Customer Reviews

Anywhere But Here

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(7)

 

 

If you love music and like to be able to copy songs to your IPOD or make .mp3 mixes for your car's .mp3 player, then DON'T BUY THIS CD. You can't do either. In fact, you shouldn't buy ANY CD with copy protection on it that won't allow file conversion and compilation mixing. I like the CD, but I took it, Patty Loveless's new one and Ryan Shupe and the Rubber Band's CDs and sent them back to the manufacturer - they are not worth keeping, and therefore, not worth buying. I was going to simply toss them out, but by sending them back and not buying anymore they'll have no doubt about how stupid this "protection" plan is.

The c.d. would be well worth the money if not for the copyright protection. The last c.d. I bought that had the much hated protection would not play in my Chevy Colorado c.d. player. And I might add, the stereo system was standard, I did not take out the system and upgrade. Now, why, pray tell, would I buy a c.d. that may or may not play in my vehicle? The last c.d. (Joss Stone) played fine in the Toyota Tundra but it sounded like a scratchy 45 in the Colorado. It popped, skipped, and basically sounded terrible. While I understand (I guess) the rational behind copyright protection I do not understand why anyone would think that the average person would spend money on a c.d. and hope against hope that it would play. Sorry Mr. Cagle, I would like to purchase the c.d. but not when the chances of it playing are slim to none.

If you hold the shift key down when you put the CD in your computer the autorun feature is disabled and you can copy the CD.

OK, let's get down to it. I loved this album. I liked every song and I normally would have given it a four or five stars.

The tragedy is the copy protection. The CD has it's own software built in to copy the music onto your hard drive or make a CD copy. Even following the software's instructions (that pop up when you put the CD in your computer), the software successfully copied the songs onto my hard drive--but flaked out completely on the last step when it went out to secure the "license". This left the music completely unlistenable.

I use copying for three purposes other than playing the CD itself. 1.) Make my own complication CD's for long drives. 2.) Play on my IPOD. and 3.) Have my computer shuffle play my large collection of favorite songs through the speakers for hours of enjoyment. Music industry folk can say that it is not their responsibility to see to it that I can do these things. I disagree and object to the whittling away of "fair use". Not being able to do these things reduces a CD's value at least by half.

True, issues about the copy protection say nothing about the music itself--but it says volumes about the PURCHASE. A car can have the most advanced engine under the hood but if the rest of the design is lousy it spoils the package.

The artist needs to know that if his record company does anything to make his fans unhappy they are unhappy with him as well. He needs to raise holy hell with the bosses and if they will not change then he needs to go somewhere else. Sure, easier said than done. But, if a significant part of the buying public will no longer buy his CD's, untimately it's his problem not ours.

This CD is ok regarding country music but the "Copy protection" issue drove me crazy. That without mentioning neither my CD player or my computer at home (Linux system) play this CD. In this case, Chris Cagle and all singers out there should pay more attention to what "the music industry" tried to do. I can tell you I will NOT buy any more CDs if this means having that "protection" installed.... by the way, who is getting protected with this? Certainly not me!

All in all, I enjoyed the CD as far as the vocals and songs but the content protection is terrible. I could not get it to save onto my computer and play. When I tried it ended up crashing the whole system, and when you play it back it sounds grabled and scratchy. They say this helps protect the software but I was just downloading it to my computer for the first time and it still did not work. Be wary of these content protection unless you just want to listen to the CD in your car or stero, otherwise they are useless. I am extremely disappointed by not being able to copy the CD to my computer.

I am a devoted Chris Cagle fan and I think by far this is his best cd yet. But there will only be bigger and better things happening for him in the future. My favorite song on the new cd is You Might Want to Think about That... It reminds us all that we are free to do as we want and we don't need people telling us what to do. And it also reminds us that people fought and died so that we could have this freedom. Chris is also a wonderful live performer and if you ever have a chance to see him don't miss out. You're sure to become a Caglehead too after listening to this new cd.

I love the songs but I am PISSED!!! I have spent HOURS trying to get the cd into my itunes and now I am ready to break it into a million pieces and SCREAM!!! I paid good money for a cd that is completely USELESS to me. I want the music but on principle I will not download it...the record company does not deserve my business after the evening I have had. Not only that but now the cd cannot be enjoyed by someone else (i.e. recycled) when the original purchaser is ready to pass it on because it does not even work when new so pretty much these cds are just garbage someone needs to be slapped for coming up with this idea.

Don't bother with this one. If there's a particular track you like, buy it for 99 cents online somewhere because the rest of the CD certainly isn't worth the other fourteen bucks. Plus with the incredibly aggravating copy protection it's just about useless...

Amazon would be well advised to list which CDs have this protection, becuase I'm sure I'll never knowingly buy another CD that has it, and it makes for a very dissatisfying purchasing experience.

Sorry Chris, your music is great but I can't buy another one of your CD's as your label insists on not allowing me to copy the songs on to my Dell DJ. The software that automatcally load on your PC when you play the CD made my computer re-boot for no reason at all when I put other CD's in to listen to them, wreaked havoc on my musicmatch software and also loads hidden almost impossible to remove software on your computer that also enables viruses from thers to hide on your computer UNDETECTED by virus software. NOTE to music industry, you are forcing customers who normally buy CD's to stop buying to protect our computers from your unwanted software! I buy from 4-6 CD's a month. NO MORE I'm done! NICE JOB!

Music on the CD is not as good as Chris Cagles last two CD's, but still good.