Audio CD Copy Protection

I've just bought a CD that has copy protection so it won't play on PC or Mac (it says this on the label, but I didn't listen)...

Any easy ways around it, preferably on linux? I don't want to rip it, necessarily, just play it on PC.

Im sure there are plenty of ways around this using software off of the net, i think you will find it very difficult to find something for linux to do what you need......

Play from track 2, not track one.

Alternate way is to rip it to wav using Exact Audio Copier, then write it back to a standard audio CD.

or draw a little black line around the first mm of the cd.. hehehe

Used to work for an old copy protection method, but doesn't any more.

How does this copy protection you are referring to here work exactly? I have had CDs that when I chuck them in it pops up with a thing saying some software has to be installed in order to play the CD, to which I just "cancel" and continue playing the CD through winamp or whatever.

That's the same one. Some CD players can play them normally, some can't. If it can't use EAC like I said above.

Don't bother with the player, it plays something like 48kbps mp3s they include on the CD, which sound terrible. Because they include those it means there's less room for songs from the artist on there too, which sucks arse.

And i'll add that the "copy protection" they use doesn't work. It's actually "listening protection", which stops people listening to the music, but doesn't affect their ability to copy it.

Because they include the music as a crap quality compressed file there's less room for full quality music, so there's less songs on newer CDs than old ones. The RIAA really need to get a fucking clue.

Disable autoplay to aviod software being installed (ive had one that didnt even ask)

You can then just rip the cda files with a good program - i think alcohol 120%does something similar too you could try that (its a damn good proggie too)

Yeah, I fail to see how making it harder for people to listen to music they have legitimately purchased is going to help???

I will not bother buying something if I can't listen to it on my PC. I sit at my computer most of day with work and I listen play music all the time using my PC.

it's an old cd (2002), so it uses the old sony copy protection... and yeah, it's the one where you can draw a line around the outside of the cd to disable it. Might have to try it.