Kosmo Threadbane <zeteticCXL@hq.eac> writes:

> Actually, I started with rip. It just disappeared waiting for cdparanoia
> to tell it something interesting, which it never does. No errors, no .wav.
> A friend at work suggested that the CD is copy protected, which it is,
> but that's just a header setting. I don't see why it wouldn't at least
> finish producing a bogus .wav file, unless there's something in the
> first few sectors of each track that makes it compute weird, but I've
> tried the -t switch and it doesn't help.
>
> Like I said, it shows all the tracks and their correct titles, the
> artist, etc., so it CAN read the cd a little, apparently.

Have you tried with different readers? A friend of mine failed to rip
a copy protected CD, whereas it could be read without problems with my
machine. FWIW, I used a Samsung CD-RW/DVD drive. I can't remember
what the other one was, but it was a read-only unit.

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