Text 5096, 41 rader
Skriven 2005-06-17 19:46:16 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 5093 av Glenn Meadows (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Sony CDs - No rip to Ipod from PC
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>

>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.


That is the crux of my concern here.  I am being forced to sub-standard
playback quality by the DRM.

 /m



On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 17:46:54 -0500, "Glenn Meadows"
<gmeadow@comcast.net> wrote:

>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.

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