Infinito Particular

Marisa Monte | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: March 25, 2006
• Release Date: March 25, 2006
• Label: BLUE NOTE
• Copyright: (C) 2006 Monte Criação E Produção Ltda This Labelcopy information is the subject of Copyright Protection. All rights reserved. (C) 2006 EMI Music Brasil Ltda
• Total Length: 38:53
• Genres:
• ASIN: B000SX8A1U
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #84,983 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Four stars for music, but REMOVE THE COPY PROTECTION, July 29, 2006

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Walter C. Bornemeier "CaliMusicLover" (Napa, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Infinito Particular (Arg) (Audio CD)

For Marisa fans, this is an absolutely beautiful album. I've listened to it many times weekly since I purchased it. I highly recommend it, WITH reservations. I went through serious torture just getting it into mp3 format to play on my iPod. If anyone would like instructions on how to circumvent this lame copy protection scheme in order to play this music on a different medium-within the scope of the license you purchase with the music-please email me and I'll be glad to share how to do it. This is a classic example of publishing companies gone too far. If Marisa's next album comes out with EMI copy protection, I will be forced to stop recommending her music.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Again be prepared to be transported to a celestial world, October 21, 2006

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Humberto Mejia "Still alive and kicking" (Perth, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Infinito Particular (Audio CD)

Marisa Monte has done it again with an album where all the songs are soft, clear and relaxing.

If you are into brazilian contemporary, you cannot miss Marisa Monte. As a raod warrior I carry her in my pack of cds to help me relax, order my thoughts and let go.

I would add that I did expect a bit more variation, for her voice is well adapted to every style she wishes to explore. Yet this album is quite the same in all its tone (which is not bad, but if you are new to MM better start with roses and carbon).

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 5 stars music on a 1 star CD, June 13, 2007

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Pipo Jones "bookworm" (PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Infinito Particular (Audio CD)

Marisa Monte's voice is as gorgeous as a woman's voice can ever hope to be and the songs in this album are beautiful. You will want to take this music everywhere with you, in your CD player and in your personal digital player.

However, EMI has made sure that it is not easy for you to use iTunes to rip the music and create AAC files for your iPod. The CD carries a Windows program to protect the music content and to restrict the ways in which you are allowed to use the content that you have paid for. Pop it in to your computer's CD drive on a Windows machine and the Autorun feature takes control. It will allow you to burn identical copies for back up (carrying the nasty program with them) or to generate WMA files at 128 kpbs encoding. EMI has made these decisions for you and only with some pain you can bypass them. Their website states that it's Apple who is at fault for not licensing their DRM to third parties. This makes this CD unusable in iTunes. This thin excuse collapses when you consider that even using Windows Media you cannot freely choose the encoding bit rate for the music you bought.

Fortunately, I discovered that I could use a Linux ripper (grip) to extract the tracks as .wav and then use them to burn a real audio CD without this abominable "copy control" program which is sold as an "enhancement" to this product. The clean audio CD is iTunes friendly and only with this gimmick you can generate the AAC files for your iPod. Shame on EMI for making me waste an hour of my time to be able to use the content I paid for in the way that is most convenient to me.

After one hour of monkeying around, I finally can enjoy Marisa's beautiful music in the digital player that I own. No thanks to EMI for the hassle.