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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 17 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

"...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.)

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Just FYI millennia is a plural form: one millennium, two millennia. So you're from a different millennium.

[–] tweeks@feddit.nl 2 points 1 hour ago

Maybe he is over a thousand years old, don't you see the wrinkles?

[–] John@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

... and the good old enhanced CDs where you will find some specials if you put them into your PC.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 10 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah. Sony gave me malware one time with one of those. Thanks Sony.

[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Was this a rootkit they came up with bc they were trying to... something? I vaguely remember that...

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[–] stetech@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

Trying to perform DRM? Hell yeah!

[–] rosco385@lemm.ee 17 points 3 hours ago

There was a brief and glorious time when this was the apex of technology and culture. Too early and the album was also available on cassette and it was obvious there was playtime left at the end of the album, too late and the rise of the internet meant the secret wouldn't even make it to the release of the album.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Good old endless, nameless

[–] arken@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

I remember listening to Nevermind for probably the first time while playing computer games. I thought the CD (new technology for me at the time) had broken and started chewing the disc like an old tape

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 15 points 4 hours ago

My favorite thing was burning discs with hidden tracks, especially before track 1. Or inserting a song/sound within a track requiring you to seek to find it.

Too bad for me this was around the time CDs were on their way out, but I hold hope that my old friends from those days might still have those discs.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 17 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

And before that there were records with secret spirals.

[–] arken@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago

And with locked grooves, metal machine music for instance has a loop on the innermost groove on side D so it can be played infinitely. There's also records with only loops made with locked grooves.

One band pressed the sound of a C64 BASIC program onto vinyl that could be recorded onto tape and loaded with the c64 tape deck. All sorts of shenanigans.

[–] UncleArthur@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago

I had Monty Python's 'Matching Tie And Hankerchief' which had two side As.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Whoa, I have a bunch of records and never knew this.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Tools opiate for the masses is double grooved on the b side and Dale Crover of the Melvin's released a Solo album with each track being its own groove

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You know what really grinds my gears?

Region-specific bonus tracks that are literally not available on any streaming service in an official capacity; the only place I can find them are on YouTube - where they could get DMCA’ed at a moment’s notice..

Two tracks off the top of my head like this are:

  1. Don’t Tell Me It’s Over by Blink 182, from Take Off Your Pants & Jacket
  2. Subject to Change by Sum 41, from Chuck
[–] 10001110101@lemm.ee 12 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I recently went back to pirating and transferring music to my phone like it was an iPod, lol. VLC is a good player (and works with Android Auto), and Strawberry is good on Linux for listening and library management. The SoulSeek network has a lot of hard to find stuff in flac (I use the Nicotine+ client).

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)
[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Why would I pay to play my music vs winamp/VLC‽

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

PowerAmp is a music player, not a streaming service.

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

When I looked on play 5 min ago it was a trial and 7.99 to buy. Full version is 8 bux

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

It often goes on sale. Worth the price imo.

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 hours ago

I recently discovered Nicotine+. My iPod mini has never been happier.

[–] 5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org 19 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I have some CDs with a -1 track before the first track. Boy was my 15 year old self delighted when I stumbled upon these sweet extra songs!

[–] peetabix@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago

I think 1977 by Ash has -1 and a -2 tracks as well as a hidden one at the end.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 35 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

hate how streaming just has the last song be 20 minutes of silence and then playing the secret song. for gods sake can we please just shorten that, it fucks with my playlists

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 28 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Some cds were like that. Others had 90 1 second tracks.

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 hours ago

Marilyn Manson's 'Antichrist Superstar' had 99 tracks. That confused the fuck out of me when I first put it in my player.

[–] BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

liars debut album is an odd one, on vinyl the last 2 bars of the last song are on the part of the vinyl that repeats, but on cd they just repeated those 2 bars for the maximum length of a cd and now on streaming that song is like 5 minutes of music and 25 minutes of the same 2 bars

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 9 points 6 hours ago

On Tool's Ænema there's a song on the liner notes called 'Useful Idiot' but it's just a static loop at the end of the A Side of the vinyl, on CDs they put like 25 seconds of static there, which wasn't really noticeable. It's like a reverse secret track.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

Enjoy the silence.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 39 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

I was alone...

I was all by myself...

No one was lookiiiiing...

[–] JoShmoe@ani.social 27 points 7 hours ago

Don’t forget the secret messages you get from playing the whole album backwards at x4 speed.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes videos and games too

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 2 points 1 hour ago

Not CD based but barcode battlers too how did that all fall off in game design.

[–] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 hours ago

Last time I had this was with Tyler's IGOR vinyl I got in 2019 or so that had the extra track "Boyfriend" that wasn't on Spotify, but I think it has since been released on tidal or some other obscure music service by niw.

Quickly became my fav track off the album too.

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 hours ago

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.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago

You're personally responsible for...
The entire strip...to be washed away...

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 6 hours ago

I'm flying.....I'm flying.....I'm flying away