Also I have already sold my good CD Player on to another Fishy and am not sure I actually own any recording equipment more advanced than the line in on my desktop!Īnyone had any success getting round this another way? Or perhaps be able to let me have use of some hardware that would work? Maybe someone could advise of say an old duel drive CD Recorder on eBay etc that might copy without copying the copy protection and give me a rip-able copy!? I'd be reluctant to spend too much, but if something like that was inexpensive and worked. Playing them and recording the analogue output would of course work, but seems crude. Using older optical drives seems to have been a workaround at one point, however I have pulled a few out of storage to find none of them work any longer! I have had a bit of a scurry round the web and have drawn a bit of a blank. Essentially these brain dead technophobes have decided to punish me for not being a thief! This irritates me enormously as most of these CDs date from a time where had I been minded to I could have quite easily obtained CD quality pirate copies at no or negligible cost which would still play perfectly in my current system. They all seem to be from various arms of Warner Music and despite none of the discs indicating that they are anything other than Red Book CDs I assume this is some sort of Copy Protection.
Cd copy protection software#
I am however discovering a small percentage (39 CDs so far) that result in heavily distorted rips regardless of software used. As some of you may remember I made the jump to NAS/Streaming recently and have been working my way through my fairly extensive CD collection.