“When a copy-protected CD hit No. 1 on the U.S. music sales charts last month, it marked a breakthrough for the antipiracy technology in all but one sense: The music still wouldn’t play on Apple’s iPod,” John Borland writes for CNET News. “A copy-protected CD recently hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts–without iPod compatibility. Still, some say CDs will have to play nice with the iPod if antipiracy technology is to succeed. That means the door may be closing on Microsoft, and opening for Apple’s own FairPlay technology.”
“Now the two companies responsible for most copy-protected CDs are scrambling to create new versions of their technologies that are compatible with Apple’s popular digital music player. In the process, they’re both making substantial changes in the way CDs are digitally locked, changes that could ultimately be a setback to recent Microsoft strides into the music business,” Borland writes.
Full article here.
Was it only incompatible with PC iTunes or Mac iTunes too ?
I’ve never had a problem ripping ‘protected’ CDs on my Mac as long as I use a DVD reader.
Do people still buy physical CDs?
not I, been years lol
I haven’t bought a physical CD in 3 years….
Do album CD’s still exist?
I haven’t bought a physical CD in 3 years….
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[I]Or, you know, Apple could just supply WMA compatibility, which it actually rips out of its iPods before shipping them to customers. Just a thought.
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Yes, they could – but what commercial benefit would they gain from it!
I now know that Norm Petersen from Cheers was modelled on Paul: this kind of delusional thinking can only be the result of our favourite New Englander drinking 20 glasses of what Americans laughingly refer to as ‘beer’.
best quote: “If the labels start hearing that the reason people aren’t buying an album is because it won’t work on the iPod, then you’ll see some reaction.”
i had to buy a physical CD a couple weeks ago because ITMS did not have it online – and i wanted to have quality electronic files.
Damn RIAA – burn in hell!
Seeing as how I’ll NEVER buy a copy-protected CD, I guess I’ll have to wait for the boot-legged version.
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What? Microsoft in danger of being shut out by Apple’s proprietary standard? Just shows you that you eventually pay for your bad karma: what goes around does indeed come around.
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I only buy real CDs. I don’t need no steenkin’ DRM, even fairplay. And I’d prefer full quality from which to rip too. And the artwork/liner notes.
Call me old fashioned if you will, but I don’t like that the useage rights can change on stuff you’ve ‘bought’. They could, in theory, change the DRM on the stuff you’ve bought to say you can’t use it on your iPod and you can only play it on one Mac/one PC.
My library is 100% Fairplay and WMA free.
well, microsoft isn’t entirely shut out because there is still itunes for windows. microsoft just has to concede that they’re losing the jukebox and portable player battle and cut its losses and make a deal with apple
I still buy CD’s. Lots of them. The M4A and MP3 formats are good enough for portable players, but they sound like crap through any decent home stereo system. iPod is very cool for what it does (I’m never without mine) but high fidelity audio it ain’t.
Apple needs to add a full-CD quality download option to iTMS–or at least their lossless format. They will never get true audiophiles as long as the format is 128 AAC.
This may be the make or break as far as iPod’s future success goes. If Apple refuses to license the technology to Macrovision and Sunncomm, iPod’s aren’t of much use to most people who still buy cd’s (i.e., the vast majority of music consumers). Apple needs to get Fairplay out to these companies, or the next portable player purchase for many people won’t be an iPod. I’m not arguing that they license to other portables, simply to the companies that do copy protection on cd’s.
>>Apple needs to add a full-CD quality download option to iTMS–or at least their lossless format. They will never get true audiophiles as long as the format is 128 AAC.
Hairbo, I don’t think that audiophiles are the target group of an online music service. There have been tests enough to show that self-described audiophiles pushing fifty can’t tell a CD track apart from a compressed track. The small minority that can hear (usually young people or desert dwellers) and appreciate the difference are too small a group to be worth the effort.
The real audiophile doesn’t even use CDs. They should rather add static noise and rumble to the tracks so that they sound like vinyl records (just kidding).
I’ve already emailed the two companies, [url=http://www.macrovision.com]http://www.macrovision.com[/url] and [url=http://www.sunncomm.com]http://www.sunncomm.com,[/url] referred to in the article, making it known that consumers do not want copy-protected CD’s. At the very least, there should be an option to load the songs on an iPod. All Mac fans should do the same to send a message that we’re not interested in playing WMA on a Napster player or any other player. Right now, they’re heading down the Micro$oft path.
Silly moo-cows — a copy protection label in a CD is an incentive to get it from p2p.
Good on yer, beatsme!
Those on this forum who ask silly/sarcastic questions such as are there still such things as physical CD’s, reveal (unwittingly?) that they have very bad stereo systems, no taste, or no ear whatever for music – or any combination of those.
A bought CD is far superior in sound quality to anything you can get on the internet.
iPod fan, that was the whole point of the article, to show that the companies are working to make iPod-compatible solutions.
*evil laugh* Feel the Wrath of Apple/iPod.
What is a “CD”? I once heard of something called an “8 Track”. Is this “CD” they refer to similar to that?
“A bought CD is far superior in sound quality to anything you can get on the internet.” – Charko
Interesting that someone who seems to profess to know so much would make such a statement. As if audiophiles would even listen to CD music. Ever heard of DVD-audio?
the people who pay for cds are not pirates, so it silly to put all these restrictions on them. a bootlegged version will always surface, and someone will crack the protection; shift key anyone……
i bought a copy protected cd once and took it right back to the store. who listens to cds anymore? plus im not going to support that crap, i dont want to do anything illegal, just listen to the music on my computer