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American cd player won't play Irish cds?

  • 07-12-2009 6:31pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    Ok ridiculous question time. My sister bought a cd player in the US a gazillion years ago. She says it won't play cds from over here and would like it "fixed". Now I've never heard of cds having any region coding and a quick google backs this up. Can anyone confirm this as BS or is there an element of truth? Thanks for any enlightenment! :)


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  • #2
    cnocbui
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,111 ✭✭✭✭cnocbui


    Get her to check if the CD's she is trying to play have any kind of DRM (copy protection) on them. It should say somewhere on the sleve or you can sometimes visually see it when looking at the non label side of the disc. Usually looks like a extra band or two on the outside. EMI is one of the main culprits of this nonsense.

    I have an old but good CD player that goes nuts with such discs.

    Only thing I can think of as there is no region coding.

    If it is the discs, she could try getting on to the label and asking for replacement discs without the DRM. I got some out of EMI, but it took a while.


  • #3
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    The Audio CD has a standard known as the 'Red Book'.

    Have a look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28audio_CD_standard%29

    cnocbui has outlined issues with DRM, but you have some CD's that are mastered 'badly', intentionally, to throw off CD rippers and the like. Westlife had this a few years ago, basically the CD has loads of very very short index points at the start of tracks.. and in some players the track index might show up as 99.

    Short index points (audio) was also used in various games consoles, as, at one point, a lot of CD copiers couldn't (and some probably still can't), handle an audio track shorter than four seconds.


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