A blank audio CD

[MikeLastort2]

This is the first time this ever happened to me.

I ordered this CD from Amazon

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005RTSV.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

It showed up yesterday. I brought it into work to burn it into my iTunes library, and iTunes didn't recognize. I also brought four other CDs that worked fine.

So I tried WMP. It wasn't recognized as an audio CD. So I took it down to my car, popped it in, and nothing. I brought it back up to my PC and looked at it through Explorer. There were not tracks on the CD. It was completely blank.

They're shipping me a new copy at no cost. I guess if I consider the number of CDs that I have, I should be more surprised that I've never encountered a blank one before. But this is a first.

Has anyone else here ever bought a music CD only to discover there was nothing on it when they tried to play it?

[bungadiri]

Darn. I was hoping I'd finally discovered a thread in which my musical knowledge would be the equal of everybody else's here.

To answer the question, then, no that's never happened to me.

edit: Incidentally, that's one hell of CD cover. I just noticed it.

[srd....]

yeah happened to me once,when they re-released "whiskey in the jar" by thin lizzy,it's a collection of b tracks,most of which i'd never heard,so i was quite looking forward to hearing it.poped it into the player in my car and got cd error message and like you tryed a couple more players before poping it into the p.c. i was well p ***ed off,to say the least.

i also got a dvd free with a magazine once,that was also blank.and for christmass one year my brother gave me "zooropa" by u2,which when i took off the plastic wraper which covers the case,i discovered no c.d. inside :eek: .thankfully though the shop replaced it without any fuss at all.

[ElJefe]

This is the first time this ever happened to me.

I ordered this CD from Amazon

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005RTSV.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

It showed up yesterday. I brought it into work to burn it into my iTunes library, and iTunes didn't recognize. I also brought four other CDs that worked fine.

So I tried WMP. It wasn't recognized as an audio CD. So I took it down to my car, popped it in, and nothing. I brought it back up to my PC and looked at it through Explorer. There were not tracks on the CD. It was completely blank.

They're shipping me a new copy at no cost. I guess if I consider the number of CDs that I have, I should be more surprised that I've never encountered a blank one before. But this is a first.

Has anyone else here ever bought a music CD only to discover there was nothing on it when they tried to play it?
Frankly, I'm more intrigued by the CD that you were ordering.

[chad]

It's ok.

[skipshady]

Frankly, I'm more intrigued by the CD that you were ordering.
It's quality Dan the Automator. Not as good as the first Handsome Boy Modeling School or Dr Octagon but still very good.

I found that the Bloc Party CD I got at the show doesn't play on my computer. Since I don't own a standalone CD player, not sure if the computer or the CD is the problem. Since I obviously don't have a store receipt, what's my recourse?

[Footix]

It's quality Dan the Automator. Not as good as the first Handsome Boy Modeling School or Dr Octagon but still very good.

I found that the Bloc Party CD I got at the show doesn't play on my computer. Since I don't own a standalone CD player, not sure if the computer or the CD is the problem. Since I obviously don't have a store receipt, what's my recourse?

Call Vice Records in Brooklyn, and tell them. They are very cool, and will probably drop one in the mail to you, unless you wanna hop on your Razor and scoot over their yourself.

I once bought a Dramarama CD, and when I put it in the player found that it played Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon"! Seriously. I kept it, since it's such a goofy thing, but now that I think of it, there must be some rich Floyd collector out there needing to add it to his collection. I oughta look into that.

[bmurphyfl]

I once bought a Dramarama CD, and when I put it in the player found that it played Pink Floyd's "Dark Side Of The Moon"! Seriously. I kept it, since it's such a goofy thing, but now that I think of it, there must be some rich Floyd collector out there needing to add it to his collection. I oughta look into that.

If "Colin Meloy Sings Morrisey" sells for $60 on eBay, I'm guessing that your freaky little CD would easily clear $100 (and probably more if you can get some trendy music blog to talk it up).

[Crimen y Castigo]

I'm gonna start posting ...

"Has anyone ever heard of the rare Dramarama Side of the Moon pressing? It's like totally rare."

... on every music site I visit.

[Ringo]

I bought a two volume CD of frank once and the music was there, but the printing was wrong.
They printed disc one's track listing on disc two.

it was the worst thing that ever happened to me.

[Footix]

I'm gonna start posting ...

"Has anyone ever heard of the rare Dramarama Side of the Moon pressing? It's like totally rare."

... on every music site I visit.

Sweet. I'll pledge 10% of the final sales price to your tab at Amoeba.

