I assume you want to burn a copy of a EMI Copy Controlled CD (and getting rid of the protection wouldn't be a problem). http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/27915 This thread will help probably. In short: - If you have the wrong drive there's no chance - use Exact Audio Copy for extracting audio to .wav files, a tutorial is here: http://www.cd-rw.org/articles/archive/mydeneaclame.cfm Instead of extracting to mp3s extract to .wav files or to image + cue (uncompressed) - If the CD isn't recognized properly use "Detect TOC manually" feature and/or insert the CD a while before starting EAC. - For burning you can use EAC too or Nero (can handle image + CUE sheet AFAIK).