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Caught up in the struggle to protect CD’s from
copying, ATO Records has found that some of
their CD’s are created in a way that prevents
buyers from transferrring the music to their iPods.
The problem seems to arise in that you can’t
just copy the the music from the CD to your computer
using any of the normal means, like RealPlayer, iTunes,
Windows Media Player, or MusicMatch. People that do
that will find that the audio has become distorted.
Instead, you must use the software that is packaged
on the CD to copy the music – and it only lets
you copy it in Windows Media and Sony’s own ATRAC
formats. So if you own an iPod, you’re out of
luck. You cannot copy music from the protected discs
to your iPod without distorting the music.
In a statement on the ATO Records web site,
the label states “the easiest way around these
issues is to use Apple Computer products in conjunction
with your iPod.” This doesn’t really answer
the question of distorsion though, so people that
have an iPod will apparently have to deal with distorted
music, or go without ATO music on their iPods.
If you use a Sony MP3 player, or a player that supports
the Windows Media format, you can safely use the ‘authorized’
copies.
ATO Records is referring people to a page
on the Sony web site that gives instructions on how
to make ‘authorized’ copies. They also have
said they didn’t know that their music was being
distributed with the copy protection technology, and
are working to make sure that all ATO releases
in the future will not be copy-protected.
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