I've just got myself a portable mp3 player and have transferred a number of my CD's to the device.

I currently have 1 CD that I bought perfectly legally that has its own player installed on the CD and I am unable to view/copy any of the music files to my PC.

I have had a look on google and just found lots of nasty comments about BMG (the company behind this protection) from people with the same problem with their iPods, media libraries etc, but so far I have no solutions.

I have also emailed BMG about how I may copy these files, but I suspect I am going to get a dissatisfactory answer.

I was wondering if anyone else has come across a similar problem and if anyone has any ideas.

The only solution that I have thought of, to get the music I paid for, is to download an illegal copy - ludicrous!!!!

Try CloneXXL , at least the last time i used it worked lol

cya

Thanks for the tip, however, after downloading, it only told me what the protection was and didn't offer the ability to save the music.

However, from this I looked at a few reviews and found that Feurio should work. Downloaded and voila, I can listen to my legally purchased CD.

I think the lesson learnt here is don't buy copy protected CD's. I still can't see why this will reduce piracy, surely it will just reduce sales of products which are so incompatible with modern technologies, such as the iPod.

i haven't bought or ripped any copy protected cd yet, but what about isobuster and other cd analysing tools?
is the cd still within the specification? (does it have a cd logo?) if yes then it should be possible to rip

on the other hand is downloading music not illegal if you own the cd.
but if you use p2p you will upload it too and that is illegal

I always use a tool called "Easy CD-DA Extractor" by poikosoft. Handles copy control protections very well.

Hi
Try the "tesa" protection remove
The Protection is on a second session on the CD.
You can take an EDDING-Pen or a pice of tape to (temporary) destroy the Protection.
Voila...
The secon session should be visible in the center of the CD
good luck

if you installed the Sony XCP rootkit, yoy probably need to remove it. If you complain to Sony and give them a lot of information about yourself, they will send you an email that directs you to an uninstaller. The uninstaller is an ActiveX security nightmare that can't be recommended in goo conscience. There are instructions for removing the rootkit by hand online. Good luck.

Sony removed these CDs from the market, but apparently has other CD with even more troubling DRM (don't know the details myself) without the security problmes of the XCP rootkit. My reaction is to avoid Sony like the plague, avoid autoplay for media inserted into my computer, switch to OS X (did that before the Sony fiasco), and spew paranoid rants.

Good luck.

Alcohol 120% can handle 98% of all copy protections

well, then does anybody know how to copy protected PSX cd's? i have been searching on google but found nothing useful. it seems that those files are protected and computer just cant understand them because i get the strange error message when trying to copy them. i have some PSX games which are in old scratched cd's and i want to run them again on my old PSX

Afaik the PSX standard (perhaps unique) protection is called "LibCrypt". ClonyXXL + Profiler + CloneCD can handle this problem w/o the minimum problem. The real problem are the protections of the PS2 games