I hadn't thought of the copy-protected thing, bicyclops. I'll have to check.

If that is the case, am I just screwed then, and unable to listen to those CDs on my iPod? Because that pretty much sucks.

And aren't more and more CDs being copy-protected these days? I know the Garden State soundtrack is, and I think the new U2 album is too.

Yep- if it's the copyright protection thing, we're screwed for now. I tried bypassing the registration bit, which worked, but it still loads the song into iTunes as a big old garbled mess. I've stopped buying the cds with the label, and so far, both albums I've wanted have been on the iTunes Music Store. But it made me extraordinarily grumpy.

ETA- The two I've wanted have been the new Sarah McLachlan Live cd and Charlotte Martin's 'On Your Shore'.

And aren't more and more CDs being copy-protected these days? I know the Garden State soundtrack is

Is it? I haven't tried to copy it yet, but I did rip it to my iTunes w/o a problem. So if I tried to burn it, I'd be SOL?

I think the new U2 album is too.

It went into my iPod fine, whatever that's worth. But I got the regular one, not the deluxe collector's edition.

That could be because copy protection doesn't frickin' work.

I don't know about ripping to iTunes or an iPod, but I tried to copy both CDs recently and had no luck.

The only CD I have that won't go into iTunes is Radiohead's "OK Computer," and I think that's probably because I got it from the dollar bin at a used CD store and it's pretty banged up.

But, you know, it plays, so I won't replace it.

I haven't tried copying the new U2 -- even on my 2004 mix, I used a live version of "Sometimes ..." But my downloaded version of "Only Living Boy in New York" from ther Garden State soundtrack burned to CD fine.

But my downloaded version of "Only Living Boy in New York" from ther Garden State soundtrack burned to CD fine.

Heh. When I got home from seeing Garden State I immediately put on the Simon & Garfunkel record with that song on it. My parent's original 30+ year-old record. That was my favorite album when I was 3. And the record still plays beautifully.

WNYC's American Music Festival 2005 Picks, All-Time Favorite Recordings of American Music

Some of the usual - and eminently worthy - suspects (Kind of Blue, Frank Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely, Aaron Copland, Ellington, Monk) along with some quirky choices, including one that cries out to be in LITG Vol. 2 (see below), and one that may be in the first volume. Is Parallelograms the Linda Perhacs album that Kim wrote about? That was one of the choices of Irene Trudel, Soundcheck’s Technical Director/Senior Concerts Engineer. I bet John Schaefer (Soundcheck's host) would love to do a phone in w/ David & Kim. There's the Routledge/NY connection. It's clearly meant to be.

The one that needs to be in vol. 2 was picked by Ed Haber, WNYC Senior Concert Engineer, Peter Ivers’ Band with Yolande Bavan: Knight Of The Blue Communion (emphasis added):

This music never changed the world and probably had no impact on anybody else’s music—but I find it extraordinary, an album I come back to year in and year out. I describe it as “Schoenberg meets Howling Wolf,” but that’s not meant to be taken literally. Peter Ivers’ music on this record uses avant-garde classical patterns and sounds and sets them off against his own Chicago blues based harmonica playing and Yolande Bavan’s jazz vocal styles (she’s a singer and actress from Sri Lanka, still best known for replacing Annie Ross in Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross). With a strong rock rhythm section and elements of jazz free improv thrown in, it’s amazing that the concept is not overwhelmed by the individual elements involved. In fact, it’s all exceptionally coherent and remarkably joyful. (Peter Ivers went on to record several perhaps more conventional song albums, none of which were nearly as successful artistically as Knight Of The Blue Communion.)