# Are some audio CDs secured against uploading to a PC?

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**Created:** [April 13, 2004, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-some-audio-cds-secured-against-uploading-to-a-pc/239789 "2004-04-13T14:59:54Z")\
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An odd thing happened over the past week or so. I uploaded an old copy of Nirvana’s _Nevermind_. Normally what I do is put the CD in the CD drive, and a menu pops up asking which software I want to play it with. I choose “Real Player”, and then it normally tells me that the contents of the CD have not yet been saved into my library, do I want to do it now? I click on “yes”. And the music was recorded. Presumably because it’s an old CD, the titles are all Unknown, and the folder it went into was “Unknown - 2004-04-08”.  
This is all normal.

Then, over the weekend I bought a copy of Stevie Wonder’s _Innervisions_. Older music, but definitely a newer CD. I went throught the steps described above. But next day, when I tried to play it from my hard drive, I found that every song on it seemed to be in the folder twice. They all had the correct titles, not just “Unknown”. So I went through the folder, and deleted the duplicates.

Then I tried to play it, and what did I hear? Not Stevie Wonder. No, I heard Nirvana songs, all listed in my computer with the _Innervision_ song titles. _Nevermind_ has a couple more tracks than _Innervisions_, so the last two were just listed with their track numbers.

Now I’ve been trying again to save _Innervisions_ to my hard drive, and it just won’t take. I can play it when the actual disc is in the CD drive, but that appears to be it.