BMG CD protection -> mp3

[dern]

I routinely rip all my cds to mp3 to play on my slimp3 player at home and my pc at work but I've just bought the Kings of Leon cd which is BMG copy protected and I can't rip it. CDEX gives me a list of tracks 10 seconds long and then one great big track which I assume contains the balance of the tracks. Does anyone know how I can rip this cd to mp3?

I don't want to download the mp3 from t'internet as I've paid the money for the cd and I want to rip it at the best possible quality.

I can't even play the frigging thing on my portable cd/mp3 player as even in cd mode it only plays the first 10 seconds of the tracks.

I understand the need to protect themselves against copying but I've paid the money and cds are not always the most useful format.

Mark

PS. The cd itself is absolutely superb... which simply adds to my frustration.

[plotloss]

Plug an external CD player to your soundcard line in, record the CD as a WAV and then convert the WAV to MP3.

Job done.

Copy protection schmopy protection...

[SoftwareSorcerer]

Will Exact Audio Copy deal with it?

www.exactaudiocopy.de

[steve-p]

dern said:

PS. The cd itself is absolutely superb... which simply adds to my frustration.

Quite. I returned my copy to Amazon and also complained to the label. It's the only way things will change. I've got 700+ CDs now and this is the first one I have ever had a real problem with. As far as I am concerned, it prevents me from using it in the way I want to (hard disk players). There is a great irony here because I don't believe in stealing music, so I always buy things I like. However since it wasn't possible for me to buy this in a form that worked, I just got it off Kazaa instead. So it has had the opposite effect that it was supposed to.

[KITT]

Have you tried using older software? I've got an old version of RealAudio DukeBox (rubbish really) but it doesn't seem to see the copy protection on some CDs I made a copy of the tracks from my Katie Melua CD for my car's mp3 player using it as Nero wouldn't copy the cd

[steve-p]

KITT said:

Have you tried using older software?

The software wouldn't have made any difference in my case. Just putting the CD in caused the (Richoh DVD) drive to lock up, even with autoplay switched off.

[agent006]

You should be able to switch your ripping software to analog extraction. It's worked on all my BMG cds.

[dern]

Thanks for all the suggestions, I'll try them all when I get a minute.

Regards,

Mark