Help Y'all! I am temping and trying to play a CD at work that's COPY CONTROLLED (1 Viewer)

[Dave Mack]

Greetings!

This is not one of those evil Sony Cd's with the rootkit thingy. It's a European Queen CD released by Parlophone. When I put it in the computer (Windows) a window pops up saying that Windows needs to download new software in order to play the CD which I think is ASS. But that's just me. I almost NEVER play CDs on a computer so I haven't run into this yet. After hearing of the Sony rootkit fiasco I am very wary of downloading ANYTHING...
Can anyone help? Turns out I think I own quite a few of these type of CDs...

Thanks! D

 

[David Brown Eyes]

Go to Best Buy or where ever you purchased the cd and tell them it is defective.

If they ask way say "I can not put the songs on my I-pod"

 

[Steve Berger]

Have you tried holding the "shift" key down when inserting the disk to stop autoplay; then starting the player application? Probably worth a try.

 

[Aaron Silverman]

If it has the official Compact Disc logo on it, you can say it's defective because it claims to be a CD but doesn't meet the specs.

 

[Andrew Bunk]

A great tweak for XP that everyone should know, quoted from www.musicxp.net:

 

[Dave Mack]

Thanks guys! I actually ordered it from the Uk and on my home player it's fine. I honestly don't usually use a computer EVER to listen to CDs but I am temping at an office for 3 weeks and was curious. It is parlophone which I assume is a pretty big label in Europe as Queen is on them there. Is this similar to a Sony copy protection thingy here?

d

 

[EricSchulz]

I know that alot of UK and Japanese CDs have some form of copy protection on them, but I don't know which companies/titles have it or how it works in comparison to the stuff Sony tried.