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> I remember there being a CD that when ripped would intentionally damage/destroy the speakers with some type of frequency sweep or noise. I don’t remember thi

by SllX 4y ago

> I remember there being a CD that when ripped would intentionally damage/destroy the speakers with some type of frequency sweep or noise. I don’t remember this one. I tried to find it but Google is littered with CD recommendations to “break in” speakers because “break” is a synonym for “destroy”. Do you happen to recall which CD this was?

aliqot 4y ago
There were quite a few actually, most of this was sony's doing. The most destructive was XCP around the time of MediaMax, which used randomness in what tones they produced, which would damage speakers unpredictably. "MediaMax introduces a large amount of random jitter, making the disc sound like it has been badly scratched or damaged; XCP replaces the audio with random noise." Key2Audio was the first tech that comes to mind that did this, originally employed on Celinne Dione's "A New Day Has Come" album. It would cause all types of issues, but one being random audio blips that sounded like when you turn on a bitcrusher and press the overdrive, it's easy to see how this can damage a speaker. https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2017/cmsc818O/papers/lessons-from-sony.pdf https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2017/cmsc818O/papers/less... https://www.xboxaddict.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-10494.html https://www.xboxaddict.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-10494.... https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2127-copy-protected-dion-disk-is-sonys-first/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2127-copy-protected-d... https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/dion-disc-could-bring-pcs-to-a-standstill/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/dion-disc-co...
- SllX 4y ago
  That’s insane. I remember the Sony Rootkit scandal from 2005 and Sony’s reputation started to tank around then but I didn’t know it was the successor to another piss poor attempt to copy protect CDs. TIL. Thanks!

by SllX 4y ago

aliqot 4y ago

There were quite a few actually, most of this was sony's doing. The most destructive was XCP around the time of MediaMax, which used randomness in what tones they produced, which would damage speakers unpredictably. "MediaMax introduces a large amount of random jitter, making the disc sound like it has been badly scratched or damaged; XCP replaces the audio with random noise." Key2Audio was the first tech that comes to mind that did this, originally employed on Celinne Dione's "A New Day Has Come" album. It would cause all types of issues, but one being random audio blips that sounded like when you turn on a bitcrusher and press the overdrive, it's easy to see how this can damage a speaker. https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2017/cmsc818O/papers/lessons-from-sony.pdf https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2017/cmsc818O/papers/less... https://www.xboxaddict.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-10494.html https://www.xboxaddict.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-10494.... https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2127-copy-protected-dion-disk-is-sonys-first/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2127-copy-protected-d... https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/dion-disc-could-bring-pcs-to-a-standstill/ https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/dion-disc-co...

SllX 4y ago
That’s insane. I remember the Sony Rootkit scandal from 2005 and Sony’s reputation started to tank around then but I didn’t know it was the successor to another piss poor attempt to copy protect CDs. TIL. Thanks!