From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Apr 26 12:12:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.netcologne.de (mail2.netcologne.de [194.8.194.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17ED837BD13 for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 12:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Received: from oranje.my.domain (dial-lind-42.netcologne.de [195.14.250.42]) by mail2.netcologne.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA19777; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:11:59 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from marc@localhost) by oranje.my.domain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA04908; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:11:04 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from van.woerkom@netcologne.de) Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 21:11:04 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200004261911.VAA04908@oranje.my.domain> X-Authentication-Warning: oranje.my.domain: marc set sender to van.woerkom@netcologne.de using -f From: Marc van Woerkom To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Copy protected CD Audio Reply-To: van.woerkom@netcologne.de Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The latest volume of the "Techno Club" sampler comes with copy protection - my first audio CD of that kind. Last time I had to deal with such crap was with protected Apple ][ floppies more than ten years ago. The lesson from that time was that interested parties still were able to circumvent the measures, while making life less comfortable. In this particular case I tried the CD in the ATAPI drive of a NT box - the drive seeks to death. The cdrom drive in a 5000$ IBM Thinkpad under OS/2 had no troubles with it, even digital transfer was possible. Under FreeBSD, in an old Pioneer DR-U12X SCSI drive, I can enter it for the first time and do a TOC request marc@oranje$ cdcontrol info cdcontrol: no CD device name specified, defaulting to /dev/cd0c Starting track = 1, ending track = 15, TOC size = 4 bytes track start duration block length type ------------------------------------------------- 1 0:02.00 6:17.20 0 28145 audio 2 6:17.20 7:25.70 28145 33295 audio 3 13:41.15 6:00.39 61440 26889 audio 4 19:39.54 4:40.03 88329 20853 audio 5 24:17.57 4:47.40 109182 21415 audio 6 29:03.22 4:52.50 130597 21800 audio 7 33:53.72 6:40.10 152397 29860 audio 8 40:32.07 6:02.63 182257 27063 audio 9 46:32.70 4:18.30 209320 19230 audio 10 50:49.25 5:35.67 228550 25042 audio 11 56:23.17 6:52.73 253592 30823 audio 12 63:14.15 2:31.12 284415 11187 audio 13 65:43.27 4:52.48 295602 21798 audio 14 70:34.00 4:47.00 317400 21375 audio 15 75:19.00 12:22.17 338775 55517 data 170 87:39.17 - 394292 - - marc@oranje$ and play it via "cdcontrol play" (thus analog transfer). No luck with digital transfers yet. It also seems that the CD-ROM driver can get confused. One of the reasons seems to be the data track at 75:19.00, which end 87:39.17 looks like lying outside the real CD. Copy or not, I hate it, when I can't play my CDs reliable on my computer - anyone has been nagged by similiar discs? Regards, Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message