Info on Key2Audio protection

[krisb]

I have just discovered something really cool but "Strange". I recent purchased the Star Wars Ep II soundtrack in the UK by Sony. This disc has on the front "Will not play on PC/MAc" and is protected by Key2Audio by Sony. Yep the disc don't play on anything except my Hi-fi but Padus CDRWin5.0 WILL allow you to rip it at ANY bitrate without any problems!!

my setup is PIII 933, XP Pro, Teac CD540e reader and Sony CDRX -140 CDRW. My Computer will not read/display disc in drive when inserted, but run up CDRWin and you get a 3 session CD with session 1 with the CDDA trax, session2 with a CD-XA 1 trax and Session 3 as an unfinished session. All i did was open session 1, selected all the audio trax and then converted to MP3. They seem to work and sound great- I can now listen to them on my laptop and any where else I fancy (BTW Sony, not everyone has in car cd players!).

This is how it should be- you buy the disc and should be able to choose where to listen to it- not in HI-FIs only. Hope this info helps- could anyone please give me some feedback with other key2audio cds.