CD drive needed for ripping.

[MCH]

That depends. Most protections violated the Red Book standard. If a drive adheres religiously to the standard, you will never be able to read that disc using that drive. Many drive firmwares accept some deviation from the standard and it depends on the manufacturer's choice what is ignored or corrected and what will result in no-read or read error scenario.

I distinctly remember this being a problem with a few discs in the early 2000s, but not anymore since then. I assume many drive firmwares were "adapted" after a couple of years? That's all speculation, of course.

Correct, the anti copy CDs don't have the red book logo, and were relatively common in those years, I would say one in 20 discs from that era in my collection .

 

[LTig]

Knowingly I've seen one copy protected disk (Mensch by Grönemeyer) which I had borrowed. It did not play in my CD player, probably because it was a semi professional CD recorder (Tascam CDRW 700) using a computer drive. My Plextor drive in the PC however just ripped it without any problems. I remember people telling similar stories so copy protection became known as playback protection.

 

[Snarfie]

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[LTig]

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[Redacted]

Not that far back!

I think it was more 1982.


JSmith

Are you kidding me? I was sure I was listening to Mozart who had died not long before, on CD

Of course I know the dates!

 

[Petrushka]

Is it an issue if you only need to spend £15 to rip? As I say, many hundreds of CD ripped, no issues.

I ripped 1300 CDs over a three month period using EAC.

Nearly all of them were bought used, and many had visible sctatches.

Well cared for CDs present no problems, but imperfect ones took a long time to read. Some. drives seemed to handle this better than others, but this only presented itself as ripping speed. My current $20 half height drive makes accurate rips.

 

[Barossan]

It can be important to ensure the external bus-powered drives are getting enough power - different ports put out different amounts of power, and different drives react differently to low power settings. I’ve got a usb powered verbatim blu ray drive that won’t work at all on some ports, works great on others and throws errors on others. You might need a powered usb hub or y-cable if you have trouble getting reliable outcomes.