Hello, I've finally found another CD player and tested the CD in question. It played with no distortions! Therefore, the very frequent clicks, which I thought could be just clipping, are after all the results of playing a copy protected CD on a computer with digital playback :( I ripped it with cdparanoia, bnut cdparanoia found no errors, and the sound was the same as when playing on the computer. Of course I can borrow the CD player, take the analog output and re-degitize, or search for a computer with spdif in and player with spdif out. Are there any otehr ways of tackling the protection, so I can hear the music copy that I bought on the device of my choice? Yours, Mikhail Ramendik