Led Zeppelin CD's are distorted when played / ripped - copy protected?

[Giraffro]

I'm trying to rip Led Zeppelin 2-4 & Physical Graffiti to FLAC's using Banshee, but they come out distorted. Turns out even playing the CD in Movie Player or VLC gives distortion. I suspect this is due to copy protection, since I don't have problems with my other CD's. Reading around, it seems Warner was implementing copy protection around the time I bought them.

Is there a way to find out if this is the case or bypass this? They play fine in another PC running Windows 7.

Thanks!

[JoeDuncan]

That's the way it's supposed to sound.

Jimmy Page made extensive use of distortion pedals.

[realzippy]

and Jimmy wouldn't sign code of conduct.

[Giraffro]

Well I managed to fix it by updating the drive firmware. Seems there's a lot of trouble with TSSTcorp drives and Warner Music CD's, so just leaving this note here to help others. I found the firmware here.

[Habitual]

and Jimmy wouldn't sign code of conduct.

funny.

[Tamao]

Had the same problem with Yes' Tales from topographic oceans (Warner as well), and CD-reader hp DDVDW TS-H653R (so says hdparm).
Strange...

(did not find the firmware though, but switching computer helped !)

[qtheraider]

I've had the same problem with 14 cd's so far all wea I use two laptops both hp one on windows 7 & one on windows 8 could it be just hp computers that are not compatible or is it more widespread?

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