[Dixielandjazz] Fw: CD audio query.

[D. Ohlwein]

Pat ..

Might be what you're after?

Clone CD will make digital copy of any copy protected disc.

http://www.slysoft.com/en/clonecd.html

Exit stage left,
D Ohlwein

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:14 AM, <andy.ling at quantel.com> wrote:

> Pat Ladd wrote on 12/06/2009 18:53:56:
>
> > copy protected disc>>
> >
> > It has been suggested to me that if you run a line from your `analogue
> out`
> > to the `analogue in` of the machine you are trying to record onto this
> > bypasses the anti copy stuff which is digital.
> >
> > Sounds too simple to be true to me  cos I know nossing, but the guy who
> told
> > me is a bit of a whizz
> >
>
> Yes, this works no problem. It's just like recording the output of
> your Hi-Fi with a cassette recorder.
>
> As others have mentioned, you do loose some quality converting from
> digital to analogue and back again and you get what you hear. So
> any clicks and pops will be recorded.
>
> The other problem is speed. You can only record in "real-time" So
> if the CD is an hour long it will take an hour to record (without
> fancy stuff to speed things up). Whereas if you can copy the CD
> digitally you can do it much faster. Speeds around 5 minutes for
> a 1 hour CD are quite normal.
>
> There was a system a while back to try and stop people doing this
> sort of thing with video tapes. The original would have high
> output spikes put in the hidden bit of the video. This would
> fool the automatic bit of the recorder and get it to turn
> the record level down. This made it record the video at too
> low a level to be viewable.
>
> I'm not aware of anything like this for audio though.
>
> Regards
>
> Andy Ling
>
>
>
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