“Look, Scott,” Duff said, “there’s also soundtrack stuff we’ve been asked to do. But being a nice guy, I said, “There’s some stuff that’s okay, but just send me another disc when you have a few new songs.” It sounded like Bad Company-styled classic rock. “They think you’ll like what they’re doing.” “They put some songs on a CD that they want you to hear,” Mary said. David Kushner from Wasted Youth took his place. Initially, Izzy Stradlin was in, but soon opted out. Susan told Mary that three guys from GNR - Duff on bass, Matt Sorum on drums, and Slash on guitar - had formed a band. She said she’d been hanging with Susan McKagan, a former swimsuit supermodel and wife of Duff, the bass player with Guns N’ Roses when the group was at its height. Mary wanted out of the marriage - the agony of our divorce went on for years - but Mary still took an interest in my career. We kinda wonder if Microsoft's Xbox violated some deal with the record companies since the Xbox can just copy the songs like it does with all CDs, it's not in any "approved" list either.Slipping and sliding, peeping and hiding.īasically, the story was that Mary had cleaned up and I hadn’t. In fact, Microsoft is even disabling this in their next security focused service pack. By default Windows will automatically look for a file called Autorun.inf on any CD you pop in to your system, we've always known this is a big security issue as there are a lot of spyware and viruses distributed on CDs, you read about this every week. Well, for us, it wasn't an issue, why? Well, we have always disabled "Auto-Run" on our Windows based system, since like Windows 95, we've always disabled that "feature". On the disc there are music files, WMA, but they don't seem to play on any device we have which plays WMAs, the site says only "approved" devices, yikes! Sadly, the way RCA and SunnComn want you to listen to music is pretty complicated, you'd need to insert the CD on your PC, wait up to one minute, click an end user agreement, then only "listen" to the music, oh- wait there is more- it installs software which blocks making MP3s and it requires a web connection to exchange "data" and keys. If SunnComn sounds familiar, they should, these are the folks who were going to sue a Princeton student for 10 million dollars for writing a paper that showed by pressing the shift key while inserting the CD (and of course, pressing the shift key still works on this CD too according to all reports). The disc has "Copy Protection" from SunnComn called MediaMax, which on some Windows systems will force the user to install software on their system in order to listen to the music and restrict what they do with the music, for example you cannot make MP3s. But it shouldn't have if it were up to the people who made that CD.Īfter looking around on the web it seems the folks from RCA Records actually don't want anyone to make MP3s of the songs, they don't want you to listen to the music you just purchased on your iPod or even your Xbox. Was this all a dream? Did it really happen? It did. Lastly, we popped the CD in our PC (Win XP) and also ran iTunes to add the songs to our library. Also, the Linux box in our kitchen (Xandros) was able to read and make MP3s just fine too. Next up, inserted the disc in to our Mac, started iTunes and then iTunes put the newly created MP3s on our iPod.
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