🚀 go-pugleaf

I've heard of a trick you can use with this CDex program (what/where is 
this program, BTW?).  Apparently, this program--which I'm unfamiliar 
with--doesn't always work in regular use, or the info I read is outdated 
or something.  But as I recall, if you have 2 drives, you can use the 
music CD and a blank CD at once, then after disabling the auto-insert 
notification you can simply swap them between the drives.  From there, 
supposedly, CDex will copy them even though Explorer won't know you 
switched them at first.  But I've never had the program or the chance to 
try it.

Another possible approach would be to use Totalrecorder, a favorite of 
mine.  It used to be pretty cheap, and is supposed to bypass everything 
else in Windows regarding sound files so that you can record even the 
ones Windows doesn't want you to record.  I got it for like $15 at the 
time.  Check/search the web for it.  It works on Realaudio files, even 
the ones that are truly "streaming content".  I know some .ra files that 
are *supposed* be unrecordable will actually just save to your hardrive, 
but Totalrecorder even works on the ones that don't end up there.

I'd like to know if either of these do work.  I'm not into passing 
around illegal copies, but I think I should be able to copy my own 
stinking disks!  Not to mention make my own compilations, which I 
frequently do.

IsaacJ

Only me wrote:

> "Scott S." <scott@yee.com> wrote in message
> news:rHO%7.726$3x5.214790@e3500-atl2.usenetserver.com...
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>>I have one of these CD's. Dylan's Greatest Hits Volume 3. I had never
>>investigated it, but I decided to when I read your post. You are correct.
>>The .CDA files are not visible when browsing the CD. Only the software
>>program setup files are. But the CD does play in Windows Media Player,
>>
> 
> I have a few CDs which are the same as this.  No cda files visible when you
> browse using Windows Explorer, however CDex finds them and rips them without
> problem.
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