What's to stop anyone from recording the audio from protected CD to another medium (DAT, MiniDisk) and then ripping that to an mp3 directly? Sure, it may take more time and energy, but the same result can be achieved.
I use this technique to rip vinyl records to mp3s... Turntable out to MiniDisk, line in to a digital 8-track program on my computer, and then compress it to an mp3. The only problem I've found is a slight loss of quality from the original audio, although the sound quality of an mp3 is lacking anyway, I doubt anyone would notice. Just my two cents.
It's all good. Sorry about blowing up. Just a wee bit tired over here. I finally broke down and installed Linux over my entire hard drive, not just a partition of it. Runs like a charm, but took a while to configure, but it's done. Now I can snooze... let's call a truce, shall we?
On the subject of that racist asshole TRoLL, kick his ass, I hate guys like him.
I clicked on the hyperlink to read the article, only to find that I had forgotten what I was going to do with the jumble of text before my eyes! After this problem surfaced, a landslide of technical problems arose. Where's the 'back' button on my browser? What's this 'Slashdot' website thing? Who am I? How did I get here? What day is it? Help me, for I am stupid!
DocMarten
'The vastness of space and time, and I end up here?!'
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What's to stop anyone from recording the audio from protected CD to another medium (DAT, MiniDisk) and then ripping that to an mp3 directly? Sure, it may take more time and energy, but the same result can be achieved.
I use this technique to rip vinyl records to mp3s... Turntable out to MiniDisk, line in to a digital 8-track program on my computer, and then compress it to an mp3. The only problem I've found is a slight loss of quality from the original audio, although the sound quality of an mp3 is lacking anyway, I doubt anyone would notice. Just my two cents.
On the subject of that racist asshole TRoLL, kick his ass, I hate guys like him.
I clicked on the hyperlink to read the article, only to find that I had forgotten what I was going to do with the jumble of text before my eyes! After this problem surfaced, a landslide of technical problems arose. Where's the 'back' button on my browser? What's this 'Slashdot' website thing? Who am I? How did I get here? What day is it? Help me, for I am stupid! DocMarten 'The vastness of space and time, and I end up here?!'