Customer Reviews

Tribute to Jim Reeves

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3 star:		(3)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(24)

 

 

I regret buying this CD due to the copy protection. I've spent 15 minutes trying to play this thing on my PC and still have not heard the 1st note of music. It's a total pain in the butt.
The CD plays fine in my car, however I like to listen to CD's at work and I'll be damned if I want to jump through hoops to play them. I've tried to contact Charley Pride via his web-site, but the email link is broke. I wonder if it was intentional.
If you want to play this CD on your PC or if your stereo has a combination CD/DVD player, think twice before putting out your hard earned money.

i love this CD - my dad used to be a big fan of 'gentleman jim' and it is great to hear charley singing his songs. all the songs are great but 'blue boy' and 'adios amigo' (which brought a tear to my eye) are the highlights.

i had no problems with the copy protection until i went to play the CD in my new car and sure enough, it doesn't work. I would tape a copy for the car but my new car like most only has a CD player. charley seems like a pretty smart guy and i'm sure he wouldn't have done this on purpose. obviously the copy system still has a few bugs! as for now i guess i will just listen at home.

without that issue, definitely a five star CD for fans of jim and charley. hopefully they will rerelease it in a better format that works with all CD players.

I have this CD. I also have the Australian CD version of the same album of songs and includes more songs in a tribute to Jim Reeves but guess what - the Australian release is not encrypted.

Charley, the music industry has lied to the public from day one. When they dropped vinyl to go to CD they claimed they had to double the prices of albums from 7.98 to 15.98 to 'cover the costs'. but everyone knows now what a lie that is.

On top of that, we know that they also use the most ridiculous accounting sytems in which nothing ever makes a profit except when it comes to their bottom line. The music industry has sat on their collective butts when the internet became popular and think that they can continue to rip people off.

Instead of trying to sue people and thinking that they're 'losing' money because of the internet - they should be looking for ways to improve things and taking advantage of the added interest the internet has brought to music.

Charley, your music has always been the best, a cut above the noised that they call country today. I'll forgive you for this release for I think you only did it for the publicity. The fans are not the problem. The music industry is the problem.

Seek out and find the Australian version of this CD -
RAJON - RMGR0107 - it has 21 selections in his tribute to jim Reeves. The 'copy protected' version only has 15. You can't have it both ways.

Just say no to so-called copy protected Cd's - we have a right to do whatever we please for our own use with the music we purchase. And quit trying to rip us off with your outrageous prices.

Overall - this is a great album to listen to as are all of Charley's albums. One could only wish he'd do more of these types - such as the tunes he's done by Brook Benton in concert - Think Twice is a great tune he's done onstage. REcord those kinds of tunes...

Excellent recording, but I CAN'T LISTEN TO IT ON MY $2500 CAR STEREO! The copy protection stops it from playing on high-end digital CD-players, because they use the same methods of data access as computer CDROMs (for skip protection and error correction), so the CD dosen't play at all. Which makes it useless to me: I'm going to return it and write an angry letter.

Interesting to read the reports of incompatibility with this CD. From what I can see it has problems on the following popular home systems: Onkyo DV-M301, DV-C600, DV-C601, DV-C501 Sony DVP-C660, DVPCX870D, DVP-NC600B, DVP-CX860 Denon DVM-4800, DVM-3700, DVM-1800 Hitachi C605 Toshiba SD6200, SD9200, SD3205, SD2200, SD2150 Basically, anything beyond your standard CD player is a problem. If you listen to music on your computer or your home theate, use a new jukebox or carousel type player, have a player that supports DVD or CD-R playback, or a car stereo with a CD-ROM mechanism, you may be in trouble. If your CD player is an older unit and you don't plan to upgrade to new technology then you should be OK. For people with expensive home theatre systems this isn't an option... Your best bet is to take the CD to a retailer to check the compatibility with your current system and any future systems you might want to buy. Or buy the overseas version of this CD which doesn't have this problem.

What is the point of releasing a CD that so many people can't listen to? I give up with this one...I couldn't make it work.

I am a huge fan of both Charley Pride and Jim Reeves. Charley is probably the only one who can do justice to Jim reeves and he does do a terrific job on this CD. However I was disappointed to find it copy protected.

Copy protection? OK, so I could swallow the insult of the producers of this CD assuming that I am a thief if I could listen to the music. But no - it won't play in any computer, so listening at work is out. Give this CD a very, very wide berth.

Purchased this CD only to find out it won't play in any of my players. Can't copy it because of their stupid protection system.
Who has the time to call in and answer questions, just to be allowed to make a inferor mp3 copy after paying full price for a disk that is useless. Please require that these CD be advertised and promoted as being disks that are allmost useless!

The copy protection on this cd totally ruins the value of the cd. I cannot play this on my car cd stereo, my home or work computer, and my portable cd player. Don't waste your time or money on this cd with these outrageous protection schemes. Instead of making things easy for those who have bought albums, the industry only penalizes the hands that feed it.