[geeks] Good bye music cd protection!

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 04:18:57PM -0700, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 06:59, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:52:40AM -0400, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> > 
> > > MP3s are decidedly *not* for people who care greatly for sound quality,
> > > judging by the crap MP3s I've heard.  That said, I'm sure that I could
> > > bypass damn near any music copy protection scheme using simple equipment
> > > and create a very high quality recording.
> > 
> > All you need is a CD player with some sort of digital output, and almost any
> > sound card with a digital input, except for the SB Live!s.
> 
> Why not the SB Live?

It is impossible to do bit for bit copies through it's digital IO port since
it up samples everything to its internal format.  Only outputting in one
format is fine with me, but I want to be able to get exact copies on input.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd