While this is slightly OT, it goes to the heart of the problems the record labels create for themselves.
Case in point: While ripping music in for our new format "The Penthouse", I was thumbing through the shelves for a cut or two that I might have missed and ran across a "advance CD" copy sent by CDX to us a few years ago "for promotional use" of Ray Charles' "Genius Loves Company". Perfect, I thought. I grabbed it and stuck it in the CD of my computer to create a WAV of a couple of choice cuts (Diana Krall's duet with Ray was the one I really wanted) and was greeted by a licensing screen. Ripping a cut from the same machine that we used to rip thousands of cuts for various station libraries gave me a skipping file. I launched the FLASH-based licensing wizard and after agreeing to whatever they wanted allowed it to access the Internet and add "licenses" to the computer. As #12 or 12 rolled in, Internet Explorer blows up. Tried the whole process again...same result. CD is now embedded in the wall of my office.
I recall that a friend was working on a project for a jazz record label's own website and had to create digital files of songs. It seems every CD she received from this (unnamed) company was copy-protected to prevent anyone from creating digital copies. I forget how that project turned out, but I'll bet it was a bit tardy.
Anyone experience this sort of #$%?
CJ
www.thepenthouseradio.com
Case in point: While ripping music in for our new format "The Penthouse", I was thumbing through the shelves for a cut or two that I might have missed and ran across a "advance CD" copy sent by CDX to us a few years ago "for promotional use" of Ray Charles' "Genius Loves Company". Perfect, I thought. I grabbed it and stuck it in the CD of my computer to create a WAV of a couple of choice cuts (Diana Krall's duet with Ray was the one I really wanted) and was greeted by a licensing screen. Ripping a cut from the same machine that we used to rip thousands of cuts for various station libraries gave me a skipping file. I launched the FLASH-based licensing wizard and after agreeing to whatever they wanted allowed it to access the Internet and add "licenses" to the computer. As #12 or 12 rolled in, Internet Explorer blows up. Tried the whole process again...same result. CD is now embedded in the wall of my office.
I recall that a friend was working on a project for a jazz record label's own website and had to create digital files of songs. It seems every CD she received from this (unnamed) company was copy-protected to prevent anyone from creating digital copies. I forget how that project turned out, but I'll bet it was a bit tardy.
Anyone experience this sort of #$%?
CJ
www.thepenthouseradio.com
