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Im trying to rip some older Deutsche Grammaphon CDs (Brahams Piano Concertos) and WMP11 wont do it. Doesnt say why not, but it just spits out the CD with a message: "Windows Media Player cannot rip one or more tracks from the CD."

It was recorded/manufactured in 1997 so it cant have a particularly powerful encryption on it, surely? Anyone know of an agricultural bit of freeware that can rip and tag these CDs for me?

CD is clean, no scratches etc.


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:03 am
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And having exactly the same problem with a Deutsche Grammaphon recording of Sibelius symphonies.

Thing is I cant find any mention of this problem online.


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:07 am
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What's the record label? Sony?


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:11 am
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Can you play it ok on the computer?

If so, you could use mp3mymp3 or similar to rip it.


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:12 am
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Audiograbber?


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:15 am
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Deustsche Grammafon is owned by Universal Music.

Yep plays OK.
MediaMonkey wont rip it becuase it says I need to upgrade for a codec. But it will play it.

Will have a look at mp3mymp3


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:15 am
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I use CDex, never failed me.
http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:15 am
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Have a punt with [url= http://static.slysoft.com/SetupCloneCD.exe ]CloneCD[/url] maybe?

EDIT - good call on CDex, wasn't aware it did protected discs though? (Assuming that's what the problem is)


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:16 am
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just downloading CDex (I always rate sourceforge stuff)


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:17 am
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Brilliant. Cheers Dez, that's ripping fine now.


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:25 am
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Which track is it? Some rippers struggle when the CD has an Emphasis Flag which is either set at the start of the disc if all track require Emphasis or before the track that requires if it is a specific track.
It would be odd though for a 1997 recording to have Emphasis as its not used that much any more.
Can't offer any help that doesn't require specific hardware, apart from analogue capture then MP3 convert.


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:29 am
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whats Emphasis?


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:30 am
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[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_(telecommunications) ]Emphasis[/url] - Not worth worring about unless you spend time editing [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_Disc_subcode ]CD PQ subcodes[/url] 🙂


 
Posted : 22/08/2011 10:33 am