Text 5093, 118 rader
Skriven 2005-06-17 17:46:54 av Glenn Meadows (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 5089 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Sony CDs - No rip to Ipod from PC
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From: "Glenn Meadows" <gmeadow@comcast.net>

Yes, I believe part of this new approach, is to include DRM'd WMA on the disk
in a second session, along with the regular redbook stuff.  They're restricting
the ability for the computer CD player to actually access the redbook session. 
We accidently did that on a release last year, the people making the enhanced
CD forgot to "import" the first session TOC into the second session TOC.

When you make an "enhanced CD", one with audio at the front, and "data" at the
back, when you burn the first disk, that session has a flag that tells players
that can read the second session (CDROM DRIVES), to go read the second session
TOC, which is at the END of the audio portion.  That second TOC is SUPPOSED to
have the audio session TOC as well as the DATA session TOC, so the CDROM knows
where to go to play the audio portion, as well as where the data is.  Well,
these folks forGOT to do the import when they added the multi-media portion,
and it went to manufacturing that way.  ALL the computer could see, was the
data portion, no way, no how, were we able to get a computer to access the
first session on the CD.  It played just fine in a regular CD player though. 
Even making an image copy of the disk, and burning a new one would not provide
access to the audio content.  The biggest problem, is if it's a LONG CD,
there's not much space left for the WMA files to fit with any decent bitrate.

--

Glenn M.
"Mike '/m'" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
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>
> Are those WMA files compressed audio?
>
> /m
>
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:34:08 -0400, "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"Mike '/m'" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
>>news:70f6b113m3tnk54611smcg3ok77dhsq7ve@4ax.com...
>>>
>>> What better way to find out how many people actually want to rip from
>>> the CD?  And get the email address of people who do so?
>>>
>>> /m
>>>
>>> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:09:10 -0400, "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>This is ridiculous. Complain that you can't rip to the Ipod and SonyBMG
>>>>will
>>>>send you an email with a "back door" to enable the rip.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/portable-media/sony/sony-bmg-pirate-battle-1
08260.php
>>
>>
>>The instructions are already out. I wonder what "LaunchCD.exe" buries in
>>one's PC?
>>
>>http://www.tuaw.com/2005/06/14/on-buying-the-new-foo-fighters-album-from-the-
itms/
>>
>>If you have a PC place the CD into your computer and allow the CD to
>>automatically start. If the CD does not automatically start, open your
>>Windows Explorer, locate the drive letter for your CD drive and
>>double-click
>>on the LaunchCD.exe file located on your CD.
>>
>>Once the application has been launched and the End User License Agreement
>>has been accepted, you can click the Copy Songs button on the top menu.
>>
>>Follow the instructions to copy the secure Windows Media Files (WMA) to
>>your
>>PC. Make a note of where you are copying the songs to, you will need to
>>get
>>to these secure Windows Media Files in the next steps.
>>
>>Once the WMA files are on your PC you can open and listen to the songs
>>with
>>Windows Media Player 9.0 or higher. You may also play them in any
>>compatible
>>player that can play secure Windows Media files, such as MusicMatch,
>>RealPlayer, and Winamp, but it will require that you obtain a license to
>>do
>>so. To obtain this license, from the Welcome Screen of the user interface,
>>click on the link below the album art that says If your music does not
>>play
>>in your preferred player, click here. Follow the instructions to download
>>the alternate license.
>>
>>Using Windows Media Player only, you can then burn the songs to a CD.
>>Please
>>note that in order to burn the files, you need to upgrade to or already
>>have
>>Windows Media Player 9 or greater.
>>
>>Once the CD has been burned, place the copied CD back into your computer
>>and
>>open iTunes. iTunes can now rip the songs as you would a normal CD.
>>
>>Please note an easier and more acceptable solution requires cooperation
>>from
>>Apple, who we have already reached out to in hopes of addressing this
>>issue.
>>To help speed this effort, we ask that you use the following link to
>>contact
>>Apple and ask them to provide a solution that would easily allow you to
>>move
>>content from protected CDs into iTunes or onto your iPod rather than
>>having
>>to go through the additional steps above.
>>http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipod.html
>>Please let us know if we can assist you further.
>>
>

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