading about this problem. What appear to be EMI CDs are not CDs at all. They don't even have the 'Compact Disc' logo on them because it would be illegal.

Anybody else remember the controversy surrounding this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal

 

[bocadillo]

Anybody else remember the controversy surrounding this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_CD_copy_protection_scandal

I remember reading about this in relation to Sony discs in the past, but I would point out that I am not aware of any suggestion that EMI discs have similarly caused vulnerabilities in Windows systems.

 

[spionfox]

I remember reading about this in relation to Sony discs in the past, but I would point out that I am not aware of any suggestion that EMI discs have similarly caused vulnerabilities in Windows systems.

For the record, neither was I

 

[bocadillo]

For the record, neither was I

Good
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[Joe_Fox]

For the record, neither was I

That's pretty witty - I'd give it 33 out of 45.

 

[Blue Maniac]

That's pretty witty - I'd give it 33 out of 45.

:icon_lol: I'm loving the arbitrary nature of your posts.