Erik Jensen

Yes, that's what I usually do. It didn't work in this case due to scratches on the disc preventing the files from being correctly copied by Foobar2000, hence needing to use ddrescue (and two different optical drives) to successfully create an iso backup of the disc. The trick was figuring out, once I had successfully created the encrypted iso backup and extracted the AUDIO_TS files from it, how to coax the plugin to decrypt those files, using the key from the physical disc, without copying all of...

Naturally I finally found a solution shortly after posting (though please let me know if there's a better one): Extract all of the files from the AUDIO_TS folder in the rescue iso except “DVDAUDIO.MKB” and “DVDAUDIO.BUP” into a new folder. Open the physical disc with Foobar2000 and stop playback. Right click a track→File operations→Copy to… Make sure “Copy entire source folder content” is checked and “File name” is %filename% as usual. For “Destination”, select the folder containing the files (“AUDIO_TS.IFO”,...

I have a disc that has some scratches and copying the files from from the disc with Foobar2000 as I normally would fails. However, I was able to extract a full (encrypted) iso of the disc using ddrescue and two different drives. If I open the disc directly with Foobar2000, the plugin fetches the key from the disc and playback starts successfully. However, unsurprisingly, playing back the iso fails because the tracks are still encrypted and in this case the plugin doesn't have the key. Is there any...

The start of the second paragraph should be "This almost always happens…"

Medium, CIRC, command-failed, and similar read errors shouldn't abort rip