Thats strange, I have played my original CD on my home stereo (Sony 5 CD
changer) TDK Mojo and on my Pioneer car player without any problems.

I ripped each track using Audiograbber as a wav file on my hard drive and
burned a unprotected (!) CD copy with no problem. I just did the same to my
Bangles "Doll Revolution" Import CD that uses the same copy protection for
my Live365 stations.

"Respect Our Music" (Pftttph!)
Billy



At 11:45 PM 5/27/03 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>I'm really enjoying both the new MS Japanese release (thanks Bruce, it was
worth the $32) and The Thorns (I'll agree that it's a tad overproduced, but
nice nonetheless), but I have one complaint.  On the Japanese release at
exactly :09 of each track, I hear what I can only refer to as a "blemish".
>It's not exactly a skip, it's kind of a burp in each song.  I'm guessing
that it may have something to do with the CD copy protection - if you look
at the underside of the CD, you can clearly see some sort of ring in the
center.  I've only played it on my car stereo, so I guess that it's possible
>that another CD player might not pick up the blemish - but is anyone else
having this problem?  It's irritating the hell out of me - other than that,
I think this is a very, very strong release.
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
>np: nothing, I'm at work and the executives are all here today :(
>