Comments on: Use Sony DRM, Format Your Hard Drive

By: Zits101

Zits101 — Fri, 02 May 2008 08:58:22 +0000

Um, one way to get the audio into the PC minus DRM is hook a CD player up to your computer via stereo cord and record it via Audacity!

By: Awful Show Keyz

Awful Show Keyz — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 15:37:08 +0000

It is time to go old school on Sony. For anyone unable to resist the temptation to buy any Sony CDs, take a regular CD player, put the disk in and connect the CD player’s output to your sound card. Then with a copy of GoldWave (or any other preferred WAV recorder/editor) record all the tracks right from the player. Edit the complete file down to the individual tracks, convert them to MP3 and SHARE THEM EVERYWHERE!!! While there are some 256 kbps audiophiles out there who might complain about the quality, the rest of us will be very pleased with final music files. Fuck Sony in the ass with a splintery wooden dildo!

P.S. Sandman, die in a fire, you fucking loser.

By: Josh

Josh — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:23:24 +0000

For those of you with Windows XP who already had the software from this album installed on your computer against your will, after 6 long hours, I have figured out how to rip it anyway, and it does not even require deleting the software. It’s not too difficult of a process. It does require you have Windows Media Player, though, but most people do.

This is what I did:
1) First of all, obviously, disable AutoRun. If you don’t know how to do this, go to Start, click on Run, then type “regedit” (without the quotation marks, of course) and execute. Then open the following folders: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > CurrentControlSet > Services > Cdrom. In that last one, double click on “AutoRun”, change the “Value data” to 0, and hit OK. Restart your computer before you do anything else involving the CD.
2) Now, this next step is assuming you’ve already tried in vain to rip the CD and the software has already installed itself on your computer. Insert the CD. Do NOT open iTunes, you will not be able to use that to rip. You will be ripping the CD using Windows Media Player and can then put the files into iTunes if you want them on your iPod. Open Windows Media Player, let it recognize the CD, and open the Rip tab, choose the file format you want to rip to (personally I like MP3s because they’re small), but do NOT start ripping yet.
3) Open your Control Panel, click on Performance and Maintenance, then click on System. Open the Hardware tab and click on Device Manager. Click View on the taskbar and click “Show Hidden Devices”. Scroll down until you find “SbcpHid”.
Now before you do any of the following, just remember that WHENEVER DEVICE MANAGER ASKS YOU TO RESTART TO CHANGE YOUR HARDWARE SETTINGS, CLICK NO. You do NOT need to restart your computer to rip the CD.
Right click “SbcpHid” and click Disable. As I said above, DO NOT RESTART. (Also, do NOT click Uninstall, as uninstalling the driver DOES require restarting the computer, and because of that doing so is futile, for the driver will simply reinstall itself on recognition of the CD after restarting.) Right click it again and open Properties. Click the Driver tab. Where it says Current Status, hit Stop, then hit OK. Once again, DO NOT RESTART.
4) Go back into Windows Media Player and click Start Rip. This should rip the CD fine, without garbled tracks or anything. For the second disc, just insert the CD, close and reopen Windows Media Player, and rip it. Then, if you want them on your iPod, just put the files into iTunes, obviously.

Mission accomplished.

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:53:14 +0000

another alternative is to bag corporate music altogether and listen to the many wonderful underground bands that exist… just saying….. I have never had a punk rock cd/record with DRM on it

By: Luke

Luke — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:47:14 +0000

DRM runs contrary to the rights of “fair use” the Supreme Court has laid down. Anyone with DRM software on a favorite CD/DVD should study the case law in case the MIPAA comes a knockin.