Cds with this anti copying technolgy, loopholes?

[longford]

:mad:

i mean i buy the flipping cd then i cant listen to it on me pod does me head in...

there must be a way.

Thanks in advance for your help

[stasyna]

Well i have a LG drive, and it is able to rip any "copy-protected" cd. Supposidly it is not able to read it.

There's many ways to get the CD on your HDD.
You can do a Line-In copy. Into cooledit or similar program.

Try isobuster, or alcohol 120% to make an image of the CD, that could possibly work. Then mount the image in daemon-tools.

Another way, which i have not tested or even considered which supposidly worked on several of the EU discs, is to get a sharpie and colour the outermost ring of the CD.

[BackFireWarrior]

I have iRiver iHP-100 and iRiver iMP-550 and I can ripped protected CDs using the 2 iRiver product without any use of computer and its all digital (not analog) so the sound will be the same as ripping CDs with a computer. I connect them using digital/optical cable.

[deftdrummer1]

i didn't even know they made copy protected cd's that absolutely could not be ripped to a HD.

[AptMunich]

try ripping using eac and LAME.

With EAC i can rip most cd-protected cd's, just load eac and only select the audio data to rip, not the last file it finds at the bottom of the selection window as that is the copy protect part.

works every time :)

[godcha]

A few days ago I used CDex with LAME to rip cds. At that time I bought an album for a mate [Michelle Branch - Hotel Paper] which had a label "Copy Protected" on it; CDex was not able to read/rip and/or my DVD drive had huge problems. I didn't had EAC yet installed so I don't know if EAC would succesfully do the job, I do know that Nero6 U.E. was able to rip [thru my CDRW drive] cos that's how I did it in the end.

Since I am currently reripping my CDs [higher bitrate/VBR] I will also have to rip Michelle Branch again using EAC; I am curious if EAC will rip without probs. Will see...

[Impulse29]

My brother put me to the test with a cd that is "copy protected". He told me that it is impossible, and i cannot do it... I did it in 4 ways:
1. Made a disc image using cd copy (os9), then ripped them on the hard drive.
2. extracted the songs by dragging them off the cd... then dragging them in iTunes.
3. I opened up WireTap, and played the song... I dont like this method, but it works...
4. I dragged the songs on the cd into toast, and burnt my own audio cd... it removed the copy protection...

I got myself $20!