Content Ripping

So I thought I’d get up to the current state of the art on CD ripping, both for CDROMs and for audio CDs.

This is a good analysis by CDRInfo on the current version of Midbar’s Cactus Data Shield. This is the format Universal will use to protect its new audio CDs. It’s been reported already that some DVDs effectively bypass this protection, but this article addresses the specific concerns of how best to backup these protected CDs, and how to extract the music data at high quality for download to a personal MP3 listening device.