Dinko Posted September 30, 2005 Report Share Posted September 30, 2005 I just bought Chayanne's latest album, Cautivo.The bright minds at SonyBMG have figured that they were going to add copy protection to their CDs, but that they would allow users to make copies...1) You're allowed to make 3 copies of the disc. The three copies are almost exact replicas of the original, including the crappy software that comes on the master CD.2) You're allowed to make WMA copies of the music. 128 kbps. 3 CD burns. Unlimited portable device transfers.3) You're allowed to make ATRAC copies of the music. Bit rate unknown. Restrictions unknown.Option 1 works fine.Option 2 works fine.Option 3 fails every time.Option 3 installs a thing called "Music Player". It's installed in the Sony folder of your hard drive. It's a pretty primitive thing. OpenMG startup logo similar to SimpleBurner or SonicStage. I don't know what ATRAC flavour the files would have been copied to my library to since the damn thing failed every time, throwing an 8-9 digit error code at me.It's like a mini SonicStage, only buggier, uglier and just plain annoying.Once again the Sony ironies are worthy of a theatre play. Sony CD.Can't be copied using Sony's SonicStage.Sony's Music Player fails miserably.So can't be transfered to Sony device.Windows Media files copy correctly to the PC.But SonicStage won't accept WMA DRM files, so again, the Sony CD is untransferrable to Sony devices.A number of options:1) line in to HiMD then transfer to SonicStage then WAV Converter do what you want.2) burn crappy 128kbps WMA files to CD using WMP 10, then rip CD using SonicStage3) analog line in to PC and others.All because of Sony Music's paranoid loons... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atrain Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 how does EAC or CDEX cope with the disk? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonyslave Posted October 1, 2005 Report Share Posted October 1, 2005 Interestingly I had the same sort of problem with Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells 2003, which had copy protection on it. Insert it into the computer's CD drive and up popped a music player so you could play it on the computer, mp3 format, 128kbps, not good.iTunes and WMP did not even recognise it as a CD, but when I opened SonicStage, guess what, it recognised the CD and even let me copy it in to ATRAC.Still trying to puzzle this one out. I know it doesn't solve your problem though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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