Last week I bought a CD of this Eric Clapton album because the CD was 45% cheaper than buying the MP3s. “I have a drive I can attach to my laptop; I’ll just create the MP3s myself”, I thought.
Hah!
I guess the joke is on me, unless someone knows a trick for making a disk like this work.
First time I’ve seen this, and I’ve been using this drive to rip dozens of CDs over the last few months as I finally digitize my music collection.
Next steps, see if it works in several other computers – if not, back it goes.
@alexkingorg bah, you’ve bought the album, you’re entitled to a few mp3 by peer to peer now 😉
Does the disk or packaging have the official “Compact Disk” logo on it anywhere? Theoretically, if it does, that shouldn’t happen. Of course, manufactures can lie and claim that the disk is in-spec when it really isn’t.
I’ve got one CD (“Roll the Bones” by Rush) that seems to have some sort of copy protection on it. I can rip every other Rush CD I own just fine, but that one is problematic.
You could try using a 3rd-party ripping app. Back when I still used Windows, that often worked for me.
@alexkingorg http://t.co/8uovM5pioN
What happens when you “Initialize…” ?
I didn’t try, but it normally erases the disk.