imlach

OK....wife recently bought The Blue Nile's new CD - High. Works fine on a standalone CD player.

Now, whenever I get a new CD, I convert it to MP3 so that it'll play on my Slimp3 player.

However, on putting this CD into the Mac, all the tracks just play silence. How do I get round this?

imlach

PS a PC solution is also ok, as could rip the tracks to MP3 on the PC if that is easier....

AndyC_772

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Take it back as defective, IMHO.

A disc that doesn't adhere to the very clear Red Book standard is not at CD at all (just ask Philips, the co-inventor of the format, or Arcam, the high-end CD player manufacturer), and record companies need to be discouraged from producing them. I'd sympathise if they actually reduced on-line piracy at all, but they don't - in fact I wouldn't be surprised to see downloads increasing in such cases. I listen to most music through a PC or MP3 player, so a disc that won't play in either is worthless to me.

richieh

have you an email addy that will take a largeish file?
richie

corradoboy

RichieH, if you have a Mac application that overcomes this problem I'd be interested.

eMail as profile (10mb I think) or try the alternative, same beginning but @ntlworld.com

Thanks in advance

PS. If you could let me know the name of it, I might be able to blag it from Limewire

angrynorth

Not even in iTunes?

All copy protection usually fails to work in iTunes and it normally lets you rip direct. Obviously the in built player won't work but iTunes 4.6 should have no problems at all.

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

Agreed. Return it and demand one that works. Keep doing so until you get one. If enough people do this then maybe the companies might abondon the copy protection systems they use. Which don't work BTW - even a bog-standard copy of Nero 5.5 can copy them.


M

DEEDEE

Take it back as it won't play, and find some one who has it on MP3, if they are selling cd's that will not play in a computer, do what they don't want you to do.

AndyC_772

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It is rather ironic, isn't it? All that copy-protected CDs do is inconvenience legitimate buyers and drive those who wouldn't otherwise have done so to download the music instead. Given the way internet file sharing works, it only takes one person to have equipment that can rip the CD and it's all over the world a few days later.

bloke

Stick it in a PC and press shift while it loads? You might go to the chair tho

imlach

No....iTunes 4.6 didn't cope with ripping it.
Track 1 starts off ok for 2 seconds, then starts playing like a stuck record ad infinitum. Tracks 2 onwards all SEEM to be ripped, but when you play then, you get nothing.

Even inserting the CD into the Mac and trying to PLAY it as a CD gives the same effect - ie, before even trying to rip it.

angrynorth

If you can get it to play on the Mac in any application you could use Audio HiJack to rip the tracks