Copying a CD

[Jennykenny]

I copied a CD on my laptop and then tried to copy it onto a blank disc without success. I used a CD-RW disc. Mistake???

[snags]

Oh yes, a massive mistake. The AB angels will sniff out this question and take great pleasure in informing you that what you were attempting to do is illegal and that there is a very high chance that you will go to hell and burn for all eternity.

[craft1948]

Are you Joan of Arc?

[snags]

Today, yes. Tmrw I can be whoever you want me to be.

[craft1948]

oooh lovely...................can you be Damian Lewis?

[snags]

Good God no... he's ginger isn't he?

[craft1948]

Damian Lewis is the sexiest ginger person on the entire planet..............do you want to change your mind?

[Jennykenny]

Please, an answer folks. I don't believe that I can't copy something that I paid for, for my own use.

[craft1948]

Sorry Jenny................

[Old_Geezer]

It may not be illegal, there is no confession that it is a commercial CD. Could be a disk of private data.

That said there is no indication of how it failed.

[mrchirpy]

What programme were you using to burn the disc?

[Old_Geezer]

Not all countries have the same fair use policy for backing up stuff you bought. But without details on how it failed or exactly what you were trying it's difficult to advise. I'd suspect you have encountered any piracy measures for a game ?

[Jennykenny]

A Joan Baez CD. Not sure what programme I used, just the one on my laptop, Windows something??

[The Builder]

Jenny, did it write anything to the disc, then refuse to play it, or is the disc still blank?

[Old_Geezer]

As I understand it, in the UK you aren't legally allowed to back it up. That said I have no idea why it wouldn't copy. It's little more than a bunch of .wav files.

[ChuckFickens]

I'm one of the main protesters about people copying music on here and even I've got no problems about people making copies of a CD they own for their own use (all the CD's in my car car copies so I don't ruin the originals)

Jenny, we will try and help you, but you have to help us! just saying it didn't work and you used windows something or other doesn't give us a lot to go on!

If you are just trying to copy an audio CD onto another audio CD use this.
http://download.cnet....-2646_4-10776287.html

It couldn't be easier...

[ChuckFickens]

OG.... audio CD's aren't a collection of WAV files, they are not files at all, the CD doesn't have a file system on it in the same way as a data CD does

[petal54]

I thought you were copying me,as those my initials

[Jennykenny]

Thanks for all your time and help but I give up. It's too complicated.

[Tuvok]

Did you just drag the tracks from the CD to the computer?

If so, that won't work as they are not files.

You would need to either use a copying program or import the tunes into iTunes or Windows Media Player, then use it to burn them to Cd.

There are legallities involved in copying music - which other posters have commented on. Like one poster has suggested, maybe you are doing this to protect the original CD or perhaps you are doing this because the original CD is unplayable in one of your devices.

[Old_Geezer]

It seems you are correct, but that has just served to confuse me. I swear I've looked at CDs in the past and seen .wav. Now I no longer recall what I must have been looking at then.