I’m not trying to steal your cd, I just want to be able to listen to it on my computer and my mp3 player. I purchased one* of your new cds, and it’s kind of a pain in the ass to only be able to listen to it on my walkman when music sounds much better coming out of my computer and I am able to make playlists and not have to wear headphones.
I have no idea if there are some settings that I need to configure, I have the latest version of windows media player. Are the songs hidden somewhere on the disc, possibly behind a series of ingenious and deadly traps? I was under the impression that I was buying music, not the riddle of the fucking sphynx. Maybe the idea of searching for the songs like buried treasure on the cd appeals to some people, but I’d rather just have them immediately accessible.
In short, your needlessly retarded cd format makes me want to not only go download the songs I am entitled to, but also help myself to whatever else I can find for going through the hassle of installing filesharing programs and waiting for everything to download. Granted, I won’t actually do it, but you should hang your head in shame.
*It’s possible to debate whether releasing two cds at the same time rather than a double cd is a shitty thing to do or not. I can defend the artist’s choice in making two distinct albums, unless it seems like blatant money-grubbing.
It says that it cannot read the file and asks if it is on another computer or if the network is working. I really have no idea why it would think that.
CD copy protection is just absurd. Think about it: if you’re a computer person, where will you most likely be listening to music? At the computer, of course. So why would you purchase a CD that can’t be used in the place where you spend the majority of your time?
In effect, the music industry has guaranteed that the demographic which is likely to steal music (that is, serious computer users) will never pay money for these albums.
Agreed. I heard this twit on World Cafe on NPR. Sang mostly whiny, preachy folk song crap about how President Bush and every thing else is bad. :rolleyes: I almost started a pit thread about him myself. The only way I got through it was Tom Lehrer
Yup. You know what the stupid thing is? If I go to a site that imports foreign versions, e.g. www.cd-wow.com, I get it without the copy protection (at least, this has been true for other CDs). CD-Wow are based in Hong Kong, which means that in Hong Kong, piracy capital of the world, the CDs are distributed sans “copy protection”. Truly, they have excelled themselves - a technology which pisses off every legitimate purchaser of an album, while inconveniencing pirates not one whit. Pillocks.
ok, I sent an email to saddle creek records and if I send in my copy they’ll send me another one along with a couple of bucks to cover the shipping. They said a few people have had the problem, but they expect that it is only a small number of the discs and they are looking into it.
I just couldn’t believe that I had yet again picked a randomly defective copy of a media device.
