I got this thread up while researching in vain for most of yesterday for a method to encode my fresh from the shop copy of Welcome to the North by The Music (freedb page: http://www.freedb.org/freedb_search_...ck&id=ad10130d)

it opens a wmmp.exe to play the files, and says 128k stereo, so its got wma files on there somewhere.
Ripping one of the tracks using EAC (after trying to copy/rip it with clone, alcohol, and windows media player-resulting in clicks every 10 seconds or so, or even completely garbled.) took 30 mins and gave me the message There Were Errors. It could show me where the errors were and try to repair, but not exactly useful when some of the clicks and gaps were too big to repair.

This computer is pretty old, and only has an 8 speed Ricoh rewriter. Clony finds None or Unknown, but from the symptoms I think its cactus.

After no successful playing without the player.exe. I opened Nero used Save Tracks to list them and clicked play on the same track, expecting a click at 10 seconds, I waited for half the track to go by with no clicks, set it to copy using analogue, and 11 lames later, I'm the proud owner of an mp3 copy of the album (which I'm going to have to ID3 myself) which I'm playing loud

As its the only copy protected cd I have, I can't test nero for any other cds, but I thought it may be of interest to somebody.

I swear, I was tempting to run off 100 copies and set up a stall outside my house to get the record companies back for making it such a pain in the arse to listen to music I own on my own mp3 player.

Its a pisstake.