Hallo, Maarten de Boer hat gesagt: // Maarten de Boer wrote: > A collegue of mine just bought the new Radio Head CD, Hail To The Thief. > As the box says, this CD is "Copy Controlled". Some searching on the web > revealed that it using so called Cactus Data Shield 200 protected, which > means deliberate errors on the cd, that most (not all!) CD players deal > with correctly, but cd-rom readers don't. Hey, you are even lucky. Here in Germany almost every domestic CD by a major label now has some kind of copy control. Normally I just don't buy these, I even pay a higher price for the imported vinyl version. But then Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout made his first solo album which is just unearthly beautiful and as a big PS fan I had to buy the copy destroyed CD version because there is no vinyl one. I didn't bother trying to rip it and put it straight away in my old Sony hifi player. Now guess what happened: The first track which is about 25 minutes long and the center piece in the whole album is badly distorted and sounds like a non-patched Linux kernel giving only xruns! And this in a standard mass produced CD player by Sony! I cannot even give the CD back, because as a collector I just need to *have* it. :( My only chance was trying to rip it and indeed cdparanoia managed to produce clean sounding wav files which I reburned to CD. With things like this it's no wonder the music industry is going down. They are mistreating their paying good-willing customers. I didn't post high quality ogg files of the album into a p2p network, but I was very much tempted to do just that. ciao -- Frank Barknecht _ ______footils.org__
