Essential Dion

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   Okay, I'm ticked.  I ordered The Essential Dion from the BMG record club, only to find that when it arrived that it was "protected" and would only play on my computer, and only with the player included on the disc.  It's supposed to play on regular equipment, but neither of my home CD players recognize it.

Not only that, but I bought it to help me with my personal year-by-year collections, and I can't seem to find any way to import the tracks into my Roxio system to put on a different compilation.

Anyone else angry about this, or is it just me?

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JMD1961 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 March 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote JMD1961 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Essential Dion Posted: 04 October 2005 at 2:57am
	Okay, I'm ticked. I ordered The Essential Dion from the BMG record club, only to find that when it arrived that it was "protected" and would only play on my computer, and only with the player included on the disc. It's supposed to play on regular equipment, but neither of my home CD players recognize it. Not only that, but I bought it to help me with my personal year-by-year collections, and I can't seem to find any way to import the tracks into my Roxio system to put on a different compilation. Anyone else angry about this, or is it just me? Edited by JMD1961

Brian W. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brian W. Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 October 2005 at 1:23pm
	Hmm, I have "Essential Dion," and it played on my car CD player fine. Haven't tried to rip anything from it yet, though. I've noticed a couple import CDs I've seen lately that are copy protected. I would assume you could copy it analog... do you have analog input jacks on your PC, or have a standalone CD recorder?

Brian W. Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 October 2004 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote Brian W. Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 October 2005 at 2:16pm
	Ooh, I see what you mean about the computer, though. It makes you install software on your computer before it'll let you play it! I won't do that, but the back of the box does say "limited copying" with Windows Media. Still, I'm not putting their software on my computer! The good news (for me, anyway) is that I can copy it digitally on my Phillips stand-alone CD recorder, then load the copy onto the PC with no problem. However, it will play on all my CD players, so I don't know exactly what's causing it to not play on yours. Edited by Brian W.

aaronk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 115	Post Options Post Reply Quote aaronk Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 October 2005 at 5:55pm
	I had the same problem trying to load the latest Foo Fighters CD onto my iPod. It would only allow me to copy tracks to my computer thru their software, and the files were already encoded in Window's Media format, which is the worst sounding audio file type out there. Even Real Audio sounds better than the crappy WMA compression! To say the least, I was completely ticked off about this; however, I did find a way around it. Essentially, you have to do what Brian is talking about. I had to play the CD back on my home CD player, which was connected to the input jack of my sound card. I then recorded all of the songs in real time into my audio software. It's a pain, but at least I had the audio files in an uncompressed (lossless) format. Unfortunately, the jerk-offs in the record industry are supposed to put this crappy "copy protection" on every future CD release. In the next couple years, I hear that no CDs will be sold without the copy protection. I'm not sure if that's a rumor or not, but if it's true, there's going to be a lot of pissed off consumers.

JMD1961 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 March 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2	Post Options Post Reply Quote JMD1961 Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 04 October 2005 at 6:24pm
	Since my earlier post, I have managed to get the CD to play on my Philips "boom box", but still not on my other player. It does play in my car, as well. There's a slight flaw in the center hole of the CD, so maybe that's causing the read issue. Unfortunately, I'm not set-up at this time to record analog style. So, for now, the collection is useless for what I got it for. On another note, my anger isn't just that this CD is protected. After all, the label (front and back) is clearly marked to that fact. However, I didn't buy this CD in a store, where I would have seen that information. I got it through BMG, where nothing about "minimum requirements" was mentioned at all. If I had known there would be an issue with my computer, I wouldn't have ordered it, and instead, just bought the tracks I needed for my compilations on iTunes.