Copy-protected Audio CD

[licensedtokill]

Perhaps a "Stand-alone CD player emulator" (ignore data tracks, error interpolation correction, ignore corrupt TOC, etc.) so that those lame copy-protected CDs can be played/ripped on a computer? I know there are various ways to get around some of these protections, but I haven't seen anything that can "dumb-down" the CD-ROM drives yet.

[,jACkdA\W]

How should that work? To my knowledge, if a CD-ROM drive doesn't get along with some Un-CD, there's nothing to be done about that except possibly a firmware update. Software solutions won't help with that.

[licensedtokill]

It's not always that the drive is physically incapable of reading the disc; not all copy protection schemes are that sophisticated. Sometimes it's just how they read them. For example, most cd-player will ignore data tracks and "guess" in realtime when it reads an error, but a CD-ROM won't ignore the data and won't guess the errors. Some discs can be copied, but you need to jump through some hoops.

[,jACkdA\W]

Well, i've always found (so far at least) that if the CD-ROM can properly initialize the disk and thus access the data, it wasn't a problem to extract it. Probably using EAC/Feurio/CloneCD/AudioCatalyst/WTF-ever, but i never met an Un-CD that gave me problems beyond this point. But then, i never cared too much about this entire affair either, so i ain't an expert on it 8)

[licensedtokill]

Yes, it's often possible if you have the right tools, but it would be a lot easier to just be able to put it in and play/copy it. Maybe you would have to write something akin to a device driver though...I don't know.

[Copytrooper]

There's no way to get around firmware limitations - so if a cd/dvd drive doesn't recognize the protected cd correctly no driver is able to change this.
AnyDVD and DVDRegion+CSSFree offer some audio cd protection workarounds - did you check them out yet? Maybe it works with your drive.