Good Charlette - Young/Hopless....It's weird, all my normal players can play it, I can't see how though? When I place the CD in the computer drive it seems to be able to read it, but I can't SEE the "Audio" files with Explorer. I've opened ALL sub-folders and they contain no "audio"?...How is it doing this and can I get around it?

Hope this not a "taboo" topic?

TY in advance

Use CloneCD to Read an image using the Audio CD option, then use Daemon Tools to mount the image, then use your favourite ripper software to extract the audio There are other ways to do it, even old DOS software does a good job. If it's a multisession CD, you can edit the CD with a felt tipped pen to remove the software that prevents you from 'seeing' .cda files on the CD.

Well using CloneCD isn't going to give you a bit-perfect rip... have you tried EAC? It is drive-specific, but at least with mine I haven't encountered a disc it couldn't read.

If its the same as my Good Charlotte, EAC has no chance ripping it, with any drive I put it in. The three methods that I listed all worked fine for me, my CD is in mint condition, so bit perfect rips arent that hard to achieve.

@Dilby ty I'll try this if I have to?
@jebus ty also..I'll try eac first?

EDIT...@Dilby looks like I'll be resorting to method one?

Just make sure you use the Audio CD option, not the Multimedia Audio CD, otherwise you'll likely still have the same problem.

If you can track down a copy of EAC version prebeta 3, you should be able to rip the CD using 'Manual TOC detection'. Google is your friend.

@yahknow1

Have you tried holding down the Shift button while inserting the CD?
It usually prevent Autoplay to 'play' the protection scheme.

Try insert the CD _AFTER_ you run EAC. It helped me on some cd's.

i allways had success with dbpoweramp (but again, it depends on the cd-drive)

It sounds like it's a CD extra. This is normal behavior for a CD extra disc to see folders with data but not the true audio track markers.

CDex will see the track markers and rip the songs for you.

EAC PB3 doesnt work, shift doesnt work, CDex doesnt work, it doesnt matter when you insert the CD, I havent tried dBPowerAmp, but i dont like its chances.

Edit: dBpowerAMP won't rip it either!

>Edit: dBpowerAMP won't rip it either!

Try Options Drop Menu >> Standard CD Player Emulation >> Table of Contents Decection

That will read the correct Table of Contents a normal CD player will see, then it depends 100% on your drive being able to read out side the false lead in / out.

What drives have you tested this on?

The drive I use is a LG GCE-8526B. The drive reads the disc fine with the 3 methods that I mentioned in an earlier post.

>The drive reads the disc fine with the 3 methods that I mentioned in an earlier post

But that could be the 2nd session that is outside the real disc location, it might even look normal on the screen (correct track lengths)...