Re: (TV) Illegal

[Jay <piazzasanmarco@yahoo.com>]

leo next time is suggest you add CRIMINAL, FRAUDULENT and UNETHICAL to your subject line

(this was an attempt at humor)

--- On Wed, 12/10/08, Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net> wrote:

> From: Leo Casey <LeoCasey@comcast.net>
> Subject: (TV) Illegal
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2008, 5:30 PM
> This question/subject is probably more appropriate for the
> 'other'
> Television List, but since that List is presently in a
> state of suspended
> animation I'm posting it here.
> 
>  
> 
> Since this is potentially illegal I'll pose it as a
> hypothetical.
> 
>  
> 
> Suppose I had a commercial cd [non-Television,
> non-Verlaine/Lloyd] with 11
> tracks, and I wanted to burn a *lossless* version of one of
> these tracks and
> send it to someone via snail mail or via a SendSpace.com
> link.
> 
>  
> 
> Usually, I  can after inserting a cd into my D:\ (or
> E:\ ) drive, use some
> software to convert one or more of the 11 individual cda
> "tracks"  I want to
> corresponding individual wav file(s) and my problem is
> solved.  
> 
>  
> 
> But suppose that unlike most commercial cds which would
> have 11 separate cda
> "files", the commercial cd in question when
> viewed/opened on my D:\ drive
> has NO cda "files" , but only shows the
> following:  
> 
>  
> 
> 1)  Autorun.inf   1KB  Setup Information File;  2)
> BVCP_2153.ico  51 KB
> Icon File; 3) main.dxr 2,456  KB DXR File;  and 4)
> ZZZZZZZ.exe  3148 KB
> Application File. 
> 
>  
> 
> Is there anyway to make a copy of just one of the tracks in
> such a case?
> (And , of course,  I can't use software to split/edit
> the tracks because
> they cd and hard drive doesn't have individual music
> files.) 
> 
>  
> 
> Leo
> 
>  
> 
> PS:  I already am aware that cda "files"  are
> just a "shortcut" to a track
> on an audio cd in that it plays the referenced track on
> thecd  when opened,
> and that cda files themselves do not contain actual audio
> data.  (But there
> is software that can convert a cda 'shortcut' to a
> corresponding wav file.)
> 
>  
> 
> PPS:  Fact: Using NERO I can copy this particular
> commercial cd in
> 'one-fell-swoop' and get a 'lossless' copy
> of the entire album that plays
> fine, but then (the copy will not have individual files for
> each track but
> instead just contain the four files listed abobe of the
> originalbut).. 
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