although i kinda guessed it, i still went ahead and tried it in my car only to be made to look a fool!

the biggest fear though is that peeps are posting on the message boards that their dvd isn't even playing on dvd players!

It's definately not playing on CD players, it also won't save on to a PC unless you save an DVD not audio. Windows Media doesn't recognise it as a audio at all.
bobbins

not sure how much US imports cost in the UK but the US cd version of FOTGTD has all 3bsides on 1 audio CD. might be a bit pricey but less hassle than having to get a program that records audio off a dvd then burning it on to a cdr. just thought i'd share.

Just got my copy, but it won't play anywhere either. I was hoping the audio portion would play, but such is my luck, it would not. I'm not very pleased with this purchase.

I bought the vinyl single, and I'm having the same problem - it won't play in my cd! Tried it in my car and a player that will play mp3's and DVD's but to no avail. All this technology and I cant even play the bloody thing!

HMV, Virgin and Woolworths in Leeds are very concerned over the amount of refunds that they have had to give out due to the fact that blotches on the CD have made it unplayable for DVD players. There's been quite a lot of "bad batches" sent, a worker at HMV told me.

think for a minute people. a DVD is not a CD.

well i can not play the dvd in my pc dvd player ?????? why not just put them out on a normal cd and i wanted really so much those new extra tracks ... !!!!!!!

Calm down folks, according to Amazon there are THREE versions of the single:

CD1 has FOTGTD/Teenage Dad.../Mexico and all are Audio and can be played on any CD player.

CD2 has FOTGTD and My Life Is A Succession..., again both are Audio.

CD3 is the DVD which CANNOT be played in anything other than a Pal Region2 DVD player.

I just hope all this refunding and faffing about doesn't affect the sales. This could have been a potential Number 1, but all this carry on looks like it could affect it.

The initial post says you can't get the DVD single to play on your CD player. A DVD will not play in a CD player. The formats and the medium are entirely different. Am I missing something here?

You can download several free dvd audio rippers from the internet. They will convert the audio to mp3 files you can then burn onto cd.
Try looking for No1 DVD Audio ripper.

I think putting out two longed for studio tracks on a format which won;t play in a CD player, walkman or car stereo is a massive own goal in terms of sales. A lot of fans will just get US import copies of the single and not bother with the UK DVD single. Consequently, sales will be almost halved, and the single will not do som well in the charts.

A better format would have been:

CD1 - 'My Life Is A Succession...'
CD2 - 'Teenage Dad On His Estate' & 'Mexico'
DVD - With the promo, and a few live clips from the RAH gig, or the MEN gig.

That way the singkle would still be chart-eligible, and everyone would stay happy.

PS - how come so many people assumed that a DVD single _would_ play in a standard CD player? They're completely different formats.

does anyone understand why they felt the need to produce two videos for FOTGTD? - i.e. the one currently on VH1 with shots of the fans, linder etc woven in, and the one on the DVD single which is a straight live performance video...

and does this all mean that there will be a full live video from Manchester to follow?

and they are, of course, splendid.

How annoying that they cannot be played on the commercial version!

I've had exactly the same problem, it won't play at all - if you look around the edges of the CD on all the ones I've seen it is not cleanly mounted. I took mine back to MVC to exchange it and they pulled the lot from sale, felt kind of guilty for destroying a great Moz display but you'd think they would have better quality control.

Here's a great idea! Ensure low chart placings for an excellent song with terrific 'b-sides' by bringing out a single that nobody can play on a regular cd player! Then you can write a song about how people take your records back to the shops for a refund! Ahhh.... Misery!

If you're dumb enough to think a DVD will play as a CD, then you get what you deserve! Are there actually people out there who don't have DVD players?? You realize you can buy one for as cheap as 50 bucks!

I haven't bought the CDs yet (cos I'm working all week and can't get to a record shop) but if i ahve a problem with the CD, I will just download the tracks illegally. I'll have already paid for the CD anyway.

Not knowing the different with various digital media formats...

Says a lot about the nature of old fart Morrissey fans

hehe

Am I the only person who has realised that by releasing a four-track cd single in the US Morrissey has almost guaranteed himself better chart success due to the increased interest from abroad in this single. I already got a four-track promo copy on Ebay a couple of weeks ago but without that I would be emailing some friends in the States to get myself a copy of their version. Maybe not a stupid as we initially thought?

Most of us in the United States can only play Region 1 DVDs. The FOTGTD DVD single is Region 2. This may be why those of us in the States cannot play the DVD.

Are there problems playing it in the UK as well?

i had the same unpleasant experience shoving what turns out to be an entirely dvd format disc in my cd player.

i thought the age of the 2-cd rip-off had passed with the 90s, and all those original-song-plus-seven-desperate-remixes packages.

wrong: sanctuary are relying on moz's rabid fanbase to heave the old boy into the hit parade, and are conscience-free in offering us the privilege of buying the same song twice (which we already know backwards since we all bought the album in the week of release), should we nerdishly wish to hear the other tunes which didn't make the album.

meanwhile (if other posts here are to be believed), the US single has all the new songs on one cd. i don't imagine the label's holding out for a US chart hit...

AND they cruelly expect us 38 year-olds to know a dvd single when we see one! i feel like my mother does when the 'tea' she thought she bought turns out to be tesco finest guavan pepperfrog bark infusion. bah!