[KLUG Members] HDCD conversion to mp3

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> For Christmas I got a copy of Garcia & Grisman's "Shady Grove" (great 
> bluegrass stuff...).  I was eager to get it into my mp3 player, so as 
> always I went to to my linux box rip it into mp3, as is my clear 
> fair-use right (right?). 

Possibly not. 

> But neither grip nor cdparanoia recognize it as an audio CD at all.

I've encountered this before, but it isn't HDCD.  HDCD discs play
without incident in any decent player, including being ripable.

> Does anyone know what's up?  How can I rip this to mp3?  If not (easily) 
> possible, then I might suspect HDCD is really a shoddy coverup for 
> denying fair use...

There are a variety of 'copy protection' mechanisms that result in
behaviour like this;  I have a couple of different CDs that will play in
various odd mixes of players: CD-ROMs, car stereo, boom-box, etc...
Probably not what the OEM intended.
http://library.n0i.net/faq/cdr/