There were also versions that did a whole side with a 2nd spiral so you randomly get one or the other every play. There's a 2nd spiral alongside the main one that you have to drop the needle into manually. You have to notice that a track appears twice the width for how long it is. My favorite kind of hidden track is still putting a locked groove in the middle of an album side on vinyl. I just tested it with the 'Weedstock Volume 1' CD. This came about because of a bug in one of the early CD burning apps! They inadvertently let you edit the (what was supposed to be standard and required) 2 sec pregap before the first track and put audio there. And only a few hardware CD players had the ability to rewind into it. 'Real' as in it didn't just obviously show up on the display as another track index. This was the 'real' hidden CD track trick for a while. Disc Pregap is the portion of silence or hidden audio located before track one and in addition to the standard 2 second pause. The hidden track will be part of the first track. Looks like it's been a stock feature for a good long while now though. Just make sure to select the option to include pregap. The CD ripper in XLD (X Lossless Decoder) will rip that 'hidden' 1st pregap track. This saved just the hidden track as one FLAC.

Many applications lose vital information upon conversion. Lossless disc image must be lossless not only in preserving contents of the audio tracks, but also in preserving gaps and CUE sheet contents. The goal is to make sure the album image is preserved accurately. I opened the WAV in Audacity, dragged to select just the hidden track area, copied and pasted it into a new Audacity project, then output it as a FLAC. CUETools is a tool for lossless audio / CUE sheet format conversion. It did its thing, ripping the entire album to one WAV (even though I only selected the first track).ħ. Then under the Action menu, I selected Copy Image and Create CUE Sheet, then selected Uncompressed, then selected where I wanted the WAV saved to.Ħ. I loaded a CD into my BD drive, clicked Action, selected Detect Gaps and that placed a tick/check mark next to Append Gaps to Previous Track (default).ĥ. I configured to output FLAC but it seemed to default to WAV - not a biggie as I ultimately converted to FLAC with Audacity.Ĥ. I installed the one with the English flag, followed the set-up wizard and at the end selected the Expert level to allow all functionality.ģ. Click to expand.OK, here's what I've just done:ġ.

Cue splitter include pregap audio