Hidden music tracks !!

[wap3]

I was just wandering.

When you buy an enhanced music cd. One of those which has video and picture etc on it.
When you put it in your cd drive and look at the contents all you normally see is the autorun file, the .exe file and maybe a help file . But no music tracks like you would see if it wasn't an enhanced cd.

Where are the music tracks ??
How do they hide them like this ??

thanks

[Nightfire]

It's the anti-piracy thing most of them do now. It's meant to stop ppl from recording the cd's and selling them on, only problem is, it probably stops most PC users from playing the CD's on their PC, which means they have to go online and download the pirate mp3's :p lol

[cg9com]

the whole pirated blah blah blah is running everyone around in circles.
why not just accept there isnt an answer, technology allows so much, the music companies just need to relax.
besides, all "popular" music (mtv generation ect.) is 95% poo anyway.
i wouldnt waste time buying a recent released CD, much less waste time downloading an mp3. with a few exceptions of course

[wap3]

The only thing is. If that is because they dont want you copying the cd it doesn't work because when I look at the cd through my cd burning software I can see all the tracks and copy them all. (for personal use of course). :eek:

:D

[scroots]

i can get the tracks off the cd onto my harddrive and then back onto CD to play on my cd player.

I will not mention how on these forums as it is breach of TOS

scroots

[brothercake]

... with good quality DA/AD conversion, you can rip CDs via analogue with no obvious loss of sound quality ...

[mouse]

I always wondered if that Microsoft plan to sabotage mp3's created under WindowsXP ever happened.

I find my CD burner won't copy anything at all; I've not tried audio recently but I tried to copy some commercial CD's and it failed, only a few older games are copyable with recent burning software.

My beef with mp3's is that they're such low quality, infact CD audio isn't that great. Roll on 192KHz 24-bit DVD audio* :eek:

[brothercake]

It's funny that - mp3 is really poor quality, comparitively speaking, and yet the record industry still insists that mp3 downloading is hurting CD sales.

Makes no sense. And is not empirically demonstrable.

In fact there is a body of thought which suggests that mp3 downloading has helped to buoy up what would otherwise have been an even greater fall in CD sales over the last 5 years.

[mouse]

Originally posted by brothercake
It's funny that - mp3 is really poor quality, comparitively speaking, and yet the record industry still insists that mp3 downloading is hurting CD sales.

Makes no sense. And is not empirically demonstrable.

In fact there is a body of thought which suggests that mp3 downloading has helped to buoy up what would otherwise have been an even greater fall in CD sales over the last 5 years. I was gong to make the exact same point but couldn't word it within responsible moderatory boundaries... :)

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If the record companies chose decent artists rather than filling our airwaves with boyband and Pop rival-esque balloney then maybe they'd not have the same problems with selling records. The fact has always been that they make their money on albums and teeny pop bands don't sell near as many albums as quality bands.

13 year old girls only get so much pocket money.