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Will copy protection kill Minidisc?

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Langrath

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I have always recorded all my cd:s to minidisc. Now it is more and more difficult with new copy protections that also destroys minidisc copy. Recently I bought a disc with EMI copy protection. I succeeded in ripping them to a cdrw with cdex. But then I get a mess with track numbers when recording to minidisc.

Of course you can record analogue but that is a compromise, isn't it?

Is there a way to solve this problem if you want to do optical recordings?

Georg Langrath

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1. Do a Google search for "EAC 0.95pb3". Use the "TOC Altercations" option. Rip the disc to .wav files. Reburn to a new CD. Put CD-R disc into optical source, and copy. Return disc to store.

2. Buy a better drive that can bypass copy protection in the first place. Copy disc, sans copy protection session. Put CD-R disc into optical source, and copy. Return disc to store.

Either that, or (more likely) your optical source is botched. "cheap" DVD players have a tendency to randomly insert track marks, or refuse to insert them at all. Try a different optical source.

Oh, yes. EAC > CDEx. Not bashing on CDEx, I love open source. It's just that EAC does a much better job.

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Thank you very much

It worked thanks to EAC 0.95pb3 with that TOC-thing. My other tools were the same. I am grateful that there still is a way to copy optical to minidisc. But it makes me angry that I must do all these things for a legal copy to my minidisc.

Georg Langrath

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