I have a CD of one of our live shows that plays in any CD player, but my computer doesn't recognize it. I'm trying to rip it and cut it into tracks, but when I load the CD nothing happens.

WHAT GIVES???

3/13/2008 3:13:31 PM

que?

3/13/2008 3:15:26 PM

just fucking punch the shit out of your computer and go get another beer

3/13/2008 3:15:39 PM

I'll try that.

3/13/2008 3:16:38 PM

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/?q=download

3/13/2008 3:18:27 PM

I have all the software I need, but it's all useless if my pc doesn't recognize the disk

3/13/2008 3:21:17 PM

Quote :

"just fucking punch the shit out of your computer and go get another beer "

loooool

3/13/2008 3:22:17 PM

if the dumb-as-stumps cd players can read it, and your multi-format cd-rom can't, something's wrong with your computer, not the CD

have you checked to make sure the session is closed?

3/13/2008 3:28:30 PM

I figured it was my computer, but the drivers are reasonably updated. it reads other CDs though, which makes me think it isn't a hardware issue. Are there any obscure formats that most CD players will read that my computer might not recognize?


I'm not sure if it's closed or not, the sound guy at the venue made the CD for us. I assumed it is though, because as mentioned it works in most CD players. Regardless, I can't close it if my computer won't read it.

3/13/2008 3:33:28 PM

what do you mean by "won't read it"...in that, it doesn't even see that there's a disc in there? what burning program do you use? open it up and find the "disc info" or "disc properties" option, see if it's actually finding anything

3/13/2008 3:35:45 PM

hah, i found a back door approach. thanks for your help though, indirectly you led me to the solution

3/13/2008 3:38:56 PM

glad i could help, albeit in some small way

what was the problem, and what was the solution?

3/13/2008 3:42:18 PM

I'm not exactly sure what the problem was, but I mounted an old ISO extractor that saw the data on the disk and directly converted the file to .WAV

now I can import it in Audacity and have my way with her

[Edited on March 13, 2008 at 3:47 PM. Reason : guess it really wasn't closed after all]

3/13/2008 3:47:25 PM

just fucking punch the shit out of your computer and go get another beer

3/13/2008 11:41:52 PM