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Charlie - 28 Jun 2004 15:26 GMT

Just bought the George Harrison Dark Horse Box set - and it is in the
dreaded copy control format and i want to rip a spare copy for the car
and later at work.

It looks like the evil record companies have actually got the CC stuff
working because this won't play fair.

My previous CC style CD (Let It Be - Naked) ripped with out a problem -
indeed the player that came with the CD to play the Winamp files crashed
on opening. I bought the GH set with the idea that the CC stuff was
designed to stop Windows boxes and they forgot to test the system on a
Mac.

Any ideas if anyone has a get around for this. I did a Google search
and the articles I read indicated that CC doesn't work on Mac's (they
must have ripped LIB-N)

If you rip the tracks the standard way, you get little bursts of static
noise through them. Not a big problem for the car, but through
heaphones at work it's not so good.

Any pirates out there?????

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D.Fresh - 28 Jun 2004 15:48 GMT

> Just bought the George Harrison Dark Horse Box set - and it is in the
> dreaded copy control format and i want to rip a spare copy for the car
> and later at work.
>
> It looks like the evil record companies have actually got the CC stuff
> working because this won't play fair.

I bought the GH set with the idea that the CC stuff was

> designed to stop Windows boxes and they forgot to test the system on a
> Mac.

> Any pirates out there?????

I have an external Liteon Combo drive in a Firewire enclosure.
And it works fine . But then I haven't bothered to check actually in my
machine(s) as I once heard that macs didn't spit hte CD's back out...???
both my machines (Cube and powerbook) are slot loading which equals
bitch of an effort to find the manual eject...

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Ribfeast - 28 Jun 2004 23:52 GMT

Play it on your computer, and use a program called WireTap to record the
playing music to AIFF files, then burn those to CD ;) Little trick I
learned recently!

On 29/6/04 12:26 AM, in article
puffinnospam-DAAF8D.22261228062004@freenews.iinet.net.au, "Charlie"
<puffinnospam@iinet.net.au> wrote:

> Just bought the George Harrison Dark Horse Box set - and it is in the
> dreaded copy control format and i want to rip a spare copy for the car
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>
> Any pirates out there?????

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Dale Stanbrough - 29 Jun 2004 01:04 GMT

> Any ideas if anyone has a get around for this. I did a Google search
> and the articles I read indicated that CC doesn't work on Mac's (they
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>
> Any pirates out there?????

Interesting, isn't it, that providing copy prevention drives some
people to look for online copies...

Dale

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Charlie - 30 Jun 2004 14:14 GMT

It looks like the evil empires wins this round. Thanks for the
suggestions guys.

In Order -

> D.Fresh wrote -
> I have an external Liteon Combo drive in a Firewire enclosure.
> And it works fine . But then I haven't bothered to check actually in my
> machine(s) as I once heard that macs didn't spit hte CD's back out...???

Are you sure they sound fine - try listening through headphones, I'm
thinking you'll pick up the little bursts of static.

> Ribfeast wrote -
> Play it on your computer, and use a program called WireTap to record the
> playing music to AIFF files, then burn those to CD ;) Little trick I
> learned recently!

Wiretap records from the soundcard as you go, unfortunately if you play
the CC CD in iTunes it drops out for about 5 seconds every now and then.
The player the evil ones supply plays el crappy WinAmp files, noticably
lower quality than the iTunes aiff files (admittedly without the
breaks). I already own the first release of these CD's - they are way
better than the WinAmp sound, but no match for the new re-mastered CD's.

> Dale wrote
> Interesting, isn't it, that providing copy prevention drives some
> people to look for online copies...

Yeah, this is a real market winner for EMI.... I'll take them back to
the store for a refund and never ever buy a CC CD again. I'll order in
a set from the UK or USA where they are not CC'd. I'll then play the
CD's I've purchased on my Mac at Home, my PC at work and I'll rip a copy
for the car (and be labeled a pirate by those EMI dickheads)

The marketing people at these companies must be one step up from total
f*&^%ing moron. They must piss off so many customers, but the ripped
mp3's of all the songs are available on the P2P networks - so it's all
in vain. Here the rant ends.....

Thanks again for the suggestions

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Ripping protected CD's