I have one of those CDs which have been protected in some way and I can't play it on the computer or rip it to a MP3.

Is there anyway to rip it to MP3 format.

Haircut said...

try the black nikko pen around the inside / outside of the cd trick (google is your friend)

or

take the SPDIF output of your computer's cd-rom drive and feed it into the spdif input of the computer's soundcard (many have a digital spdif input), and use a free sound editor like Audacity to record the digital signal

or

some soundcards have a "record what you hear through the speakers" option. Again, you can use Audacity to re-record the music digital to digital

all of the above avoid the digital to analogue and back to digital quality degradation. (arguably as good as a perfect copy of the original. 99.99999% won't hear a difference)

if all else fails, take the soundcard's analogue output and feed it back into the line/mic socket and re-record it (some quality loss)


i'm cheap

what about for apple. i hate this thing

Doh! sorry, my bad. just realized you said you can't play it on the computer

from what i understand - post 1998, cd/dvd rom drive manufacturers need to incorporate the error checking as part of CD licensing compliance, as well as various other things like DVD region coding, turned on by default to be DVD license complaint. If you turn this off after you buy it, no probs, but for the manufacturer to be allowed to sell it, they must have these things turned on when it's sold. Some manufacturers allow these things to be turned off quite easily, some don't

If you have a very old computer IDE cd-rom drive (2x 4x 8x speed) from early to mid 90's, with spdif output (most did) it's worth hanging onto for the lack of error checking reason

In most cases (even with pre 1998 manufactured drives), typical "ripping" as we know it isn't possible, and you will still need to use the SPDIF digital trick, and play the CD back while recording it digitally

Above is all b/s
What is it i can download that in 10 min for free! It could quite well be the codec the cd has been written in. You may not have the codec to support the cd.
Sometime you may have to change your media player settings to English etc depending on the country of origin.
It seems like a simple codec problem.

screenshot the fault message and i can offer you help and software that will support the codec.

busterwa said...


Above is all b/s

Reference:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book(CD_standard)

1)There is two problems here. 1 is a copy write problem which prevents the "ripping of the cd"

I cant really help because not enough information is given as in is it a dvd cd etc and unsure on the original format.

If you require to rip the cd it is difficult and it may require a crack. You can use software like blindwrite isobuster etc to reproduce the cd.


You can change to multiple format and do all sorts of stuff with it but its very complicated. To crack a protected cd requires knowledge and rewriting into different formats."decryption software"


The other problem is preventing him from watching/listening/ to the cd.

If it is a video etc and you cant view it try using


www.gomlab.com/index.gom
www.videolan.org/
www.codecguide.com/download_k-lite_codec_pack_mega.htm

Windows media player dosent come standard with all codec To play alot of stuff (especially downloaded content) you will need a programe that can read the format.

" just remember if your a younger person using mum and dads computer consult them before you download and install anything ;-)

so who is the idiot?
the legit purchaser of goods with protection protected cd which doesn't allow the consumer/purchaser to view it at his discretion or or a downloaded version from Russia and Netherlands ' free cracked and watchable?

what's a CD?