If worst happens - use a line-in port and capture it at 1 speed.... Which is what you have to do for non-digital media already.
-----Original Message----- From: David Mann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 11 November 2005 4:47 p.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: copy protected music Cds, will they play under linux On Nov 10, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Julian Visch wrote: > Has anyone got these copy protected CDs to actually play on Linux? Or > are they just a waste of money? As someone else mentioned, most of the copy protection schemes embed some Windows software in a data track. Many are now incorporating Mac software as well. As long as you can get your system to ignore the data track you should be fine. And people said those green pens* were useless - they were just ahead of their time :) I just remembered that I have one CD that I couldn't get to rip on either Win or Mac, no matter what tricks I tried. I've been intending to try ripping it with Linux. It's pretty much academic now as my iPod is full :( - Dave * Drawing around the outer edge of a CD with a special (=expensive) green pen was once touted as a way to improve the sound quality by supposedly absorbing stray IR light which would otherwise reflect internally. Nowadays, some copy-protection schemes can be broken by drawing at the outside of the disc (this time on the surface rather than the edge), which causes the drive to return errors when attempting to access the data track which is physically located there.
