[Gllug] When a CD is not a CD

[Anthony Newman]

> Why can I not hear this on the old CD player?


It doesn't understand. AFAIK the anti-piracy measures function by 
producing non-Red(?) Book standard CDs,
which should be illegible to computer drives which are more pedantic. 
The error detection/correction which
takes place in either old "analogue" CD players or modern PC drives is 
both identical and digital, and extremely
resilient except when implemented poorly. I have had cheap CD-ROM drives 
before which were unable to read
slightly scratched discs without producing horribly distorted audio.

On the other hand, if you have a super spangly expensive drive I've no 
idea :)


Anthony

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