At 11:37 PM 9/25/2003 -0400, Joel Bresler wrote: >I am digitizing a genre collection of music, and accessing the digital >files both via the RealOne player, and by hyperlinks from an Excel >spreadsheet. I cannot use these programs as an access point to what's on >the CD. > >It happens that I have an earlier, non-protected version of this particular >recording, so my question is more in anticipation of this nonsense >spreading than how to deal with this particular CD. > >By the way, these CDs do NOT bear the audio CD logo, since they don't >adhere to the Philips/Sony standards. I have not yet encountered such a recording - one of the advantages of the companies' lack of interest in classical music. I am told that some readers, notably Plextors, are not disturbed by many of the "protection" schemes. The rumors about a marker on the outer portion of the disc defeating the Cactus scheme are correct, but that would not be a recommended solution. The tracks should be accessible using a selector such as Session Selector in Easy CD Creator or Multimounter in Nero. They should also be extractable (not your objective, I know) with ISOBuster or CD/DVD Diagnostic (or the more costly Inspector). All of those are linked from the CD-R side of my WWW site. Mike [log in to unmask] http://www.mrichter.com/