Okay -- having now actually listened to it, I can say officially that, while I have no idea how authentic Teribus' debut album is, it definitely rocks. Fun, kicky pipe-and-drum work: nearly all of it is going straight into my Road Music mix...
Yargh! The *&^%ing CD has copy protection on it that won't let me upload the songs to my iPod. It's no %^@#ing use to me if I can't listen to it at work. I can't even get my computer to acknowledge that there's a CD in the drive.
No, that's not it -- I'm running pretty ordinary Windows XP SP2. (It was on my development laptop.)
I confess, I didn't actually check the rips to make sure they came out okay. But the disc showed up and played fine in iTunes, and it sounds like you didn't even get that. Are you sure it's not just a defective disk?
I'm not entirely sure of that, no, but I gave the CD to someone else, who was able to rip a copy in Linux, so he was able to get it to work, at the very least.
This isn't the first CD that I've had this happen with, so maybe there's something odd about my machine? I just assumed it was copy-protection each time.
It's actually pretty rare to come across copy-protection that modern PCs actually get stuck on -- I've probably ripped several hundred disks in a row without encountering a single one. Older PCs seem to have been worse about this: I've got at least one disk that rips just fine for me that I would swear didn't do so five years ago.
Mind, the most primitive forms of copy protection were simply to break the CD a little: it used to be that CD players were more tolerant of errors than PC CD-ROM drives, so something that played just fine was unrippable. But that seems to have stopped being the case some time ago. So I'm wondering if the CD is very slightly defective, and your CD-ROM drive isn't coping with it...
If you're gonna do this kind of music, there are several principles you have to adhere to, including: * Percussion is a lead instrument. * Death by syncopation. * Thirty-second notes are *slow*. * Your amps may go to 11, but my lungs go to 12.
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Date: 2008-08-14 09:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-08-19 02:42 pm (UTC)I confess, I didn't actually check the rips to make sure they came out okay. But the disc showed up and played fine in iTunes, and it sounds like you didn't even get that. Are you sure it's not just a defective disk?
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Date: 2008-08-20 12:05 am (UTC)Mind, the most primitive forms of copy protection were simply to break the CD a little: it used to be that CD players were more tolerant of errors than PC CD-ROM drives, so something that played just fine was unrippable. But that seems to have stopped being the case some time ago. So I'm wondering if the CD is very slightly defective, and your CD-ROM drive isn't coping with it...
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Date: 2008-08-14 10:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-08-15 01:53 am (UTC)If you're gonna do this kind of music, there are several principles you have to adhere to, including:
* Percussion is a lead instrument.
* Death by syncopation.
* Thirty-second notes are *slow*.
* Your amps may go to 11, but my lungs go to 12.
Yeah, they qualify.