Your whole response is based on a assumption that something else is causing my CD to not seen as a CD-Audio disk after AnyDVD does little for it.
The original cd that you have loads a software player program at autostart, and it's entirely possible that doing so is not good (I don't know much about that software firsthand, because I refuse to let it install on my systems). That assumption is a logical guess/probability, considering the disc that you're using does contain that software . . .
You have absolutely no evidence to assume anything about my machine
Other than the fact that copy control cds do try to load something with autostart enabled?
and yet BS, after BS you spout
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If AnyDVD cannot deal with protection on this album
Who says it can't? The Norah Jones cd contains the same copy control stuff that EMI published on other cds. I have no issues ripping these discs with Anydvd running in the background. I can then play those rips with any software player that can handle .wav files.
well, that's one matter and I am not expecting to Slysoft to fix everything, but don't blame the user or his machine if that is the case.
Anydvd probably won't help if you've already allowed the disc to load copy protection software onto your system. Same goes for dvd movies containing alpha-dvd rootkits. It's not Anydvd's fault that those types of programs may already be present on people's systems prior to using Anydvd. I don't know whether that is the case for you, but it's certainly a reasonable possibility.
I have a few EMI copy control cds. I put them in with Anydvd running in the background. When I load Windows Media Player 11 (just for you, because I hate WMP) and select any .cda file, the music plays. In addition to what I wrote earlier, that indicates to me Anydvd handles these cds perfectly fine.
So I am unable to reproduce your problem that you don't want me to make assumptions about.
On copy control cds the protection messes with the Red book standard. So that does make the disc not fit any accepted standard (which is what I wrote previously). And, as such, it's not Anydvd's responsibility to make whatever drive it is that you're using read these discs. Some aspects of the protection would be hardware dependent. Several things are happening with these discs that includes a multi-session (which may block the audio session from being seen), corrupted error-correction data (which makes some programs unable to rip the audio or take forever),
and drm protected audio content found on the data area/session of the cd (it seems to me that Anydvd is blocking the drm data session of the disc, which is a good thing).
Again, hold down the shift key when loading the disc . . . or
1) Use Anydvd
2) Insert the disc (I've tested these discs in Plextor, Lite-on, LG, and Samsung burners without any issues)
3) rip to .wav and do whatever you want to those files
And I can select any .cda from Windows Media Player 11 from the original copy control cd and listen to the music on the original disc with Anydvd running in the background.
