[PLUG-TALK] ripping a music CD?

[Denis Heidtmann]

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Denis Heidtmann
<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:46 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:36:18 -0800
>> Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> dijo:
>>
>>>... My computer's Liteon drive did not even recognize the disk
>>>as media.  My son's laptop tried, but could not read the data even
>>>after nearly an hour of trying using grip.
>>>
>>>There is nothing on the CD or the packaging which indicates that this
>>>disk is protected in any way.  The only clue may be  IFPI 1697 stamped
>>>into the plastic near the hole.  There is also M1S1 stamped into it.
>>>
>>>Anybody have suggestions as to what is going on, and how to get this
>>>thing ripped?
>>
>> I have done this hundreds of times, using cdparanoia and lame. Start by
>> making sure they are installed - use your package manager or command
>> line. Here are some instructions that I saved for myself:
>>
> John,
>
> Thanks so much for the very detailed instructions.  Now if only my
> machine could say I had more than air in my drive, I could try it.
> Evan will try when he gets a free moment--his machine at least
> recognizes that there is something in the drive.  If he fails, perhaps
> I can get this CD to you to see if your magic will work.
>
> -Denis
>

Well, as I feared, the CD tied up Evan's computer without any success
even reading it.  Time to try something else.  (Go after a CD player
with a soldering iron to get the digital data before it gets to the
D/A?)

I am curious if this CD is something new from the DR guys.  This is
the second copy of this disk which behaves this way.  The first we
took back to the store as a defective item.  It was not quite as bad
as this one, but it still might have been cardboard as far as my
machine is concerned.

-Denis