Hello, Do the clicks appear random or do they come at a set interval (i.e. 30 seconds apart) or are they connected to the music (i.e. a crash cymbal)? Just to be sure, have you tried the CD on a normal CD player? Do you hear the clicks then? If not, then you could try to find a CD player with spdif output and, presuming you have spdif input on your computer, record the data digitally from a normal player. Sampo On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 23:59, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > Hello, > > Sampo Savolainen wrote: > > > You can probably play/rip it with cdparanoia 'enhanced' software. Your > > first and best tool for recovering data from copy protected or otherwise > > broken (so-called) CDs is to use the command line cdparanoia. > > Well, so I did: > > $ cdparanoia --verbose --batch "1-" > > It has ripped, reporting no errors, And the clicks still seem to be > there! > > Of course there's that chance that the clicks are actually a bad > recording, not copy protection. But it's not so likely; the recording is > not old (1997) and clains to use cool "20-bit recording" technology. > > Actually I did think at first that the "20-bit" are at fault; but the > HDCD logo is not present, so apparently this is just a mastrering > technique, and the disk is supposed to be an ordinary CD? > > Anyway, are there other tools to try and read it with error correction, > or perhaps cdparanoia options that I could have overlooked? > > Yours, Mikhail Ramendik > > > > > > "man cdparanoia" for details > > > > Sampo > > > > On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 14:03, Mikhail Ramendik wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I have purchased a CD that seems to be copy protected. When I play it, > > > using XMMS and digital playback, it's rather noisy/clicky. > > > > > > I'd still like to play it, either directly, or by reading to disk first. > > > As I understand, I need some software that would implement Reed-Solomon > > > correction, as done in usual CD players. Is any such software available? > > > Preferrably for Linux, of course. > > > > > > Yours, Mikhail Ramendik > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
