Has anyone else got the AONO sampler CD, XLS193CDP.
http://www.discogs.com/release/302146


Im ripping my CD collection to FLAC but this CD is causing me major problems, i dunno if there is some sort of copy protection on it but im not able to rip it, or even listen to it. Ive tried 4 different drives and 3 different computers but nothing works.

I use EAC for ripping and it shows 99 tracks on the cd! Other software doesnt show any tracks.

It plays fine in my Technics stereo so it looks like i might have to get out the rca cables and record it the old fashioned way

Anyone else have trouble with this CD or know of a way to rip it??

i've not got it but i'm pretty sure it was watermarked just like the imd promo that first came along.

theres two things you can do with watermarking.

a) get a permanent marker and look for a line at the inside of the cd and cover it, this is what prevents it from playing on a digital media device such as a pc.

b) plug it into your stereo and use your rca cables.

its probably best to go with b, a should only be used if you've got no other options left.

hope this helps in some way


EDIT:

read the discogs and it mentions something about an extra track being recorded which stops it from playing, this is sort of how watermarking works with promo cd's but this could have just been accidental, in this case i'd completely forget about using option a as it may not even have a watermarking on it.

I cant see any sort of line so that rules out the permanent marker trick.

I just fired up my old pc which has win98 + a very old windows media player and that only saw 2 tracks and played them, shame theres no sound card fitted but i did see the graphic eq dancing about so there must have been sound!!
I will fit a sound card and explore that option.

Im not sure about the comments on discogs, using some software i have seen 3 tracks, but my old pc just saw the 2 tracks and Exact Audio Copy saw 99 tracks
Either someone made a huge f**k up when this cd was pressed or it is some strange form of copy protection that doesnt seem to work on old computers!

i'll check my copy once i get home.
i doubt it's watermarked though.
99% of the promos that are watermarked, have the warning written in disc or the cover or both.

maybe it's one of those nasty sony rootkit cd's

It shows 2 tracks here:

Girls 4:13
Memphis Bells 4:33

And plays fine. If i skip the track a little forward though it stops playing.

Use CDex. You can tell it not to attempt to rip the data track at all, just the two tunes. Both play perfectly too.

What made me laugh is the misspelling when you check the remote CDDB to assign track names; Progidgy.

I just tried CDex and unless you have to massively change the options then it wont do it either!

Just like ExactAudioCopy it see's 99 tracks in total, the first 2 are audio and the rest data.
But try and play them in CDex and the cd spins but you hear nothing, they wont play either!
When you extract the 2 audio tracks to wav or other compressed format it says its done it but when you listen to them the audio only lasts a few seconds before going into silence for the remaining few minutes of the each track, this is what EAC did as well.




What settings did you change from standard to be able to rip them???
It simply wont work for me

Nope didn't change anything apart from the quality (.flac over the standard 128kbs mp3), and the destination for the file. Sounds like you got a version of the disc that really does have copy protection on it.

PM sent.

use Clony XXL (at http://clony-xxl.en.softonic.com/ ) to identify the protection scheme. then give us feedback to tell ya what to do.

I've got the same problem, mine won't rip, but it ripped fine on my last computer, just not on this one?

try right clicking the drive with cd in, properties, hardware, properties again, volumes, hit populate. maybe theres another volume on there that has to be mounted?