A Stubborn Cd

[The Niles]

I want to rip Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwriten" but the program I normally use for this (MusicMatch) refuses to rip the last track. Most likely this is caused by some form of copy protection. Since my computer can both see and read that track I am confident it can be ripped.
Does anyone have a suggestion with which program I can achieve this?

[Kon-Tiki]

Alcohol 120% (http://trial.alcohol-soft.com/en/) can rip and handle various encryptions. It might be worth giving that one a try, although the only free version of it that's available, is a free 30-day trial.

[efthimios]

Try vuplayer it is mainly a player but has a very nice ripping part and I never had any problems with it.

www.vuplayer.com

If that fails then you can also try audiograbber

[_r.u.s.s.]

i use Easy CD-DA extractor (http://www.poikosoft.com/) and it have never failed b4

[win98]

The music must be copy protected.

[Mara]

protected music cd = I don't buy. The only use I have of cd is making mp3, since I use my pc to listen to music. (Which is private copy and still legal, I just hope it says that way) So if I can't make mp3, It's usless...

I ussualy use Cdex. don't know how if it would manage to break the protection, but it's a good, and free , software.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdexos

Mmm. I had some "ripping the last trak" problem. Audio catalyst refused, then CdEx managed to get through. Still though the fact of having data after the traks was the problem, but maybe it was a protection. ..

[win98]

Yeah I use that I forgot to tell you but use it it is good.

[guesst]

Does EAC (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) have that problem?

[win98]

Not sure but we are gonna find out. Good idea.

[velik_m]

Originally posted by The Niles@Apr 13 2006, 08:11 PM
I want to rip Natasha Bedingfield's "Unwriten" but the program I normally use for this (MusicMatch) refuses to rip the last track. Most likely this is caused by some form of copy protection. Since my computer can both see and read that track I am confident it can be ripped.
Does anyone have a suggestion with which program I can achieve this?
why don't you just use bittorrent? somebody probably ripped it already.

[troop18546]

Well, WMP can rip it easily if you can play it with it.
Ofcourse there is Audacity, just play the song and record it, this prog does wonders for me.

[win98]

I myslef do not liek the way wmp rips things.

[Shrek]

If I may sugest something, I woud say you need something like AnyDVD (http://www.slysoft.com/en/anydvd.html)... it was made to bypass DVD copy protections, but it can also bypass any CD or music CD protection.

[win98]

Hey I know that one a friend uses it and I will work 99.5 percent of the time if you use it right.

[Titan]

Well.. technicly you should be allowed to download the album, as you own it, and last time i heard about it; you'r allowed to make a backup-copy for personal use in EU, and if that is impossible, you have the right still, so the downloaded (not exact copy) would be the backup you'r entiteld to have.

[win98]

Downloading it may be a good idea If you can't rip it.
But sureley there is a way

[_r.u.s.s.]

if you have time you can use audio-output recorder

[win98]

Or and audio output recorder then use a program to covert it to mp3 if it is not already.

[efthimios]

Sooooo, Niles, any update?

[win98]

About time for news I agree.

[_r.u.s.s.]

Originally posted by win98@Apr 18 2006, 07:47 PM
Or and audio output recorder then use a program to covert it to mp3 if it is not already.
audio output recoreders use to convert it to mp3 automatically.. i dont know any recorder which saves it to wav

[Mara]

if you want a recorder, use can audacity

it can record, edit wav file,and it's a freeware.
Google for it ;)

[_r.u.s.s.]

^ LOL there were like 3 topics for "looking for recording software"

[win98]

Opps my mistake.

[The Niles]

Yes, I have managed to rip it eventually. Any DVD seems to have done the trick as I ripped it without problems after installing it.

Alcohol120% does not have a rip function that I could find btw.

Thanks for the input everyone.

[win98]

Sweet! :ok: