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Topic: Charley Pride CD doesn't play |
Greg Cutshaw
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Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 20 Feb 2002 9:37 pm |
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My dad bought the latest Charley Pride CD and it will not play in either one of his DVD players (an older RCA and a newer Teac) nor will it play in his Harmon Kardon dual deck. Although the Harmon Kardon is capable of making both digital and analog copies, the Pride CD will not even Play in either side of the deck, one of which is intended for Audio Cd playback. The Pride Cd does play in both of his Kenwood car CD players.
All of our other CD's (100's of them) including commercially made Audio CD's, homemade Audio CD-R's and computer Data CD-R's ALL play in ALL of the players. According to what I have read, Pride is one of the first to take advantage of a new copy protection scheme. This scheme is supposed to prevent digital copies made either on an Audio CD deck or a computer Data CD drive. On the computer drive it does this by encoding each song length as only a few seconds so the computer CD-R drive records a few seconds of the song then shuts down.
All technology and copy issues aside, we can't even play this disk in our house. This puppy is going back to Best Buy for a refund and Pride can hopefully suffer lost sales due to this.
Greg |
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Red Kilby
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Pueblo, CO, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 20 Feb 2002 10:21 pm
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| Is it the Charley Pride Sings Jim Reeves CD?? If so it was designed to not be able to record it<<<<<<<. It was the 1st CD to have that feature, that might have something to do with it, I have a copy of it and it plays fine. |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2002 7:12 am
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Red, it is the "sings Jim Reeves" CD and I don't mind not being able to record it but I DO mind not being able to play it. ALL of our CD's from Bear family sets to AUDIO and DATA CD-R's play on ALL of our players. THis does include 100's of CD's and only the Charley Pride CD does not play on any of our DVD players or the HArmon Kardon deck. We use our DVD players a lot with our stereo systems to play CD's so we don't have to have a dedicated separate CD player. The PRide CD does play fine in all of our Car decks and on my old Technics deck which I don't have wired into my system anymore. Why does one guy or a few people have to create something so unique. If I wanted to record it, I can play it back on my Technics deck and make a really good anoalog copy to any CD-R. The fact that they made it unplayable on a large number of players boggles my mind.
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Red Kilby
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Pueblo, CO, USA * R.I.P.
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Posted 21 Feb 2002 7:38 am
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I have no clue, Greg. What I would do is maybe get another one and try it. And maybe contact the company that put it out,Rajon Music Group. I know it does not make any sense. Take care, I hope you get it to work.
FYI<<<<<<. Just to let you know the import version of this CD has 21 songs on it If you can find a copy, its better than the US version, and has a different cover. |
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2002 12:39 pm
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Quote from the reviewer at CDNOW:
"One non-musical caveat: The CD is copy-protected, and cannot be played by anything but a standard audio player. If you wish to use your computer to listen to the music that you purchased on CD, you'll have to go to the website of the company providing the protection technology and download, one at a time, Windows Media file versions of the 15 tracks (and if you own a Mac, you're simply out of luck). Intellectual property holders have legitimate concerns about piracy these days, but this is a ham-handed and unjustifiable response to the problem."
Stuart Munro
CDNOW Contributing Writer
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Greg Cutshaw
From:
Corry, PA, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2002 12:55 pm
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More from: http://uk.eurorights.org/issues/cd/bad/
"Charley Pride CD "A tribute to Jim Reeves": It turns out that this CD (the subject of a lawsuit in the US) is available in the UK from amazon.co.uk. This uses the SunnComm protection that stops the CD from being played in DVDs and computers. When put into a computer it redirects Windows users to a web-site to download audio files for Windows Media Player (about 3 hours download on a 56K modem). There is a very small label on the package, which fails to fully describe the limitations of the CD, with no mention at all on the Amazon site. See Dan Ackroyd's analysis here. Recent news is that the audio data is corrupted on the CD, and it registers around 7/9 on the corruption scale of a pro-machine." (end quote)
Amazon.com in the UK has the import version on backorder for L15.99.
Also we found out that this CD plays all tracks just fine in the car but only plays 13 tracks on my standard Audio CD player.
What a mess! I'll go after the import version after they have fixed the corrupt data problem. as it stands now the import UK version has the copy protection as the US version.
Greg
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Donny Hinson
From:
Glen Burnie, Md. U.S.A.
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Posted 21 Feb 2002 3:22 pm
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How ridiculous! Obviously, those in the music industry think they're loosing big bucks to "pirates". Truth is, they fail to see the real reason (exhorbitant prices). If the people can't "rip" CD's, they just won't buy, or borrow them!. People will find another means of entertainment (they always do), and some 14 year-old kid will figure a way around anything...we all know that! 
Duh!!! Anyone with an old analog tape recorder can get around any of their goofy schemes. (I predict a big market now for used tape recorders on ebay!) The whole copy-guard thing is just a band-aid that's going to do nothing more than jump up and bite them in the ass, anyway. (The way it did in the video-tape industry.)
Watch for another dip in sales soon, and then watch as they blame it on everyone but themselves!
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Jim Smith
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Midlothian, TX, USA
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Posted 21 Feb 2002 3:28 pm
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| some 14 year-old kid will figure a way around anything |
A guy at work told me they've already cracked this scheme!  |
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