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For the discs that are merely MULTISESSION the only way I have found around this problem is to extract the songs individually. They can either be played from the harddrive or you can burn them to a disc using custom assembly. Trying to copy the entire disc as it is will not work. And the very newest discs have a different protection block which will apparently be added to their backcatalog as well.

For the discs that are merely MULTISESSION I use Microstudio and I read and burn with an external SCSI Yamaha 4416 drive.

When you go to extract the files from the disc to your hard drive you will find an extra track at the end of the disc (a 15 song disc will show 16 tracks). You must not include that track! Whatever information it contains is what causes the problems reading the discs.

One small problem I have had is that when I get to the last actual CDG track and extract it, Microstudio sometimes won't add it to the songlist. It does however copy it to the hard drive, so it is just a matter of selecting "select from hard drive" instead of "from CD" for that track to add it to the songlist before burning.

Once you have burned the disc it can be played and backed-up from like a non-protected disc.

Unfortunately the newest discs have a different block and I have been unable to extract the tracks on the newest discs. I just tried on SC8718 and SC8719 and neither can be read. I have even tried programs that let you read the sector numbers and extract using them, but they can not read the data either.