Decemberists DRM?

November 7, 2006 7:15 PM

So I bought the new Decemberists' record The Crane Wife and iTunes (7.0.2) on OS 10.4.8 won't recognize it; just spits the CD tray back out. This is making me really angry(!!) as I'm thinking it's some DRM issue. Anyone else have this experience?
posted by xmutex to Computers & Internet (9 answers total)

No but I had this exact issue with a Devendra Bandhart album once a while back (with iTunes 6.x). I had to load it into iTunes on a Windows machine then copy the files over to my Mac using a thumb drive. Don't know to this day why it worked in Windows and didn't work on the Mac, but you might want to give it a shot with the Decemberists and see if you have any luck.
posted by crapples at 7:31 PM on November 7, 2006

Happened to me with a Paul Simon album in the spring. I concluded it wasn't DRM, because on certain Macs it loaded - often after spinning weirdly for a long time.
posted by thejoshu at 8:09 PM on November 7, 2006

You could always Audio Hijack it.
posted by JPowers at 8:40 PM on November 7, 2006

I should have mentioned: since you can't play it in iTunes, you'll need to hijack it by playing each track in something like VLC player or Quicktime.
posted by JPowers at 8:42 PM on November 7, 2006

It's not DRM. I have the cd and didn't have that prob with iTunes. Try booting with the CD inside and see if you can open iTunes and play it that way.

And crapples, there's no D in Devendra's last name.
posted by dobbs at 9:16 PM on November 7, 2006

What do you get if you double click on the CD in the Finder? The Finder (at least in Tiger) reads audio CDs as a volume full of AIFF's which can be copied like any other file. If you can't read it in the Finder, something deeper is going on.
posted by nathan_teske at 12:43 AM on November 8, 2006

In system prefs, turn off the open iTunes when audio cd is inserted option. This should allow you to see the cd in the finder and work with it there.
posted by OmieWise at 7:05 AM on November 8, 2006

Correction accepted. Don't love the album all that much either, it's more my wife's taste.
posted by crapples at 3:39 PM on November 8, 2006

Ask a question at their forums.
posted by Mr. Gunn at 9:29 AM on November 9, 2006