Hi, I have some few quick questions. My sister recently bought 2 cds from the internet (japanese). The first one is Sugizo - C:LEAR and the 2nd one GLAY: Beautiful Dreamer/Street Life.

Problem is, Sugizo CD doesn't show any tracks. It has one mpeg file with a few files and directories. One of the directories is called "CDPLUS". Is this a CD+ type? How do I play the audio tracks then? (My sister and I use foobar at the moment).

The second CD has its own problem. Somehow all the music is packed into a file called "YUCCA.CDS". We can only play the audio tracks using a special player that comes with the cd (which is pretty damn annoying). I also noticed that there's aWindows Media Format 7.1 Redistributable setup file located inside the CD (which happens to crash my comp as I'm typing this). Is it possible to use foobar to play this CD?

The most important thing is probably ripping these CDs. I need to convert them to mpc and put it in my home network's fileserver so my sis and I don't have to keep swapping cds. Any ideas?
Thank you in advance.

This seems to be "CD Extra" or Enhanced CD. It's a multisession disks with audio tracks first and a data track last. Of course, when you view it in Explorer, it will only show the data track. However, EAC et al should show the audio tracks which you can rip, encode and play with Foobar.



This is a copyprotected CD. The protection used is CDS 200, a Cactus Data Shield version. The YUCCA.CDS file contains low-quality, protected WMA copies of the original music tracks, which can't be played by Foobar. A CDS 200 protected CD grossly violates the CD Audio standard with numerous non-compliant mechanisms, especially wrong start times for the tracks and the lead out, illegal synchronization positions, illegal subcode modes, uncorrectable C2 errors, wrongly positioned P-bit, missing gaps, wrong lead-out encoding and wrong lead-in and lead-out in general, to name a few. To make it short, you might be able to rip this, but not every drive can handle this deliberate mess. You won't be able to play this CD with foobar.