Hi, Does anyone have tips or techniques (or a software ?) for reading and ripping audio cds that don't work on computers? Most of the cds that have this computer blocking technology were released in the beginning of the 2000s as a way of preventing piracy, and if I recall correctly the technology stopped being used cause by simply painting the border of the cd with a sharpie you could read them on computers. What I'm asking here is of course an alternative to this trick cause I really don't want to ruin some of my cds... Thanks in advance <3
I would recommend not using a permanent marker. Isopropyl alcohol, also known as rubbing alcohol, should be able to remove marker stains. Also, I would try using Exact Audio Copy, a software, to attempt removing that copyright protection on your C.Ds.
The only thing you can do is use a different drive I had the same problem on this disc: https://sharemania.us/threads/192736/ So I bought myself a IDE/SATA to USB Adapter (left, around 20€) and crammend out this old CD Burner and it works great. It's an PLEXTOR PleXWriter Premium CD-RW Drive from 2003 and it doesn't get irritated with those "copy protected" CDs and it's known for that.
I looked to get one but where I live they cost over 100€, if you live in Germany you can send me a Disc to rip.
