The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that they have learned of at least one radio station that cannot play copy-protected CDs using their current technology. That this would happen was predicted at the blog, mediageek, back in November 2001.
"Most commercial radio stations now run under some kind of automation and store most of their music on hard drives. Although they have the physical CDs, most of them are ripped to the automation system's drive (usually at full uncompressed quality). If copy protected CDs prevent this, then it's like telling radio stations 'please don't play this CD.'"The promotional CDs in question came from EMI who has shipped over 16 million copy-protected CDs to date. One Australian who cannot play an EMI CD in his Marantz DVD player properly has written them to say he will never buy an EMI CD again.
The article does suggest that the CD contains software that might allow the CDs to be played, but apparently no technical information about what the software does is included and so the station manager refuses to allow its installation. (A wise security precaution given the past history of comanies including spyware that phones home.)
Posted by Brian at April 17, 2003 12:15 PM | TrackBackI'm always being upset with copy-protected CDs. I've never heard the problem in radio station: they seem too serious...
Posted by: music posters at January 21, 2004 05:34 AM