CDs? They used to do it on tapes too.
I have 2 CDs with this feature! When they end, I wait seconds or a minute just.
“…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
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.
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
But thats the song. It’s just not the same without 80 minutes of silence in advance
Some cds were like that. Others had 90 1 second tracks.
Marilyn Manson’s ‘Antichrist Superstar’ had 99 tracks. That confused the fuck out of me when I first put it in my player.
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
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.
Enjoy the silence.
So I wore my wallet on a chain, which was the style at the time.
How do you put apple pay on your pants, grand papa?
Oh we didn’t buy things with apples as you youths like to do these days. Our apples were too big to use as money.
I’m flying…I’m flying…I’m flying away
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!
I think 1977 by Ash has -1 and a -2 tracks as well as a hidden one at the end.
Don’t forget the secret messages you get from playing the whole album backwards at x4 speed.
That’s how I got my favorite lentil soup recipe!
Mamas secret lentil soup recipe: Step 1 - sacrifice a child to the dark lord Satan…
“The music is reversible, but time is not. Turn back, turn back!”
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.
You’re personally responsible for…
The entire strip…to be washed away…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:
- Don’t Tell Me It’s Over by Blink 182, from Take Off Your Pants & Jacket
- Subject to Change by Sum 41, from Chuck
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).
Try PowerAmp on Android.
Why would I pay to play my music vs winamp/VLC‽
PowerAmp is a music player, not a streaming service.
When I looked on play 5 min ago it was a trial and 7.99 to buy. Full version is 8 bux
It often goes on sale. Worth the price imo.
Fair enough, could you tell me why? I’m more than willing to spend money especially if it’s not something you’re being paid to sell…
I use musicolet. Integrates with android auto pretty well so I can control it from the console while driving if I want. And it’s free
I recently discovered Nicotine+. My iPod mini has never been happier.
I believe that Take Off Your Pants and Jacket was released with 6 different secret songs (in the US anyway). Each album came with 2 of the 6, so you had to see if your friends got the other ones on their albums.
It was a good time!
And before that there were records with secret spirals.
Those were kind of annoying because it was essentially luck if the draw which one you got.
Records could also have bits at the end meant to loop as the needle bounced. The Beatles’ Day in the Life has this, which sounds weird in other media.
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.
I had Monty Python’s ‘Matching Tie And Hankerchief’ which had two side As.
Whoa, I have a bunch of records and never knew this.
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
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.
Not CD based but barcode battlers too how did that all fall off in game design.
I had so much fun experimenting with all the discs in our household with Monster Rancher 4. Thanks for bringing that memory back!
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.
