>From: Johan Vromans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> This Key2audio protection DOES NOT WORK. I've just bought a SONY MUSIC
>> audio cd which is Key2audio protected (last album of Ozark Henry).
>> [...]
>> There was an eleventh track which was recognized as data by WinOnCD. All I
>> did was not dropping it with the audio tracks in the tracks windows of the
>> soft.
>It is a multi-session CD. The first session contains the audio tracks.
>The second session contains a small data track (probably with
>irrelevant contents). The CD is left open, which is what confuses CD
>readers in PCs. I once accidentally produced and audio CD that was
>left open, and it confused the ordinary CD players as well (after
>playing the last track they got confused). So I think the 2nd session
>is to prevent audio players from running into problems.
>Funny thing is that, if your system provides image copying of audio
>CDs, everything is copied okay but the copied CD is no longer copy
>protected.
Most of these broken disks (non-CD's) will be read in wihtout problems
using cdda2wav from cdrtools-1.11a12
Jörg
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