EMI Copy Protection? - Norah Jones' Feels Like Home

[firstadopter]

I'll review her 2nd album in the Music forum, however I'm going to whine about what I hear is copy protection.

It took me only about 2-3 hours to finally rip this CD to my hard-drive using iTunes. The Cd kept trying load their crap software and crashing iTunes in the rip process.

Now if this really is copy protection, I'm upset. I mean while pirates get copy-free CDs, they give us hard-working people who actually buy the CD in store the worst experience.

[firstadopter]

Read somewhere a program called EAC works without crashing.

[TheAngryIntern]

I haven't tried EAC on that CD, but the few new cd's I've gotten I've had no problem ripping (Korn's new one, Radiohead's Hail to the Thief, Incubus's new album, etc...)

EAC is the best cd ripping program, hands down, plus it's absolutely free. I think the guy only asks that you send him a postcard or something. Make sure that you get the LAME encoder, as it is widely regarded as the best encoder out there....oh yeah, and it's free too! The only thing i can say that's bad about EAC is that it does take quite a while to rip an entire cd, on the order of about 20-25 min per cd in Variable 192 kbps. But the sound quality of these mp3's is really good, so it's worth the wait. EAC will check and double check every bit against the original for accuracy. You can also set the option in EAC to choose speed over quality when ripping, if you want speedy rips instead of real high quality ones. I highly, highly recommend to anyone who rips cd's into mp3 to get EAC!!

-TAI