WTF!?!
I found a CD that Exact Audio Copy can not rip for some reason.
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It's from the "Vienna Master Series"
Inscripted as follows:
Vienna Master Series
GEMA
Made by PILZ CD, Germany 1988.
CD #160231, Franz Schubert, Streichquartet d-Moll op.posth "Der Tod und das Mädchen"
(It also states in the margin, "keine Ausleihe." - web xlator result = "no check out" - WTF!)
Windows Media Player will not even recognize it as a disk.
Winamp can rip it directly to MP3, supposedly, but it only finds the time breaks and the resulting tracks are blank when you try to play them.
EAC produces an error dialog box, simply stating: "Error creating file." with one option to click, "OK."
ISO-Buster shows nothing but audio tracks.
BTW, it plays normally on two of my DVD players, all three of my standard CD players and even the kids' boomboxes.
Some kind of copy protection, from the sound of it.
Then why doesn't ISOBuster find it? That thing finds Windows, Adobe, Semantec, and other keys. It usually rocks.
That fucker has never failed me. Not yet, anyway.
Oddly, it's a dual CD pack. One disk works normally, but the other does not.
Bad luck, then. A scratch on an index, coupled with a slightly misaligned laser?
I thought of the misaligned laser issue and tried the disc on three drives with the same results. One is an elderly CD burner from MSI (cleanest ripper I own.), one a DVD-ROM drive from Pacific Digital (cheap ebay find, but good ripper) and the other is an LG external Multi-format burner (only a few months old - rips OK, burns OK - nothing special. I really need to replace the one that put a scar on my finger and exploded a disc in my face. I was wearing glasses, no harm to face. All harm, but the finger, went to itself.).
I don't think a misaligned laser is the whole problem. If there is a scratch, I'll be damned if I can see it.
Downloading previously suggested apps as I type.