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I haven't tried it yet, because I continue to use Feurio (feurio.de) for audio CDs. Since I have bought a new DVD writer, the number of defective burns has gone down to zero, so for me the verify function is not that essential anymore.

Wolfowitz to the World Bank, Ashcroft to the Vatican

As long as posts on this board are not read aloud by the computer, the ignore function of the brain should do the trick.

This Mastercard exclusivity thing is a terribly stupid choice, I'm sure this will backfire on the organisers, and maybe the sponsor too.

I think there is no french jazz-only radio station (maybe on cable), but France Musiques and FIP have regular jazz shows. France Musiques: Mo-Fri 19:00-19:55 Le Jazz est un Roman Mo 23:00-00:00 Jazz de coeur, Jazz de pique Fri 23:00-01:00 Jazz Club (live shows from Paris clubs) http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-m...ssions/accueil/ FIP: A mixture of "alternative" music like jazz, world, chanson. Jazz every day from 19:30 http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/fip/accueil/index.php

Right now at work I can only spin MP3s, but yesterday evening I listened to another batch of ECMs I recently got - Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloe - Manfred Schoof - Lifelines (JAPO) - Terje Rypdal - Descendre - Dave Holland - Conference of the birds

They should have set the price to $19.9, and noone would consider them as ridiculously expensive. $20 for a CD is an important psychological barrier

Is there a death metal version?

Sorry Agustin, the MPS book does not include the release dates. All the info I have on that album is here: Japanese issues of Tete Montoliu recordings, Help needed

The Open Sky (Dave Liebman trio) albums are very good.

You forgot the LPs The price is also rather high ($15), but many vinyl fans will be delighted that these are available on LP at all. What is a "custom CD"? ($20) Is it a CD-R? http://www.pmrecords.org

It could indeed be a ZYX manufacturing defect. I had the same problem with some cheap OJC samplers manufactured by ZYX ("Organ", "Guitar", etc). My SACD player Sony SCD-XA777 could not read them. My other CD players could play them. I burned CD-R copies (only the CD burner could read the discs, not the DVD drive), which work on the Sony.

Thanks, but my knowledge is actually quite basic. Information on these things can usually be found on computer-related websites, not on music sites.

It depends on the drive that has to read the CD-R afterwards. Some DVD drives (also used in car CD players) are sensitive to this. Burning at 4x or 8x should be on the safe side. These are compression options. If it's about MP3 files, 128kbps is the minimum acceptable. 192kbps is fine for most users, more than 256kbps is unnecessary.

It looks like your Arcam isn't very good in reading CD-Rs, some types of CD-Rs or discs that contain errors. Many british CD players are known to have a poor error correction, a deliberate trade-off that favors good sound. You could copy (digitally, on the PC) those problematic discs onto new CD-Rs, of the brand that the Arcam has no problem with. It could also be that the laser of the Arcam is degrading. Is it exposed to cigarette smoke (the main reason for laser problems)?

The software is on the CD itself, if I remember correctly, and it plays compressed files from the data section of the disc, not the audio CD data themselves, which are inaccessible for the PC if the copyprotection works correctly. That's the way the CDs are meant to be played on a PC.

Nice, thanks

I like the 1965 sessions (Groovin' etc) most. Absolutely avoid the european ZYX CDs of these titles (straight reissues of the 5 short albums), because the sound is awful. The US reissues (3 full CDs) are much better. Titles are: - On A Misty Night - Stairway To The Stars - Lonely Star http://www.fantasyjazz.com/catalog/baker_c_cat2.html

It's reported by Reuters France too (in french), where it is presented as a joke by Michael Llodra http://www.reuters.fr/locales/c_newsArticl...storyID=8011128

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I use Easy CD Extractor from Poikosoft. It was unable to read a copyprotected Blue Note CD in my DVD drive, just as alll the other softwares. But on my CD burner drive, the CD could be played and copied without a problem.

Your question is a bit confusing, because copyprotection on CDs means the audio data on the disc cannot be extracted ("ripped") on the PC, independently of what is intended with the extracted data (CD copy, MP3 files, AAC files for the Ipod). Those discs are meant to be played in CD players. On the PC, only some compressed files from a data section of the CD can be played. Some CD drives are immune to copy protection, they simply ignore it. Some CD ripping software is also better in doing that. But there is no software that can extract copyprotected CDs with any drive. A legal argument to say the discs should be copyable will inevitably fail, because copyprotected CD can always be copied through the analog chain: connect your CD player to the sound card of your PC, record the music and burn the file as an audio CD (or convert it to the Ipod format). The copy will not sound as good as a digital one (depends on the quality of the sound card), and this is much more unconfortable and timeconsuming , but it is wrong to say that these discs cannot be legally copied. The objective of the music industry is to have the consumers pay for a copyprotected CD and then again for music downloads. My advice is to boycott copyprotected CDs altogether. This is the only way music labels will learn.

My favourite LP purchases have been new and used ECM pressings. More info here: http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php...533;entry332480 I had started listening to jazz 20 years ago with ECM albums by Metheny and Jarrett, then I turned away from the label to focus on US labels and 50's/60's jazz, but thanks to vinyl I have rediscovered many 70's and 80's ECM sessions. Some Metheny and Jarrett albums I had on LP, then upgraded them to CD (I had abandonned vinyl very early in the late 80's), and now I bought them on LP again. Almost all ECM analog recordings sound better on LP. Not that the CDs are bad, but they sound somehow distant and less involving. With other labels I often prefer CDs, because of the poor pressing quality of the LPs. I'm currently looking for mint LPs (german pressings) of the Keith Jarrett Standards Vol.1 and 2 albums (my favourite Jarrett trio recordings), but they are difficult to find.

Hola Agustin, I think the release dates for the MPS/Saba LPs are in the MPS book "Jazzin' the Black Forest". I'll look it up this evening.

Many titles are available again at CD Universe, for $13.3