Copy ControlHI! CD's to MP3s

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PoKeMoNrOcKs

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HI!

You guys are always so helpful ... here's another one that has me stumped:

I just bought two CD's and they are copy controlled ... I want them on my SD card to travel with me in my T2. I paid for the CD shouldn't I be able to use it?!?! ARGH! Any ideas as how I can by-pass the copy control to get the music onto my T2??? HELP!

Cheers :)
 
...but I don't know if I've ever ripped any copy-controlled CD's. All I know is that iTunes has successfully encoded all of my mp3's.

It's free, maybe it's a solution for you.
POL9A
 
We need an attorney to clarify th exact details, but I'm PRETTY SURE you can make a copy of your OWN material for your OWN use. You bought the damn thing - you ought to be able to "change media" to make it easier to actually listen to.

Some CD burning software allows you to copy that sort of material but I don't know about making MP3's from your CD's.

I would imagine that any soundcard/MP3 recorder would record the sound coming in to the computer from a CD player, rip an MP3 and you're done -- and there are good softwares available for that (I think!) - Sonic Foundry Vegas is one I hear a lot; it's around $200 but records any sound signal going through the "port" you place in the rear. POL's itunes sounds good too.

Let me know how you get on, because I have long believed by vinyl albums of "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" sound better than the gold CD I bought of same name -- I'd like to record my old albums and "clean them up" on the PC and burn a CD. Us old guys got hosed when some older albums (for example Elton John's "Blue Moves") were "remixed" by the record company on CD -- they eliminated my favorite FOUR TRACKS to make "it fit" on a single CD. Talk about theft.

I think if you own the CD/song and paid for it, you should be able to make an MP3 to carry around - that's not exactly the biggest offense being committed with music today, believe me. On the other hand, a simple portable CD player would sound better and not fill up your SD Card with a few songs.
 
Hey Paul. My mom's always going on about the "tonal quality" of LP's vs. CD's. I'm starting to give it credence now that I've got a phonograph player to listen to all these LP's of my parents.

I don't see anything wrong with converting music I own from one format to another. I think that gh12 would probably get more music on a portable CD player that plays mp3 CD's (or even an Ipod, since we're adding another device) but he (?) probably wants to enjoy the convergence of his T|2 without the added expense of another device and it's related media.

I converted all of my CD's to mp3's (at 192 kbps) using iTunes, mostly because I'm a Mac kinda guy. My mom uses some PC software to do the same thing on her end. I'm pretty sure that her software was free (I just cannot remember what the name is right now) and I know that iTunes is free and available on the PC.

I think that this phenomena of copy-protected CD's is fairly recent, especially since the whole brouhaha re: music sharing, and that's probably why my mom and I haven't come across any copy-protected CD's in our collections. But we'd never know if we did because our software just crunched through any CD's in it's path.

I still recommend trying iTunes on those CD's. I know that when I convert my parent's LP's to mp3's, I'll probably encode them onto the Mac using CD Spin Doctor 2 (at CD quality) and then encode those files into mp3's using iTunes.

Crossing fingers.
POL9A
 
HI!

Thanks for the feedback ... but not quite what I am looking for.

I have these two Copy Control CD's and I haven't had any previous problems taking songs from a CD to my T2 but the thing is how do I get around the Copy Control??? iTunes will get around the the copy control??? I tried going to the control panel to change the properties and everything but nothing works ... HELP!

Cheers :)
 
Nero Burning Rom will get around it but don't know if new version rips MP3.s. I bought 5.5 2 years ago and use it to this day - but for aggregate CD backups, etc - not for MP3's.

There HAS TO BE ripper that gets around the silliness and please let us know when you find one - there's got to 4 dozen!! I thought the sound-card thing in the back, recording audio as audio and nothing "coded," would be best because all it's doing is recording "raw" sound.

As for POLions, yes, sadly I'm a relic!! When you go to a nightclub and the music "pounds," that's because CDs record from 20-20000. VINYL records from 10-60,000 and doesn't digitally "fill in" highs like harmonics. It's smoother, fuller -- even with the ticks and pops. Edit those out and "analog-ize" the recording, and your CDs will sound fantastic.
 
I have not been able to get iTunes to rip copy controlled CDs but there is a solution to this and PTL is on the right track. Get a copy of Total Recorder (www.highcriteria.com - and all of $11.95), connect your CD player to the line in on your computer, record the incoming audio then save the file as recorded by Total Recorder as an MP3. You'll need to add an MP3 codec to Total Recorder but the instructions tell you where to download one, free.

Total Recorder is a brilliant program which even records streaming audio, has a timer function and some editing facilities. Obviously you can connect your turntable to the line in as well and get your vinyls onto whatever medium you choose. Ah yes - it also supports Ogg Vorbis. I use it extensivley then simply add the files that I've recorded to iTunes and then to my iPod.

I'm not suggesting any of this is legal (whether you think it ought to be or not!) but seeing as I've had lots of help from this forum ought to do my bit in return...:)

Ryetee

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Following the rules will not get the job done.
 
...Wiretap is a free utility for Mac OS X that will record any audio on your Mac. I didn't even think of that as a solution until Ryetee mentioned his program, and then I said, "That sounds familiar to a program I know of that's free."

I guess that iTunes won't rip copy-protected CD's. I guess that I haven't come across any of those CD's.

Either way, I think that there is a viable solution and we'll get that musc up and running on your T|2 in no time flat.
POL9A
 
Okay!

That makes way more sense t this feeble mind :) Thanks for the tips ... and will check out the cdfreak site. It just makes me SO mad that they would copy control the new CDs ... it just isn't right!

Cheers :)
 
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