kevs Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 I have a Sony dual deck burner. I am having problem backing up my md's to the burner because Sony says it uses "seriel copy management", which prevents music that was copied to the md digitally, to be then backed up to a music cdr digitally. Are there any specific cd burners people know of (past or present -- home units only with digital input) that don't have this infuriating feature? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted March 2, 2004 Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 All home "consumer" digital recorders use SCMS protection, but there are so-called "professional" decks which allow you to bypass SCMS. Sorry, I don't have any details, but I think they are rather more expensive than home decks. Alternatively, you could get an SCMS killer such as the Midiman CO3 from Sound Professionals, which isn't cheap either, or just good old analogue recording (with decent cables). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevs Posted March 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 2, 2004 Kevin: Thanks so much, very helpful, -- I'm going to explore all those ideas. couple questions. 1) How do they get away with this crap? Think about it, I'm trying to burn a cdr from my minidisc, and I'm using "music" cdrs which cost more and which money goes to all record lables. 2) Actually my first 500 md were all analog. I notice no sound improvement with digital, but decided to go digital only for very handy fact that with digital, you don't have to worry about song order-- it takes care of that. I find digital also imperative going from md to cdr (I only use it as back up) for same reason. Another idea, is I could also download all my mixes into computer-- it's tedious though. 3) you sure all of them? I remember Phillips making a dual burner, but don't see it on their website anymore. 4) side note, but at same time discovered this, did notice some new cds wont burn on my computer. When did this start becoming prevelant and is there any place that list all cd that have copy protection? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJ_Palmer Posted March 3, 2004 Report Share Posted March 3, 2004 Kevs, yes I agree about that SCMS is too restrictive and undiscerning when it comes to material you own for personal use. The bottom line is that the record companies/hi-fi don't care about us, just their own interests. I think all home CD burners (decks) have SCMS protection. I've owned a few (including a dual deck Philips) and they all did. I think most/many PC soundcards don't do SCMS, so perhaps you could master your recordings onto CD that way and use a soundcard with an optical out for dubbing initially - tedious as you say. Copy protected CD's are becoming very "popular" nowadays, though I think most if not all have some sort of warning on the box - or at east are not allowed to display the "CD" standard logo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevs Posted March 4, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 4, 2004 Wow, that sucks KJ. I wonder if there is a real time web list that has what is copy protected. I get most my cd in trades, I trade a lot, so I wont know otherwise. thanks for tips. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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