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![]() Join Date: Jul 2006
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Create a DRM-Free CD from a Copy-Protected CD (No Quality Loss!!)
I've already posted this in the sticky but I thought I would post it here as well so it gets more attention.
Some CD's I've purchased are copy protected and it's very easy to create a new disk WITHOUT any protection and without ANY loss in quality (NUDDA!!). I don't no how many CDs use this kind of protection but I might as well post about it anyway. With a standard audio CD all the Audio tracks are stored in the first session of a disk. However on some copy protected CD's the record company creates a 2nd session in which all the crappy copy protection methods are. CD Players will only read the first session of any audio cd, however computers will read all sessions hence why copy protected CD's will work in CD Players and not on computers. All we need to do is create a CD image of the first session of the audio CD and burn it to a blank CD. (An image of a CD is a single file/multiple files in which every byte of data from the audio CD is copied to a/multiple files onto you computer. Because there is no compression of the data, the CD at the end of this tutorial is an EXACT copy of the CD before [Accept the copy protection] ;-)) Tutorial: 1) Download a copy of CloneCD. It's on a time trial: Download CloneCD 2) Insert your CD and load up CloneCD 3) Click on "Read to image file" ![]() 4) Select your CD Drive with the copy protected CD in ![]() 5) The disk will be analysed. You will be brung to a window with info on the CD (Note: Notice on the right hand side how there are two session 2, this is the copy protection. You wont only the first session made into an CD image) Right click within the white area and select "New" ![]() 6) Right click that profile and press "edit". Now enter these settings: ![]() ![]() ![]() (PLEASE NOTE: The sound extraction quality does not count. We're not extracting the audio we're simply creating a file of the data on the CD. If we were ripping the tracks into MP3, AAC than this will count) 7) Press OK and rename the profile to something like "Copy-Protected CD's". Click on this profile and press "next" ![]() 8) Locate where you want the CD image to be saved to. Click ok (Note: Look at the left hand box. Notice how all the tracks on the CD are in the first session and there are 2 tracks on the 2nd session. These are the tracks that prevent copying etc and by not including session 2 in the CD image you have made a 1:1 copy of the audio CD without protection) ![]() 9) CloneCD will begin to create an 1:1 image of the first session of the CD (Where all the CD tracks are) File size varies but it should be between 600mb-700mb depending on the amount of tracks and the length of tracks. 10) Once CloneCD has created the image (you'll hear a lil charm play) we need to burn this image to create a 1:1 copy of the audio CD (bar the protection). (PLEASE NOTE: The CD image created will come out as 3 files) 11) One the CloneCD has finished copying the disk click "Ok" in the CD reading window. ![]() 12) Insert a Blank CD and go back into CloneCD. Select the "Write to image file" option ![]() 13) When the new window opens the image file you previously created should be listed in the box in the top left. Click next ![]() 14) After the blank CD has been analysed you'll get the window listed below. Select the "audio CD" option and click "Ok". Your new non-copy protection CD will be burnt and you now have an exact copy of your audio cd WITHOUT PROTECTION Sorry for any spelling and grammar mistakes I rushed it ![]() Last edited by Lost-Prophet; 07-24-2006 at 09:08 AM. |
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