You could put a PlayStation disk into a CD player, skip a few tracks, and listen to the songs from the game
“As you can see, this is a PlayStation black disc. Cut #1 contains computer data, so please don’t play it. But you probably won’t listen to me anyway, will you?”
Not all of them, only if it had Redbook audio.
She rode a horse into my head
She won’t discipline the children
And now they’re running wild on the beach
And I don’t care, oh, I don’t care
No, I don’t care hey, hey, heyI tried to think of something deep to say
But my well is dipping dry today
<3
I have 2 CDs with this feature! When they end, I wait seconds or a minute just.
Sometimes videos and games too
Makes me think of Monster Rancher on PSX where the monster generated was based on what disc you put in. You could use literally any disc. Such a cool idea.
I had so much fun experimenting with all the discs in our household with Monster Rancher 4. Thanks for bringing that memory back!
Not CD based but barcode battlers too how did that all fall off in game design.
I have 2 CDs with this feature! When they end, I wait seconds or a minute just.
Just FYI millennia is a plural form: one millennium, two millennia. So you’re from a different millennium.
Those of us that were born before 2000: am I a joke to you?
I’m also in that group, I only meant to write a direct parallel to the title, for comparison :-)
Maybe he is over a thousand years old, don’t you see the wrinkles?
I was there, Gandalf…three thousand years ago…
311 had a secret song before the first track. You had to rewind to hear it. Only time I’m aware of that happening (there’s probably others that I don’t know about).
I was thinking, yeah Rammstein also did something like that. Looked it up and turns out there is a wiki list of all CD’s that did this. Wikipedia
This is my favorite thing I’ve seen on Wikipedia recently. Thanks!
X-Files movie soundtrack had https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=64LNLSpFa-o
I don’t know that I’d call it a song per se, but Brand New did this on The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me. I think it was like a minute of stuff that seamlessly blends right into the start of Sowing Season. I don’t own the CD and I only heard that part once like 15 years ago, so I truly can’t remember what it was. Maybe like a message on an answering machine?
Edit: found it
Action Action also had those seamless transitions. I remember the first track would finish, and then the next track would start at negative time (ex: -00:30) and count to 00:00 (where the track would actually begin) with transition noise and music playing for those negative moments. I miss whole album concepts.
Yep. Seen that. Ripped a CD to put it on my media server, and noticed the last song to be over ten minutes long. Loading it into SOX revealed that there were two songs with loads of silence between them.
I wish Discogs wouldn’t use PayPal so I could still use it (it would appear I got shadow-banned). I only have 4 CDs…
Anyway, I got one with a hidden track which I only noticed visually on Teamwork by DJs@Work. Since there’s a while of silence, the audio part is visibly spaced out on furthermost part of the disc.
I’ll never forget my surprise when I put the Half-Life 1 CD into a player and got the soundtrack.
Oh yeah? Well back in MY day the Dead Kennedys put out this cassette tape and all the music was on one side and the other side was blank and there was a note that said something like… oh what was it now… “Home taping is killing record industry profits! We left this side blank so you can help.” Yep that was really something.
“…and ripping that CD was annoying, because you then had an over long last track with the secret song, and you had to split the tracks manually and come up with tags on your own, or…”
(Seriously, the only reason I listened rarely to the last song in Halo CE soundtrack was because of this.)
The CDs I remember with it would have the secret party track start with like ten minutes of nothing
CDs? They used to do it on tapes too.
… and the good old enhanced CDs where you will find some specials if you put them into your PC.
Yeah. Sony gave me malware one time with one of those. Thanks Sony.
Was this a rootkit they came up with bc they were trying to… something? I vaguely remember that…
Trying to perform DRM? Hell yeah!
Yea it was during their “total war on piracy” era
It basically screwed with your computers CD drive, phoned home, made it self undetectable, all that good stuff
