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Copy Protected CD

Hi I have bought a new album and am having a huge amount of trouble trying to burn a copy of it.  The reason why I want to burn a copy is I always use a burnt copy of my cd's I've bought, so they can get scratched and damaged while my originals stay in mint condition.

I have tried everything I know of.  Simple rippers like WMP, itunes, etc will not detect the cd at all.  Others like EAC, nero detect the cd and can encode the music but the encoded music as a silent spot like every two seconds when played.  I tried making a 1:1 copy with nero and that wouldn't work.

The cd comes with its own little playing program which is absolutely crap.  You can't choose your format, bitrate anything.

Is there a cd burner or ripper out there that would be able to get past the copy protection. If a standard cd player can thered surely be something I can do.  Any help would be great.

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Reply #1 –
It depends on the copy protection the CD has.  Most copy protected CDs released in the U.S. have used software copy protection where a software driver was installed on the computer that scrambled the audio data when it was ripped, however, the CDs were not physically altered.  Now I know that some copy protection in Europe has made physical changes to the CDs themselves to make PC CD-ROM/RW drives not read the CDs.

If you have a CD protected by software copy protection then the easiest way to rip the CD is to remove the driver it installed on your PC and then disable autorun to prevent the software from launching again and installing itself when you insert the audio CD again.

If the CD itself was altered in some way then I'm not sure how to get around that.  I have heard ripping some copy protected CDs with EAC in Burst Mode seems to work.  Also, Easy CD-DA Extractor claims to rip "copy protected" CDs but I have never been able to test that claim.

What is the artist's name, album name, and recording label it was released on?  Also what country was the CD purchased in?  This info can help narrow down what type of copy protection was used on the CD.

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Reply #2 –
Quote from: jimmy69 on
Others like EAC, nero detect the cd and can encode the music but the encoded music as a silent spot like every two seconds when played.

A Kings Of Leon CD did something similar to me a couple of years ago. The only fix I found at the time was to dig out my old PX 4/8/32A. The CDRom drive can be as much of a hinderence as the software with copy protected CDs. Can you try a different drive?
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Reply #3 –
The album is IMAGO from THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT.  I also live in Australia.  it's distributed by sony-bmg but I am pretty confident that sony's stupid copy protection thing which everyone hated never reached australia thank god.  Any way how do I check what drivers are on the computer and how do I disable autorun?

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Reply #4 –
I use AnyDVD.....never had any problems with copy-protected CDs since.

There is a freeware proggy that does similar things but can't remember what it's called.

Alternatively if you have a friend with linux get them to do you a copy.

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Reply #5 –
For any given copy control system, there are three kind of drives :

Drives that can't read a copy control CD, whatever software or OS is used,
Drives that can read copy control CDs with the help of some given software.
Drives that can read copy control CD like normal CD whatever software or OS is used.

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Reply #6 –
There are also drives which can read copy-protected CDs without problems, but will give inconsistent errors so test&copy is not an option. Thats the case with my Plextor 716a by example.

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Reply #7 –
Quote from: Raiden on
There are also drives which can read copy-protected CDs without problems, but will give inconsistent errors so test&copy is not an option. Thats the case with my Plextor 716a by example.

Inconsistent errors don't constitute problems???

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Reply #9 –
Autorun can be disabled quite easily by holding shift wile closing the CD tray.

Next, I believe AnyDVD is best for stripping the crap TOC and replacing it with a proper one virtually, so that any ripping program can use the CD like a normal one.

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Reply #10 –
I pretty sure that that sony bmg rootkit crap never reached australia.  Yes I downloaded Anydvd and EAC now reads the cd perfectly.

Thanx for all that.

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Reply #11 –
Quote from: jimmy69 on
The cd comes with its own little playing program which is absolutely crap.

Well even running that was probably a huge mistake.  That (or some other CD) HAS installed some malware driver onto your system, that is why you get the sound dropouts.

My recomendation is to disable autoplay completely, as it is just plain dangerous to leave enabled.
Also, do some research on the specific 'copy protection' that is on that CD and see what it really did to your PC (if anything).  You can also search for all files modified/created on your computer the date you first put that CD in, that will reveal any files it put into your system folders.

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It is my opinion that if you can't start your program's setup program manually (my computer, cdrom, etc.), then you shouln't be using a computer.  Autoplay is not a feature, it is an annoyance. 
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