Nick wrote:

I've had similar problems with other CD's, but it's quite easy to get
around. The way they 'hide' the CDA tracks from you when you put the
disc into your PC is by sticking them in a second session on the CD.
Because the PC reads the first session and sees a whole load of data,
that's what you get. When you stick the CD into a CD player, it
cannot read the data session, so skips to the second session where
all the (higher quality) CDA tracks are. There are a few tools
(free) that allow you to extract different sessions on a CD to ISO
files, that you can then use NERO (or similar) to burn back to a
standard CD as CD-Audio. The tool I use for this is called ISO
Buster (www.isobuster.com).

Having done that, take the so-called 'CD' back to the shop and ask for a
full refund on the basis that what they've sold you isn't a CD! The more
we let 'them' get away with this, the more copy protection will be added to
CDs. Before long there'll be a Microsoft-style online activation required
before a CD will play in anything other than a consumer CD-audio machine ;-)