Mundane Music Question

[axebahia]

I was playing with my occasional toy, and trying to record from a CD to my mini disk player (the best for long flights) but for the first time, the Sony Open MPEG Jukebox did not recognize the CD as an audio CD. When I checked, the CD, it said that it was "copy controlled." I have not seen that before. Has this happened to you? Is it a trend? Can it be circumvented?

[Guest LG320126]

>I was playing with my occasional toy, and trying to record

>from a CD to my mini disk player (the best for long flights)

>but for the first time, the Sony Open MPEG Jukebox did not

>recognize the CD as an audio CD. When I checked, the CD, it

>said that it was "copy controlled." I have not seen that

>before. Has this happened to you? Is it a trend? Can it be

>circumvented?

 

 

Well it could be either circumvented or uncircumvented, in which case you could still cut it but chances are it would never play the same again. ;-)

[Guest Dan]

>I was playing with my occasional toy, and trying to record

>from a CD to my mini disk player (the best for long flights)

>but for the first time, the Sony Open MPEG Jukebox did not

>recognize the CD as an audio CD. When I checked, the CD, it

>said that it was "copy controlled." I have not seen that

>before. Has this happened to you? Is it a trend? Can it be

>circumvented?

 

Sounds to me like a Zionist conspiracy!

 

Dan Dare

LA, CA

[Guest Dan]

>I was playing with my occasional toy, and trying to record

>from a CD to my mini disk player (the best for long flights)

>but for the first time, the Sony Open MPEG Jukebox did not

>recognize the CD as an audio CD. When I checked, the CD, it

>said that it was "copy controlled." I have not seen that

>before. Has this happened to you? Is it a trend? Can it be

>circumvented?

 

Sounds to me like a Zionist conspiracy!

 

Dan Dare

LA, CA

[axebahia]

>Sounds to me like a Zionist conspiracy!

 

The thought had crossed my mind!

[+ Hoover42]

There is a good chance that the copy protection can be circumvented. It is done by taking a black magic marker and running it around the outer 1/8" to 1/4" of the CD (on the silver side).

 

If you search Google you should find a more detailed explanation of this work-around.

[axebahia]

>There is a good chance that the copy protection can be

>circumvented. It is done by taking a black magic marker and

>running it around the outer 1/8" to 1/4" of the CD (on the

>silver side).

 

I am 2 for 2 in greating great advice this week - first cheap on-line escorts in Berlin and now ways to circumvent copy-controlled cds. I guess I should try my luck for lottery predictions next!:-)

[axebahia]

>There is a good chance that the copy protection can be

>circumvented. It is done by taking a black magic marker and

>running it around the outer 1/8" to 1/4" of the CD (on the

>silver side).

 

Actually, my computing friend advised me that you can destroy the cd and cd player's laser by doing that. In the end, I now use WinMX software to download the music. I even found the same offbeat Brazilian cd on-line so the record companies still lose!