Hidden tracks were pointless with the advent of compact discs. Arguably, in any medium, it was trivially evident that there might still be content remaining on

Hidden tracks were pointless with the advent of compact discs. Arguably, in any medium, it was trivially evident that there might still be content remaining on a record or a cassette based on eyeballing the position of the needle, or the remaining thickness of the tape spool, but you still had to carefully scan for audible audio. With CDs, skipping to specific times, while monitoring the audio was fast, accurate and reliable. Now, with digital audio files, clipping hidden tracks out of long durations of silence is so easy, it's not really worth the effort to concatenate two songs adjoined by a period of fixed silence. Instead of providing an Easter egg of beloved content, in an otherwise left-over section of an audio format's recording medium, it's mostly just annoying and disruptive to what might've been an otherwise enjoyably seamless and regular member of many playlists.