[linux-audio-user] Reading/playing a "copy protected" CD : Reed-Solomon correction?

[Malcolm Baldridge]

> Not all is lost: Try to find another computer with another CD drive.
> Various drives handle these kinds of broken CDs differently. You could
> also do an analogue copy, which can be of almost the same quality as a
> digital rip.

Do these things deliberately have broken CIRC (L1 errors)?  They must sound
distorted, as when audio data doesn't survive level 2 - that's it.  Unlike
CD-ROM Mode 1 Form 1 (data) which has L-ECC (and retries), you're in the
land of data loss and frame interpolation.

> Other than that I can only think of searching some P2P networks for
> the contents of your CD, which you are kept away from although you
> paid for it.

Those would be lossily compressed.  You'd be better off making an analogue dub.

=MB=

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