Somehow that seems less fun. Take a thing that was already designed to image data pits on a CD, and use it for exactly that, but in the wrong way. Might as well

Somehow that seems less fun. Take a thing that was already designed to image data pits on a CD, and use it for exactly that, but in the wrong way. Might as well just plug a CD player into a PC and write some code to generate a bitmap image of the CD from the data it contained.