w3wilkes wrote: > I highly doubt that the Flim and the bb's TriCycle album wouldn't rip > because of some kind of copy protection. It was the first non-classical > album to be released on CD and is one of the first DDD (all digital) > recordings. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flim_%26_the_BB's > It was one of the first CD's I got. Christmas 1983 I got this album, > Dark Side of the Moon and my first CD player - a Yamaha cd-300 I think, > ancient!
Not sure about the detail on who was first. TriCycle was recorded digitally in 1978 and then pressed to vinyl. Ry Cooder's Bop Till You Drop was recorded digitally and released as a CD in 1979, and is generally credited as the first popular CD release. But there is some ambiguity in the sequence as reported in the ultra reliable source, Wikipedia (note sarcasm); the following is from the "Digital Recording" article: -------------------------- - In 1978, Sound 80 Records of Minneapolis records "Flim and the BB's" (S80-DLR-102) directly to digital before pressing the vinyl LP. The mastering engineer is Bob Berglund. The recording system is a 3M Digital Audio Mastering System. - In 1979, the first digital Compact Disc prototype was created as a compromise between sound quality and size of the medium. - In 1979, the first digitally recorded album of popular music Bop 'Til You Drop by guitarist Ry Cooder is released by Warner Bros. Records. The album was recorded in Los Angeles on a 32-track digital machine built by the 3M corporation. -------------------------- That's actually one of my favorite Cooder recordings, although he has since said he hates the sound of it. R. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ RonM's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17029 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95871 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/ripping
