Hi I hope no one else has asked this...(i couldn't find anything on it)

I recently bought some thai cds and i was hoping to rip them from the cds so that i could put them on my ipod. but it turns out that a lot of the cds (i.e. the Grammy ones) are license protected and when i try to extract them the songs are all jumbled up. I can't even figure out how to play them without the player provided on the cd. I've tried a whole bunch of programs and nothing works. there's even a way to "copy" the cd onto your computer but all i ended up with were wma files that wouldn't play.

any suggestions?!!

I've not tried it with any Grammy CDs but AudioGrabber works well for me http://www.audiograbber.com-us.net/

The DRM used on audio CDs is not particularly strong, what software have you tried?

EDIT Forgot to say to

checkout Exact Audio Copy. it's free and it's ripped every cd i've tried. even badly scratched and cracked ones. use it with the LAME codec to make very high quality mp3's or you can encode to FLAC, OGG, APE.

good quick tutorial here: http://users.pandora.be/satcp/eac-qs-en.htm

CDex is another ripper.

thanks for all of your responses.

i didn't think i could burn as wma and thought it'd be lower quality if i converted, so...

i went to this thai forum and found out that all you have to do is install AnyDVD.

then you're able to see the tracks in the cdrom folder as .cda files. otherwise if you just try to rip the song will come out all jumbled up.

I had a similar problem where my thai audio cd couldn't be read by the drive, so I chucked in an old cd drive lying about and it worked.