The System Has Failed won't rip

The Bollox

I recently got my mits on Megadeth's newest album and tried to pit it onto my pc using Media Player, and I can't. Media player doesn't realise there is a cd in the drive. otherwise the CD is perfect, it plays in my cd players and sterios, does anyone else have this problem?

dimerocks

what this is doing in after hours is anyones guess!

The Bollox

where would you have put it?

biko

Prob copy righted. Why do you need to rip it?

Ruu_Old

Eh probably has some sort of copy protection on it maybe? Totally wrong forum too.

The Bollox

it doesn't say anything on the box about copy protection. I don't NEED to rip it, but I like to have my complete music collection on my media player. and where the hell else was I to put this? it is not a music subject, and it is barely a computers subject

biko

Just open a command window and write "OverRide CopyProtect".
I saw this in a film and it seemed to work...

chapod21

try a program called media monkey. it will rip a cd in any format for you ogg wma mp3 and so on it's free just google for it

Sam Vimes

try using something other than wmp. there's loads of options. try CDex. its never steered me wrong

Esel

Hope it's not on the Sony label! They have/had copy protect software which installed a load of malware on the user's PC - and it's hard to get rid of.

Stephen

That was only shipped with certain CD's released in the US market though.

Rhyme

And id say they've copped on after the stink that guy raised after uncovering their nefarious plan.

Ive heard the name 'freerip' thrown around... don't know if that helps.

pbsuxok1znja4r

Weird. My copy ripped no bother. I'm using easy CD ripper.

Capt'n Midnight

Have a look at the disk again.

Does it have the CDDA symbol on it ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard)

Recently, some major recording publishers have begun to sell CDs that violate the Red Book standard for the purposes of copy prevention, using systems like Copy Control, or extra features such as DualDisc, which features a CD-layer and a DVD-layer. The CD-layer is much thinner, 0.9mm, than required by the Red Book, which stipulates 1.2mm. Philips and many other companies have warned them that including the Compact Disc Digital Audio logo on such non-conforming discs may constitute trademark infringement; either in anticipation or in response, the long-familiar logo is no longer to be seen on recent CDs, as well as stickers and warnings that the CD is not standard and may not play in all CD players.

looks like megadeath do copy protect cd's
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00020NPZA/103-1467274-3432601?v=glance&n=5174


Anyway megadeath :rolleyes: just how many Alice Cooper covers have they done ?

The Bollox

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Anyway megadeath :rolleyes: just how many Alice Cooper covers have they done ?

imitation is the greatest form of flattery

chamlis

I got a CD imported from the States which had DRM on it. When you put it in the drive it auto-executes a program. It gives you the option to rip it to your pc as protected WMAs. The cd won't play from any other program on the pc, and the WMAs won't play if copied to another pc or user. So if you are in work and want to listen to the music, if you don't have admin privileges, you can't listen to the disk and you can't rip to the harddrive.

When I ripped it with another program I found that the mp3s skipped, for example: instead of "1,2,3,4,etc" it was "1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4,etc". Very annoying.

SirLemonhead

Capt'n Midnight wrote:

Anyway megadeath :rolleyes: just how many Alice Cooper covers have they done ?

2 isnt it?

Dave is pretty close to Alice. He's his godson or something...

NutJob

For Alice fans and off topic

http://player.virginradio.co.uk/core/player2/?service=vc&detected_speed=bb&service=vc

After 6 most days he has his own show



Try CDEX it rips any cd i have and has been knowen to get rouund some copy protection used by sony