Anyone Know How to Download the "Karma" CD by Delerium to ITunes?

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Anyone Know How to Download the "Karma" CD by Delerium to ITunes?

Hi Forum,

I have been trying to import the CD Karma, by Delerium, to my iTunes with no success. I have had several version of iTunes, including the latest, 10.0.1.22 , but every time I tried to import the CD it just gets stuck on the first song and never starts the download.

I could have sworn I had imported this CD before, but it is not on my iPod Nano 2nd Gen now, so maybe I never did?

Anyway has anyone experienced the same problem with Karma and if so how did you fix it? I have had no other problems importing other CD's into my iTunes.

Thanks!

DELL, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Nov 21, 2010 7:23 PM

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Katrina S.

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Nov 21, 2010 8:36 PM in response to bond_fan

You could try importing it using windows media player as an mp3, then add it to itunes.
If WMP won't import it, then maybe something is wrong with the CD.

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b noir

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Nov 21, 2010 9:22 PM in response to bond_fan

Hmmm. There may be somrthing peculiar going on with the first track of that particular CD:

http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=17418

I'm not sure if it relates to Sony DRM though (even though it's mentioned in that thread).

Katrina, do you know if Sony is still accepting CDs as part of their DRM-recall thingy? (Nettwerk used to be part of Sony, even though the label has parted ways with them now.)

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Nov 22, 2010 11:07 AM in response to b noir

Hi Katrina & b noir!

Thanks for your responses!

I don't think it's a problem with the first track. It maybe some copy protection thing that is set-up with iTunes?

I tried importing it through Windows Media player, but had similar problems. I got a message saying it wasn't able to rip with digital mode and suggested analog mode, which didn't work either. ARGH!

How I got around all there problems with trying to import the Karma CD was this:

1. I found I had previously recorded my fav songs from the CD to a CD-R, so I could play on my car stereo from the original CD using a Marantz CDR 630 Professional CD Recorder. (What this does is allow a person to re-record the burned CD to another CD-R.)

2. I took that mix CD-R and it actually imported the songs into my iTunes library for me.

3. I then named the tracks and album to reflect what appears on Karma, though the track numbers are wrong, as they were how they appeared on my mix CD-R.

4. Got album art from iTunes store. I am able to now put them onto my iPods now!

PS. I just noticed that with the latest version of iTunes that one just can't paste the album art into the library, as they must have an iTunes account, sign-in to the iTunes store to get the album art.

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Chris CA

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Nov 22, 2010 11:36 AM in response to bond_fan

It maybe some copy protection thing that is set-up with iTunes?

No. iTunes only uses copy protection (DRM) for its own downloads.
Since it also doesn't work in WMP, it is not because of iTunes.

I just noticed that with the latest version of iTunes that one just can't paste the album art into the library, as they must have an iTunes account, sign-in to the iTunes store to get the album art.

Pasting artwork and geting artwork are two completely separate things.
Did you RIP these files as WAV? If so, WAV files do not have tags so artwork cannot be pasted into them but iTunes scan get artwork.

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Katrina S.

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Nov 22, 2010 2:14 PM in response to bond_fan

Right, it WMP won't import it, then it might be one of those copy-protected CDs that is purposely set up to thwart anyone ripping to their PC.
See this web page
http://forum.dbpoweramp.com/showthread.php?t=17418

Which I would return it to the store, but sounds like you've had it too long to do that.

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bond_fan Author

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Nov 24, 2010 12:18 PM in response to Chris CA

I'm not sure how the songs were recorded from the original CD to my CD-R from my CD recorder, but I discovered a small icon near the bottom left hand side of the iTunes that made the album artwork place holder come up, so I was able to paste the album art into that area to make it work.

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Nov 24, 2010 12:21 PM in response to Katrina S.

Katrina,

The CD was bought a long time ago as you thought, but at least I have figured out that I can copy to my iTunes recordings from this particular CD that I have burned to a CD-R from my professional CD burner, using the CD-R as the source from which to record to my iTunes.

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