can't access .WAV files

Posted: 03-23-2005, 08:39 AM
M$'s annoying attempt to monopolize digital audio media under the guise of
DRM cost me several hours of my life today. I brought down and snagged a
cracked copy of InterView mp3 encoder after many failed attempts to access my
files. Just out of curiousity, is there even a way to get at the real audio
CD data manually? (i.e. explorer or command prompt)
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Mike Williams [MVP]
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Re: can't access .WAV files
Posted: 03-23-2005, 12:08 PM
Joe7dust wrote:
> M$'s annoying attempt to monopolize digital audio media under the guise of
> DRM cost me several hours of my life today. I brought down and snagged a
> cracked copy of InterView mp3 encoder after many failed attempts to access my
> files. Just out of curiousity, is there even a way to get at the real audio
> CD data manually? (i.e. explorer or command prompt)
Your post is incredibly garbled. Why don't you take the ranting out and
post the actual problem scenario.
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RE: can't access .WAV files
Posted: 03-23-2005, 03:07 PM
Man, this is a confusing post, what are you smoking or drinking? First of
all InterView mp3 encoder does not exist. You may be talking about
IrfanView.
Take a look at the below URL (website), it may be what you need.
CD Extraction Wizard 1.5 - Encode CD audio into WAV,MP3,WMA,OG
http://www.handyarchive.com/Audio/Ri...on-Wizard.html


"Joe7dust" wrote:
> M$'s annoying attempt to monopolize digital audio media under the guise of
> DRM cost me several hours of my life today. I brought down and snagged a
> cracked copy of InterView mp3 encoder after many failed attempts to access my
> files. Just out of curiousity, is there even a way to get at the real audio
> CD data manually? (i.e. explorer or command prompt)
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Joe7dust
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RE: can't access .WAV files
Posted: 03-23-2005, 06:23 PM
Sorry to be so confusing, the problem is when I look at an audio CD through
explorer or command prompt all I see are 44 byte files *.cda instead of the
real data. Its annoying as fuck to be denied access to my own stuff by
windows (and esp. since its the result of a fairly recent update, like in the
last 1-3 years... of course their goal is for it to seem normal to people
once its "just been like that forever")

Supposedly its an attempt at Digital Rights Management from what I've read
on the net, but many people including myself seem to suspect otherwise. For
example its 1000X easier to just bend over and rip them as .wma or one of
microsoft's advertised .mp3 encoders (the second of which is InterVideo btw)

At any rate the problem is solved I was just curious what ya'll had to say
about this and if maybe I missed an easier workaround. I should have
searched for an mp3 encoder on a file sharing program sooner, but I got cocky
and thought I could fix it myself. I even went so far as to reformat and
reinstall, but strangely that didn't fix it. (because I had heard it was a
result of media player 9 and was unremoveable once installed)

"Byte" wrote:
> Man, this is a confusing post, what are you smoking or drinking? First of
> all InterView mp3 encoder does not exist. You may be talking about
> IrfanView.
> Take a look at the below URL (website), it may be what you need.
> CD Extraction Wizard 1.5 - Encode CD audio into WAV,MP3,WMA,OGG
> http://www.handyarchive.com/Audio/Ri...on-Wizard.html
>
>
> "Joe7dust" wrote:
>
> > M$'s annoying attempt to monopolize digital audio media under the guise of
> > DRM cost me several hours of my life today. I brought down and snagged a
> > cracked copy of InterView mp3 encoder after many failed attempts to access my
> > files. Just out of curiousity, is there even a way to get at the real audio
> > CD data manually? (i.e. explorer or command prompt)
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