On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 06:11:23PM +0200, Gen Hadlow Mac Impact Dbn wrote: : : I have just purchased the new Lauren Hill unplugged CD. Its a double album : and I want to now place it onto my iPod. However it seems to have some sort : of barring that wont allow it to play on my Mac. Yes, it's one of the new discs that are actually not Compact Discs. : Does anyone know of some sort of easy work around that I can use to fix this : problem. : One of my friends mentioned that one can colour in some place on the CD with : a permanent marker but I just donĀ¹t see exactly where to do this. This site talks about it and offers some workarounds: http://ukcdr.org/issues/cd/docs/celdion.shtml My suggestion: if the workarounds work, rip it. If the workarounds don't work, forget it. Either way, return the CD and demand a full refund because you were sold a product that was falsely advertised to be a CD, i.e. a Compact Disc(tm), when it actually is not (the scheme used to "protect" the disc causes it to no longer comply with the official "Red Book" standard and thus are no longer real audio CDs). -- Eugene Lee http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/