[royalstilton]

Since I don't own a standalone CD player, not sure if the computer or the CD is the problem. Since I obviously don't have a store receipt, what's my recourse?
---
well, well, well...

i see the problem perfectly. you haven't found it necessary to create an opportunity to listen to music in a format that allows you to actually hear the music as it was "intended" to be heard.

i'm sorry, but you have done extreme violence to your credibility as a music listener. but not to worry...a small investment will overcome this problem.

[Iceblink]

I never had a blank cd, but I did once buy a tape at a music store.... it was supposed to be a Descendents album... "Enjoy" and it was definitely not. It was some insane shrieking metal stuff.

To this day, I have never heard "Enjoy." I wish I still had that tape so someone could tell me what in the world that metal stuff was. It was the summer of '86 or sometime in '87 though, so I definitely lost it.

[YanksFC]

There are CD's that I've purchased that I now wish had been blank (paging Ms. Nina Gordon and Ms. Melissa Auf Der Maur . . . ), but alas, they weren't.

[taosjohn]

It's quality Dan the Automator. Not as good as the first Handsome Boy Modeling School or Dr Octagon but still very good.

I found that the Bloc Party CD I got at the show doesn't play on my computer. Since I don't own a standalone CD player, not sure if the computer or the CD is the problem. Since I obviously don't have a store receipt, what's my recourse?

Some piracy protection systems will prevent a computer from even cueing or playing the CD, not just dubbing it... not sure whether this is how they're supposed to work or unexpected effect, but I've got several...

[bmurphyfl]

I'm gonna start posting ...

"Has anyone ever heard of the rare Dramarama Side of the Moon pressing? It's like totally rare."

... on every music site I visit.

I started the hype machine with the Pink Floyd Group forum on Audioscrobbler:

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/group/Pink%2BFloyd/forum/997/_/33268/1

Rare Pink Floyd Disc
Have you guys ever heard about the Dramarama/Pink Floyd disc? My friend has a copy and it's kind of freaky. He bought a Dramarama album and when he started playing it, it played Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon"; not Dramarama. All of the printing and packaging is correct for the Dramarama disc but it plays Floyd, man!

The two bands weren't even on the same label. Dramarama was on Chameleon while Floyd was, of course, on Capitol. So, the mix-up must have happened at the factory.

I forget what Dramarama album it was but it's kind of cool. Have any of you ever seen/heard the disc?

There has to be a Pink Floyd message board out there somewhere or a blog dedicated to them.

[MikeLastort2]

Some piracy protection systems will prevent a computer from even cueing or playing the CD, not just dubbing it... not sure whether this is how they're supposed to work or unexpected effect, but I've got several...

That might be the case here. The replacement that they sent me appears to be blank on my computer. But it wasn't blank on a CD player.

I bought the damn thing. If I want to copy it, I should be allowed to do so.

[taosjohn]

I bought the damn thing. If I want to copy it, I should be allowed to do so.

Say amen somebody!

I'm told that at the beginnings of antipiracy recording a certain percentage of cds would not play at all, even in cd players, That is they would cue and start, but skip continuously... which of course made them very secure...

My similar story is from the vinyl era-- I once found two copies of an obliviously obscure and valuable album in a 37c bin... a band called "The City" which Carol King was once in...Bought 'em both and hurried home to open one and find out what the unfuss was all about-- as a music guy I was more intersted in the aesthetic than the investment, of course; but planned to keep the second sealed.

Only the one I opened proved to have "Wild and Peaceful" by Kool and the Gang inside... which was utterly weird because the two albums were four years apart in release dates...

After some self- debate I went ahead and opened the other, and sure enough... same story.

How two lps from a different year and label got sealed into those sleeves is beyond me... I think packaging was still finalized by hand then, except for the shrink wrap; but was someone employing blind folks to do it? And keeping stacks of unused jackets loose in their storeroom? Or was the crew high on something more than weed or what?

[Footix]

I started the hype machine with the Pink Floyd Group forum on Audioscrobbler:

http://www.audioscrobbler.com/group/Pink%2BFloyd/forum/997/_/33268/1



There has to be a Pink Floyd message board out there somewhere or a blog dedicated to them.

Ha! Nice work...you've got a future in PR.

It's actually the Cinema Verite album (the one with "Anything, Anything") and if I remember correctly it was on New Rose, before their deal with Chameleon. I've gotta dig that thing up this weekend.

Funny thing is, I bought it used at a Tower somewhere out of a blowout bin. I'm betting some kid bought it originally on a whim and decided they were way to prog for his new wave tastes, and returned it!

[nicodemus]

I ordered a CD a few years back and it came with only the case, but no CD. Thankfully the company believed me and expressed another one out to me.