I decided to face head on the biggest problem when ripping my audio CDs to FLAC. The two "copy protected" CDs that I have.
I remember when I first ripped these. I needed to use some alternative multi-session-aware Linux CD ripper which specifically ignored the completely bogus 2nd session on the CD with garbage data and read the first session TOC. (The trick is that bog-ordinary redbook CD players don't care about the 2nd session, but computer CD-ROM drives and apps do.) I had forgotten the name of the program and I was like "oh shit, I'm forgetting some old nerd lore here."
...I hit "cdparanoia -B" and both of the CDs extracted just fine with no complaints.
#MusicBrainz Picard identified both of the discs just fine.
I *guess* I would have had problems if I had tried to extract this with K3B as I usually do, because it identified the disc and then the drive started going haywire. Don't always trust GUI programs!
#cd #audiocd #music #drm