[linux-audio-user] Reading/playing a "copy protected" CD : cdparanoia seems not to help

[Mikhail Ramendik]

Hello,

Sampo Savolainen wrote:

> You can probably play/rip it with cdparanoia 'enhanced' software. Your
> first and best tool for recovering data from copy protected or otherwise
> broken (so-called) CDs is to use the command line cdparanoia.

Well, so I did:

$ cdparanoia --verbose --batch "1-"

It has ripped, reporting no errors, And the clicks still seem to be
there!

Of course there's that chance that the clicks are actually a bad
recording, not copy protection. But it's not so likely; the recording is
not old (1997) and clains to use cool "20-bit recording" technology.

Actually I did think at first that the "20-bit" are at fault; but the
HDCD logo is not present, so apparently this is just a mastrering
technique, and the disk is supposed to be an ordinary CD?

Anyway, are there other tools to try and read it with error correction,
or perhaps cdparanoia options that I could have overlooked?

Yours, Mikhail Ramendik


> 
> "man cdparanoia" for details
> 
>    Sampo
> 
> On Sun, 2004-06-27 at 14:03, Mikhail Ramendik wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have purchased a CD that seems to be copy protected. When I play it,
> > using XMMS and digital playback, it's rather noisy/clicky.
> > 
> > I'd still like to play it, either directly, or by reading to disk first.
> > As I understand, I need some software that would implement Reed-Solomon
> > correction, as done in usual CD players. Is any such software available?
> > Preferrably for Linux, of course.
> > 
> > Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
>