Although I have iTunes as my default music player, whenever I insert a
certain CD that I want to convert to my iTunes format, a Windows Media
Player starts up (it notes a Macrovision copyright as well) that
completely overrides the ability of my iPod to download off the CD.
iTunes doesn't even "see" my CD.   How can I pull the music off this
CD into iTunes?

Hello prpro-ga,

Windows Media Player is set as the default for Audio CD?s you put in
your computer. Let me tell you how to change that.

1. Double click on My Computer or find it in your Start menu and open it up.
2. Right Click on the drive you use for your CD?s. For Example, mine
is the E: Drive.
3. Choose Properties.
4. Chose the ?AutoPlay? tab that is available in the newly open Properties Window.
5. Go to the drop-down menu and choose ?Music CD?.
6. Change to Import Songs with iTunes.
7. Hit ?Apply? (Bottom Right)

This will make it where when you insert a CD in your computer, iTunes
knows to import the songs so that you can transfer them to your iPod.

If this answer requires further explanation, please request
clarification before rating it, and I'll be happy to look into this
further.
Nenna-GA
Google Answers Researcher

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Request for Answer Clarification by prpro-ga on 17 Jan 2005 07:05 PST

Thanks, amiable_ feline, nenna, et al!  Looks like my problem is just
that: copyright protection that makes it unusable on my iPod.  Totally
irksome!!!

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Clarification of Answer by nenna-ga on 17 Jan 2005 08:17 PST

Glad you have your problem solved.

Nenna-GA

I will assume that your O/S is Windows XP for this comment.

From your description it sounds like WMP is setup to autoplay any
Audio CD inserted to your computer.

Please do the following:
1. Double click on the My Computer Icon on your desktop.
2. Right-click on your CD drive [If you have more than one select the
one you use to play music]
3. In the tab, select Properties
4. Hopefully a new window should of opened, select Autoplay in the new window.

5. There should be a menu with 'Music Files' selected as default,
click on that to open up the drop down menu, select Music CD.

6. From here you can select multiple options, I'm assuming the current
action selected is Play Audio CD using WMP, scroll down and select
Import Songs using iTunes.

Hopefully this will solve your problem, alternatively you can select
Prompt me each time to choose an action, so that you're not stuck to
just 1 option.

I hope this has solved your problem =)

The solution is simple. wheather you have a pc or mac, all you have to
do is open itunes, go to file: preferences, and then where it says "on
cd insert", select import songs

Hi,

As you said iTune is the default music player and yet the Windows
Media Player starts up when u insert the CD. What exactly the file
extensions the CD is having ? as the music files comes with different
extension, what you have to do is that you have to right click mouse
on the that file and select the option "open with" and once you click
on it you will see the popup of programs, choose iTune for it and once
you do this whatever extension music files your CD is having will get
played automatically via iTUNE.

Happy listening..
Sanjay

I'm sorry for the delay in answering, but -- for whatever reason --
none of your solutions work with this particular CD.  This is just
weird...

Looks like you've run into a copy-protected cd. (as you may have
suspected when you saw the Macrovision copyright notice ). The cd is
purposely made so that it will only play in Windows Media Player or
players which support the particular copy-protection scheme on the cd.
Sadly, iTunes is not compatible (yet). Rumor has it that upcoming
versions of the copy-protection software may support iTunes, but that
doesn't help your problem now.

Here's a link to an article about this:
http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2004Jul/bma20040721026103.htm

Sorry there's no easy solution. If you're annoyed by this restriction,
you might take a few minutes to complain via email to the record
company, macrovision, and/or Apple. Squeaky wheel gets the grease, as
they say, and maybe if enough people gripe something will be done.

--
amiable_feline

Unfortunately, the problem isn't really solved -- I simply won't be
able to move m music from this CD to my iPod.  Needless to say, I
won't buy from this recording label again!