When you can tell he's hiding something

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nanonoise@reddit

That track just wanted to let you know it was "All By Myself..."

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Dustteas@reddit

Maybe it's a hidden track at the end of the cd? I don't know I'm confused too.

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I remember when bands used to do hidden tracks! Worked better on cassette though, because it was kind of a dead giveaway on CD when the last listed song finished but then the disc just kept playing in silence instead of just stopping or going back to the first track.

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JasonZep@reddit

And we also can’t tell if it’s a cd-r or commercial disc (at least I can’t).

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Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit

You kind of can though. Burned CDs don't look like that underneath. And they don't really separate the tracks out like this one. Yeah, there's that one band near the edge, but if you look closer you'll see thinner bands throughout the disc - that's gaps between tracks. I'd wager this is a purchased album, rather than a burned disc or a software disc. Possibly a hidden track, but also possibly CD-ROM material, which they used to occasionally include on some music CDs for "bonus material".

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GenghisConnieChung@reddit

Fun fact, as a vinyl record gets closer to the center high frequency reproduction decreases, so bands used to arrange their albums with the brighter songs early on a side and the darker ones later and closer to the center.

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tlivingd@reddit

Interesting. It also makes sense as 45’s are known to sound better. So it makes up for the linear velocity being closer to the outside of an LP

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Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit

45s also sound better because you can spread a single song (or even 2 songs) out over a larger piece of vinyl, allowing for wider grooves that give more space for more detail and depth. With a full album, you're sometimes putting up to 7 songs on a single side, which limits how high the quality can be.

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JasonZep@reddit

Also I searched the number on the inside (06475-01) and it came up with David Gray White Ladder, although that could just be a coincidence.

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Amoreke85@reddit

I love David. He just released a new album!

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Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit

You were right.

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MichaelJAwesome@reddit (OP)

In the 2000s a lot of music CDs would have a hidden multimedia track that would work when you put it in a CD-ROM drive.

You can tell this has one because of the gap toward the edge

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GreenPhilosophy8482@reddit

And rumor has it if you play some of them backwards it has another rumor in it .

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TheyLiveWeReddit@reddit

Are there any rumors about playing Rumours by Fleetwood Mac?

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realoctopod@reddit

Treble Charger's Self=Title, has this had iirc some video and pictures of the band but also a few other smaller Canadian groups.

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drolgnir@reddit

This and DRM junk.

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Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit

Yep, and you can see very thin gaps between tracks throughout the rest of the disc.

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bfume@reddit

The difference in the diffraction pattern is due to a few minutes of silence towards the end of the CD. Usually signifies the existence of a hidden track that appears after the silence.

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Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit

Not that thick. And the data band after the gap is pure data, no track gaps. A music track that thick near the edge of the disc would have to be super long.

OP replied elsewhere that it's a music+bonus footage CD.

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Emergency_Process622@reddit

Only a small part of the disc seems to be used? Maybe hiding porn or nude pics on random burned disc I dunno. Seems like insecure gf bait.

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cousinfrombostonn@reddit

I legit thought this was because the disc was upside down to hide the title, like it was porn or something.

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TappyMauvendaise@reddit

CDs have always been like this. They fit 80 minutes of music, but if as album is only 55 minutes long then there will have that outer gap.

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Clear_Tangerine5110@reddit

There's data on either side of this gap though. I'm betting it's a music CD with CD-ROM bonus material included.

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MichaelJAwesome@reddit (OP)

Bingo. This is the one

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