Re: Unplayable CD

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:58:36 +0000, Ben Shimmin
<bas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Adrian Tuddenham <poppy.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I bought a CD yesterday (Manu Chao, _La Radiolina_).

iTunes doesn't recognise it as a music CD, and can't play it. Some
interactive content on it is accessible.

It says it's a CD - it has the CD logo on it.

Are there many of these things about, and what can one do about them?

If it has the rectangular "Compact Disc" logo, it should comply with
'Red Book' standards and be playable on any standard player. If it
doesn't have the logo, or does but won't play, it is not a Compact Disc
and should not have been sold as such.

Full refund and/or Trading Standards.

It's available on the iTunes Music Store, too, which might help.

It's a bucketload more useful than all these people saying "take it
back". That works okay for generic items that you can replace with
somethiing similar, but not when you actually want to listen to La
Radiolina.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
Storage space and computing power are dirt cheap; our task isn't
to "use them efficiently," it's to "squander them creatively."
-- David Gelernter
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