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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’m not from a different millennium. I am the millennium.
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
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?”
Wipeout 3 had an awesome soundtrack. I’ve probably listened to it more than I’ve played it.
Not all of them, only if it had Redbook audio.
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.
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 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).
I recently discovered Nicotine+. My iPod mini has never been happier.
Try PowerAmp on Android.
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
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…
Rilo Kiley’s Salute My Shorts!
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!
You’re personally responsible for…
The entire strip…to be washed away…And before that there were records with secret spirals.
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.
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.
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
I had Monty Python’s ‘Matching Tie And Hankerchief’ which had two side As.
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.
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.
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.
I did a similar thing when I burned DVDs of Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Assy McGee for my friends and inserted clips of midget porn.
That’s a lot more involved than what I ever did. I only put an Enya track inside of some totally-not-Enya song to confuse my friends, but only if you seeked the track.
Good old endless, nameless
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
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CDs? They used to do it on tapes too.
