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Stations Can't Play Crippled Music Disks

Posted by michael on from the dead-air dept.

arb writes "The Age is reporting that some radio stations are unable to play copy-protected CDs. It seems at least one radio station is facing problems transferring CD tracks to their digital playout system. Is the lack of radio air-play a price the record labels are willing to pay in their efforts to stamp out piracy?"

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  1. I've paid for 1,4kbit on a CD by Schugy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    and until now I've made wav-Files of any CD out there. Now I have a copy of every "protected CD" and one more in my Ogg Vorbis archive (oggenc -q5). Still wonder why the people use an obsolete audio compression codec generation like MP3 or others. Schugy