Problems With New Audio CD

[Paul B Mahol]

On 4/7/10, Programmer In Training <pit at joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote:
> On 04/07/10 12:42, Kevin Kinsey wrote:
>> Programmer In Training wrote:
>>> I would go to questions, but I'm not sure it's relevant there so I
>>> thought I'd ask here.
>>>
>>> I just received a new, never been unwrapped before I touched it, audio
>>> CD (Santcus Real, Pieces of a Real Heart). I can play it via 'cdcontrol
>>> play' but it won't play in VLC, Audacious won't recognize it, and
>>> Asunder can't rip it (for my fair use copy).
>>
>> Tried lame?
> <snip>
>
> lame is an encoder, so no, I haven't tried using it to rip the cd.
>
> Here is the output from cdparanoia though:
>
> cdparanoia -B -d /dev/cd0
> cdparanoia III release 9.8 (March 23, 2001)
> (C) 2001 Monty <monty at xiph.org> and Xiphophorus
> FreeBSD porting (c) 2003
>         Simon 'corecode' Schubert <corecode at corecode.ath.cx>
>
> Report bugs to paranoia at xiph.org
> http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/
>
> 006: Could not read any data from drive
>
> Cdparanoia could not find a way to read audio from this drive.
>
> So ripping seems to be out, as does playing unless I want to use
> 'cdcontrol' (which is an option, but highly annoying).

Perhaps it is DRM protected?