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Every audio CD has a list of tracks with their respective start times, so you can jump to specific songs. The first song also specifies a start time, which does
by exitb 4y ago
Every audio CD has a list of tracks with their respective start times, so you can jump to specific songs. The first song also specifies a start time, which does not have to be zero. If it isn’t, the player will skip some of the audio, but you can still reverse back into it.
It’s funny how a CD is more like a tape with contiguous content and an index, rather than a file system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_with_tracks_hidden_in_the_pregap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_albums_with_tracks_hid...
- didntreadarticl 4y agoWHAT THE FUCK I bought hundreds of CDs from 1990 through to about 2005, some of them on that list, and I never had a clue about this technique. I knew about hidden tracks at the end after a silent gap - e.g. Nevermind had a hidden track after 10 minutes of silence at the end, was fun to schedule it on a CD jukebox in a bar...
- dirkt 4y agoIt's actually more like an analog record than a tape. It's even layout in a spiral (instead of circles, like for a DVD, or like tracks on a floppy or harddisk).