EMI copycontrol copy protection

2003-06-14 13:00:59

I live in Melbourne, Australia & had yet to be troubled by the new copy protection schemes being implemented until now, I purchased the Snoop Dogg's single "Beautiful" & found it had "Copy Controlled" protection.

Program = EAC V0.95 PB3

Cyber Drive 52x = Failed to detect CD
Plextor 24/10/40A = Failed to detect CD
Pioneer DVD-106 = First 3 tracks where detected as audio the next as data & there was also an unspecified 5th data track. The first 2 track ripped without errors but the 3rd showed "Unhandled exception, at ASPI32.3740 -> ASSIGN-RANGE"then EAC closes.

It comes with a software player which plays back 48kbps versions of all the tracks. I would guess the files are WMA+DRM files.

http://copycontrol.emi.com.au
copycontrol@emi.com.au

EMI copycontrol copy protection

Reply #1 – 2003-06-14 16:25:16

Did you insert the CD before or after EAC is started ? It is important that EAC is started before the CD is inserted, and that in "eac/general", "disable autostart when EAC is running" is checked. Then you can try the different TOC recovery methods.

EMI copycontrol copy protection

Reply #2 – 2003-06-15 00:12:07

Whoooogrrraaa.... I set my drive from MMC1 to MMC2 & now it detected & ripped all 4 tracks!!!

tanks Pio .

EMI copycontrol copy protection

Reply #3 – 2003-06-16 05:28:28

What type of copy protection does the CD have?

EMI copycontrol copy protection

Reply #4 – 2003-06-16 07:05:24

Sounds like CDS200 behaviour to me.
Same as Radiohead's and Blur's new albums in Mexico (in fact, here EMI is the only label using this technology)
I had no problem with my LiteOn, other than it taking awfully long (0.7-1x ripping speed, first row of error correction lighting up constantly) it recognized the correct times of the audio tracks and a data track on the end. Ripped flawlessly, "no errors ocurred".
On my second drive, a generic DVD 10x drive that came with my computer, I have to manually detect TOC first. The times are off with those reported by the LiteOn by 1-2 frames for each track. After this, I made an image and cue sheet (this drive rips, also flawlessly, at 4x) and then I changed the cue sheet with one made by the LiteOn (I assumed that since the LiteOn always detects the TOC those values are the "right" ones). Burned a backup. Mounted image on Daemon Tools and made MP3s.
So, I definitely don't like this protection sh*t, and I normally wouldn't buy such CDs, but since these are two of my favorite bands and since my hardware seems to handle them, I went for it.