Before you buy the new Foo Fighters disc
know that the geniuses at RCA have made it unplayable on iPods. I bought the set yesterday and was stoked to move it to my iPod and start listening. I have total confidence it is a terrific album. However, the asshats at RCA figured some anti-piracy trick and made it so you can't load the discs into iTunes. Good move, geniuses, alienating about 10 million rock fans.…
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26 - Shaker Designs
Find an older version of Itunes. I have 4.7.1 and it works fine.
27 - Tom Johnson
28 - steve
One of the best quotes on this subject:
"Trying to make a file uncopyable is like trying to make water not wet"
Be weary of using legacy versions of iTunes, since they have a tendency to force you to upgrade. They can drop support of their older versions which could prevent access to the iTunes Music Store.
29 - Tom Johnson
Sorry, Lono, I didn't see that I screwed up my link. Try here instead.
30 - Lono
to be fair, I have a friend at work who has iTunes seeing if she can crack it. Again, I can get the track onto iTunes, but they are jacked up. They sound like the 'spoofs' record companies load on peer to peer sites.
I absolutely intend to make this mofo play on my iPod, and then I absolutely intend to return it to Best Buy for a refund. This isn't about returning a CD, it is about returning software that doesn't work.
31 - chrisfig
um, for those asking about the shift key on the mac you don't need to, just import it. this does suck though...
32 - DJRadiohead
All the more reason to go Mac... for now. Copy protection rots.
33 - jarred
Use some of the older ripping programs such as Audio Grabber, they will rip almost anything, completley ignoring any copy protection. There is also much more flexability when using these programs. I would also reccommend ripping to MP3 as it contains no DRM controls, meaning you won't run into problems later on when you trade in your ipod for something else.
34 - Dillon
There are tons of artists doing this now. The latest Dave Matthews CD is that way. Here is the way around this:
First, use Windows Media player to rip the CD. When you first try to play the newly created MP3 file, it will license them and you will be able to play them on your PC.
Next, use Windows media player to burn them to a CD. This will create a CD that's not encrypted... meaning you will then be able to rip (the new CD), and then be able to transfer it to iPod or anything else as regular non-encrypted music.
They've made it a pain in the a$$, but now you just have to create a CD using the licensed MP3s, and then rip them back off of that CD as unlicensed.
-ds