The new Sheryl Crow CD has some kind of copy protection according to this article.
linky
The only thing that caused me to research it was I downloaded a few songs from the cd and found many of them to be missing the beginning/ends of the songs. This was from multiple sharers, multiple bitrates, multiple songs etc. So I did some searching and found several articles about upcoming copy protection. It says you CAN listen to it in a cdrom, but it supposedly has some technology to prevent it from ripping it to your hard drive.
I never buy cd's anymore since I have broadband and I am boycotting the record industry until prices get reasonable and this copy protection crap goes by the wayside. But, I bought this cd since this Sheryl is from my hometown and I like her music. Plus, i was VERY eager to see how this "copy protection" worked. Well, strangely enough, my older 52x crdrom had trouble reading the songs. But my 32x Liteon burner did not. At first, I tried ripping the songs to my hard drive via analogue with Music Match. So it was just playing to sound card via audio molex and then being ripped at 192k in real time by Music Match. This worked for some songs but others had to start over several times.
So i figured, if its having trouble with this, then SURELY it wont let me do direct cd audio to mp3 conversion, but it did. My older 52x burner had a REALLY hard time ripping the mp3's, it ripped them at like 1.5x when music match normally rips them at 8-9x the actual song speed. However, my liteon ripped them at a blistering 15x!! NO errors were audible on the ripped songs. They sound great at 192k.. So whatever this copy protection is, its pretty weak and only effects some cdroms.
linky
linky
The only thing that caused me to research it was I downloaded a few songs from the cd and found many of them to be missing the beginning/ends of the songs. This was from multiple sharers, multiple bitrates, multiple songs etc. So I did some searching and found several articles about upcoming copy protection. It says you CAN listen to it in a cdrom, but it supposedly has some technology to prevent it from ripping it to your hard drive.
I never buy cd's anymore since I have broadband and I am boycotting the record industry until prices get reasonable and this copy protection crap goes by the wayside. But, I bought this cd since this Sheryl is from my hometown and I like her music. Plus, i was VERY eager to see how this "copy protection" worked. Well, strangely enough, my older 52x crdrom had trouble reading the songs. But my 32x Liteon burner did not. At first, I tried ripping the songs to my hard drive via analogue with Music Match. So it was just playing to sound card via audio molex and then being ripped at 192k in real time by Music Match. This worked for some songs but others had to start over several times.
So i figured, if its having trouble with this, then SURELY it wont let me do direct cd audio to mp3 conversion, but it did. My older 52x burner had a REALLY hard time ripping the mp3's, it ripped them at like 1.5x when music match normally rips them at 8-9x the actual song speed. However, my liteon ripped them at a blistering 15x!! NO errors were audible on the ripped songs. They sound great at 192k.. So whatever this copy protection is, its pretty weak and only effects some cdroms.
linky