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ATTENTION: Will NOT play on the Mac!

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antioxid said on November 4, 2002 23:24:

This is really disgusting! Why can’t I play the CD on my Mac’s CD drive? It’s just stupid...

I insert the beast, play it and no sound comes up. Thank you EMI and thank you Roxette for making me buy a CD that won’t play on my computer. I thought you would “Think different” by now.

Has anyone managed to hack this?

I just noticed the back of the CD doesn’t say it will play on Macs. But it doesn’t say it won’t either. I think I might return it to the store.

ernes said on November 5, 2002 00:27:

We all know that macs are better computers than PCs, but if you can’t listen to it on your mac is not a good excuse to return it to the store. Now you’ve got the original CD go and try to get some good mp3 of them as I did.

I can’t even copy it to my portable MiniDisc but I made a cd with mp3 and now I have the Ballads Hits on my portable device.

Ernes.

Sascha said on November 5, 2002 07:38:

Not true, it DOES play on a Mac!!

I have absolutely no problem playing it on Mac OS X. I ripped the whole CD with iTunes and burned a copy. Perfect quality!

Only difference to a normal audio CD is that 2 volumes are mounted: 1. Audio CD with all the tracks, 2. CD with player application for Windows etc.

Btw. It’s a Powerbook G4, Mac OS 10.1.5

SecondFabian said on November 5, 2002 08:15:

Antioxid,

Are you using mac OS 9.X?

I read somewhere these copyrighted CDs can ruin the whole computer.

Anyhow, everyone should check out mp4. It produces great quality media file with smaller size. I did that with the MoviePlayer (now gone) with QuickTime 6 enable and it blew me away. How about posting videos in mp4 format roxers?

antioxid said on November 5, 2002 11:02:

I’m running OS 10.1.5 on an iBook 500.

So you say I can rip the CD through iTunes? I guess I’ll have to do that then. Open iTunes, select the tracks and rip them? And that’s it?
What I think it’s weird is that it opens the CD, starts playing, but no sound comes out.

I’ll try that then.

Thanks!