New Audio CD\u2019s on the Market Will Not Play on CD-ROM Devices<\/b>
\nIn the near future, a large amount of new audio CD\u2019s released by recording artists will not play properly in your computer\u2019s CD-ROM player. Why? Because, a-la Napster, once again, it\u2019s a battle of copyrights. Sony figures that people who will play a band\u2019s audio CD in a CD-ROM player, are most likely to also be the ones ripping and trading the songs for free to others, and thus encouraging pirating the music without paying for it. With that in mind, they\u2019ve gone and encoded the redbook audio to play well only in traditional home and car CD audio components, but terribly in computer CD and CD-ROM devices. I know because I saw this on the news. They took Celine Dion\u2019s new CD (Couldn\u2019t they have picked ANYONE ELSE?!), which was known to have used this new technology, and put it into a CD-ROM device to play. The resulting sounds were very skippy, and staticy at best, otherwise it sounded as though you had taken 2 hits of LSD, and were listening to whales singing in a bad gospel church choir.<\/p>\nSame day, different year..<\/h3>\n
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New Audio CD\u2019s on the Market Will Not Play on CD-ROM Devices In the near future, a large amount of new audio CD\u2019s released by recording artists will not play properly in your computer\u2019s CD-ROM player. Why? Because, a-la Napster, once again, it\u2019s a battle of copyrights. Sony figures that people who will play a … <\/p>\n