Unique problem: single audio CD will not import, seeking workaroud

[eridium]

I recently bought a Tahitian audio CD but it makes all of my CD-ROM drives spin crazy, hence I can't import it as AAC or even with the old drag/drop of AIF files from the CD to hard drive in Finder. This is a problem unique to only this CD, and I desperately want to find a workaround. (I tested this on my PowerBook, PowerMac, and a Win XP machine, no success) The only machine on which it works is a standard audio CD player on my stereo. Perhaps it isn't a red book audio CD? Still there must be a sly way of extracting this audio data.

What happens when I play the CD in iTunes: It plays the first three seconds of the first track and repeats like a broken record. Same thing happens with the AAC files that are imported from it.
I thought I might make a copy of the CD using Diskcopy and Diskimage, but my attempts to do so caused the Diskcopy app to unexpectedly quit. When I try to drag/drop the audio files as AIF to my hard drive, I get the error: "The Finder cannot complete the operation because some data in "1 Audio Track" could not be read or written. (Error code -36) Same error applies to all audio tracks. Now I'm stumped and still want to get this into my iTunes library and iPod. What workarounds can you suggest for importing audio tracks from stubborn music CDs? Many thanks in advance.

[K1W1]

Sounds like some sort of corrupted or copy protected disk.
Can you get another copy of it?

[eridium]

Sounds like some sort of corrupted or copy protected disk.
Can you get another copy of it?

Unfortunately no, I bought it in Tahiti, quite far away -- but I think another copy will be the same. I spoke to someone in Bora Bora who bought the same CD independently and she mentioned having the same problem. I just looked at the CD on a Windows machine with Exact Audio Copy and it had a list of null tracks 12-99s (The CD has 11 songs) Maybe it is a nifty Tahitian copy protection. But I don't have a portable CD player anymore and I want to get this music on my iPod. Some clever bloke must've figured out how to perform digital audio extraction for problem CDs...

Thanks for any hints

[mclbruce]

You could connect your standard CD player to your Mac and use something like Audio In to record the CD.
http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-34826/soft.html

[eridium]

You could connect your standard CD player to your Mac and use something like Audio In to record the CD.
http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-34826/soft.html
What an excellent idea Bruce. I've become so computer dependent that I forgot about the old input/output method! It just so happens that my CD playeres have digital optical outs (fiber optic) and I have an Onkyo USB audio connector with digital optical input/output... so in theory I can import the music with no loss of quality as it's direct digital -(optical)-> digital. I used this device for my MD player and MP3s years ago, and haven't touched it since. Thanks for suggestion Bruce, it was so obvious I was too blind to see it!

[eridium]

It might be that I can still DAE my CD with X-CD-Roast:

http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@524.oHXLaxiNWuP.282639@.68afefa8/9

Any experience?

[mclbruce]

Thanks for suggestion Bruce, it was so obvious I was too blind to see it! Glad I could help out. I had a client with some off-brand digital dictation device and Audio In helped him out.