How To Rip "Hidden" cd

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Does anybody know if/how I can rip pre Track 1 "hidden" songs from a cd? I use windows XP and none of the players/rippers I have cant even play / access the track as far as I can tell. I've tried Windows Media Player, iTunes, Easy CD-DA Extractor, Nero.

― tito, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

I don't even know how they program these things to do that. The best that I could do is record the song in real time into Pro Tools or something.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 17:47 (twenty years ago)

if you want to rip it without recording it live you may need to alter the hardware drivers to ignore the disc's table of contents, or at least so that you can set the read point manually.

― lf (lfam), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:05 (twenty years ago)

fucking hidden tracks....

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:09 (twenty years ago)

http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/

― StanM (StanM), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:12 (twenty years ago)

ExactAudioCopy is really good for odd sorts of things like this.

However, the particular thing you are trying to do is going to depend on your cd drive as well. Most drives don't support extracting into the negative time that is needed to capture these tracks. (I speak from having tried this on numerous drives.)

hydrogenaudio forums can probably recommend some nice drives that would do the trick

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Haha, on the Plunderphonics two-disc set he actually talks about how nice it is that his weird sequencing tricks make it nigh-impossible to rip a Plunderphonics CD to MP3 in anything close to its original form.

― Eppy (Eppy), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:41 (twenty years ago)

That set is whack anyway, because the second disc start with track 23 or something. Throws a lot of cdplayers and computers off.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 19:04 (twenty years ago)

Exact Audio Copy and Feurio can do it on separate tracks. Nero can also do it but only if you copy the whole disc (through a disc image).

A number of drives are not able to write these "hidden" tracks (ie, audio in the pregap of track 1), but I haven't heard of any drive unable to *read* them.

― Siegbran (eofor), Wednesday, 25 January 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

IS IT FUCKING WORTH IT YOU SPOD?

― Just Sayin' (noodle vague), Thursday, 26 January 2006 02:00 (twenty years ago)

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How To Rip "Hidden" cd - tracks?