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  2. List of Compact Disc and DVD copy protection schemes

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    Another deliberate violation of the Red Book standard intended to make the CD play only on CD players and not on computers by applying bogus data track onto the disc during manufacturing, which CD players will ignore as non-audio tracks. The system could be disabled by tracing the outer edge of a CD with a felt-tip marker. [3] MediaMax CD3

  3. Compact Disc and DVD copy protection - Wikipedia

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    For example, audio tracks on such media cannot be easily added to a personal music collection on a computer's hard disk or a portable (non-CD) music player. Also, many ordinary CD audio players (e.g. in car radios) had problems playing copy-protected media, mostly because they used hardware and firmware components also used in CD-ROM drives ...

  4. Portable CD player - Wikipedia

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    Some early portable CD players do not play recordable CDs (CD-R, CD-RW) properly due to the significantly lower reflectivity of CD-RW.A consumer-recorded CD is recorded by making marks in a thin layer of organic dye, which leads to incompatibility with some CD players.

  5. Private copying levy - Wikipedia

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    MP3 player, set-top box with built-in hard drive, DVD player with built-in hard drive, TV with built-in hard drive and other media players with built-in hard drive: 1 - 320 GB 1 SEK/ GB > 320 GB 320 SEK / pc; Mobile phones with storage: For mobile phones with storage 3 SEK / GB; Recordable CDs and DVDs: CD-r All up to 900 MB 0.60 SEK

  6. CD player - Wikipedia

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    A portable CD player is a portable audio player used to play compact discs. Portable CD players are powered by batteries and they have a 1/8" headphone jack into which the user plugs a pair of headphones. The first portable CD player released was the D-50 by Sony. [58]

  7. Portable media player - Wikipedia

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    Today, every smartphone also serves as a portable media player; however, prior to the rise of smartphones in the 2007–2012 time frame, a variety of handheld players were available to store and play music. The immediate predecessor to the portable media player was the portable CD player and prior to that, the personal stereo.

  8. Discman - Wikipedia

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    By August 1983 the company was able to produce a CD player which was one-tenth the size of the original, and a portable CD player became a possibility. [citation needed] The aim was to create a player that was the same size as four CD cases stacked on top of each other. A piece of wood 13.4 cm across and about 4 cm thick was shown to the staff ...

  9. List of compact disc player manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    CD players are often a part of home stereo systems, car audio systems, and personal computers. They are also manufactured as portable devices. Modern units can play other formats in addition to PCM audio coding used in CDs, such as MP3, AAC and WMA. DJs often use players with an adjustable playback speed to alter the pitch and tempo