Ripping Protected Cds?

[monkeyfist]

I want to rip my whole CD collection to add to my MP3 player, but soem of the CDs have protection. Does any bright spark have the answer to answer to this and a program that would help me?

[Icebound]

try holding the shift button down while inserting disc. andr.net was talking about this with a new copy protected cd in production, might work :ph34r:

[3rd gen noob]

what are you trying to rip the cd's with?

[Gutter]

Don't use WMP to rip em
anything but

try FreeRip

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by Gutter@30 October 2003 - 20:15
Don't use WMP to rip em
anything but

try FreeRip
i was going to suggest dbpoweramp (http://www.dbpoweramp.com)

[Gutter]

just as good if not better

I'v yet to come accross a protected CD I can't rip though.
If they are really as protected as they say they are

[Johnny_B]

The 2 top CD ripping programs are EAC - Exact Audio Copy (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/) and CDex (http://www.cdex.n3.net/).

Have you tried any one of these? :huh:

[KurtCocain]

Folks,

DO NOT use anything else BUT EAC. Second choice CDex.

EAC has proven best perfomace in ripping !! Thats why all hight quality releases on eMule (APE, MPC) have been proceeded by a nice EAC rip to wavs !!!

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by KurtCocain@30 October 2003 - 21:36
Folks,

DO NOT use anything else BUT EAC. Second choice CDex.

EAC has proven best perfomace in ripping !! Thats why all hight quality releases on eMule (APE, MPC) have been proceeded by a nice EAC rip to wavs !!!
i&#39;ll continue to use dbpoweramp, thanks very much... <_<

[monkeyfist]

I ended up using a program called Easy CD-DA Extractor. It has been quite good so far, the only discs I have had problems with are the ones that are scrached. All the old copy protected CDs have been coppied with no problems.

[Adster]

l continue to use dbpoweramp, thanks very much...

so wil I

cdex sux

and EAC ppl bitch about VBRs

[EnJoi]

try nero it works fine para mi

[wormless]

Originally posted by 3rd gen noob+31 October 2003 - 17:53--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (3rd gen noob @ 31 October 2003 - 17:53)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-KurtCocain@30 October 2003 - 21:36
Folks,

DO NOT use anything else BUT EAC. Second choice CDex.

EAC has proven best perfomace in ripping &#33;&#33; Thats why all hight quality releases on eMule&nbsp; (APE, MPC) have been proceeded by a nice EAC rip to wavs &#33;&#33;&#33;
i&#39;ll continue to use dbpoweramp, thanks very much... <_< [/b][/quote]
omg look at u all argueing :lol:

*watches*

[Icebound]

i just mind my own business and convert my group released albums to .wav before burning. i don&#39;t download any audio except for group released albums B)

[echidna]

http://www.nostatic.org/grip/grip.gif (http://www.nostatic.org/grip/) +
http://xiph.org/paranoia/parabanner.gif (http://xiph.org/paranoia/) +
http://lame.sourceforge.net/logo2.gif (http://lame.sourceforge.net/) =
the best ripping tool i&#39;ve ever used
even badly scratched disks can be ripped, protected CD&#39;s have a long &#39;datatrack&#39; which can easily be ignored
i have had so much trouble just trying to try EAC and when i finally got it to work i found it slow and less effective than grip on a machine half the spec of the one running EAC
it seems to me that the hassle of installing grip on linux was easier and smoother than getting EAC up
so i cannot see why EAC is so great?

[Evil Gemini]

If all these cd rippers are giving you problems, try extracting the whole cd ans an ISO and then extract the tracks from the ISO.

Just a thought.

[monkeyfist]

Well, I ended up using a program called Easy CD-DA extractor, and from all the programs I used, this one blows them all out the water. It is not free, but the demo is fully functional and is unlocked with a serial number.

It can bypass all protections I have seen so far, none of my discs are getting caught by it. The DataTrack is ignored, and it uses freedb to get the album title and track titles. It creates an m3u file automaticly for Winamp and will add extra tracks to it if you miss some on the first rip.

Its also very simple to use and will alow multi sessions so you can be copying from both cd drives at the same time.

I rate it 9/10

Thanks all for your input, I tries out loads of those programs aswell, but a freind showed me this one, and I think he is right about it.