Talk:Hidden track/Archive 1

Archive 1

i have a cd that is said to have hidden tracks on it how do i play the hidden tracks?

Have you tried all of the techniques in the 'Methods' section? Otherwise, with no clue of what the CD is, none of us can help you. -- Smjg 13:48, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

If you post the CD to myself at BBC Worldwide, Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane London, W12 0TT I can have a look and perhaps get one of the engineers to decipher it; obviously I won't be able to return it, but I can e-mail you a description of the hidden track. I'll look out for it. -Ashley Pomeroy 22:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

In The offspring's Greatest hits cd, there is another song a minute or two after the end of Can't Get My (Head around you). Should be mentioned here, I think. 216.56.38.130 12:31, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

Only interesting examples should be included

I agree with the guy below who says that only interesting or unique examples should be included in the list. In particular, we don't need a listing of every CD that has a standard silence then extra song type of hidden track, since those are a dime a dozen.

Unless there are objections, I'm going to go cull this list in a few days. -- ToastyKen 04:06, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

There's a List of albums containing a hidden track, if you're going to cull could you move any examples to there perhaps? People obviously care enough to add them into here that they should be kept. Satan's Rubber Duck 16:54, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

"Hidden Track" IS NOT "Bonus Track"

"Bonus track" redirects to this "Hidden track" article. That is wrong in my opinion, as Bonus Tracks are clearly not hidden, for example the traditional Japanese bonus tracks. --Abdull 13:11, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

The list of examples of hidden tracks in the article is getting longer. Which examples should be included in the article and which should only be entered in the List of hidden tracks? I think only notable hidden tracks that have an outstanding - not previously mentioned - characteristic should be listed. Brz7 11:24, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

This description of a hidden track does not fit the bonus track found on many Japanese versions of (metal) albums. Japanese versions of these albums just include one or two extra tracks which are not hidden in any way (they are on the track listing). What I would like to know is why. Why do these Japanese versions with extra tracks exist? - Guest TimV 15:30, 25 September 2005 (GMT+1)

I've heard somewhere that CD's in Japan are so expensive that importing them is actually cheaper. So, they add the bonus tracks for the market's sake.

I agree that the bonus track redirect to this page is inappropriate, and it's not just Japanese releases which recieve bonus tracks, I've seen Australian, South American, and other regions' releases get bonus tracks. I'm going to go ahead and write a stub. Please go ahead and throw in your 2 cents (or a whole dollar if you like) because, to be honest, I don't feel much like spending a great amount of time on it, and I probably don't really know enough about the topic anyway. --Qirex 14:36, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Most of the time the bonus tracks on the foreign versions (bu which I mean non-America and non-Europe) of the album are simply b-sides from singles; the charts in the US especially move so quickly compared to other countries that they have many more singles released, which aren't released in other countries. I'll try and add that into the bonus track article, but it's late so I might not be too literate... Satansrubberduck 04:24, 21 January 2006 (UTC)

"Interleaved Track"

On one of Monty Python's vinyl records, there is a "third side." Is this a noteworthy hidden track?

A passing trend?

Granted, a very long lasting trend, but does it seems like over the last few years much less bands do this, or is it just my musical taste changing?Oreo man 17:08, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Maybe it is a passing trend because it plays havoc with copying CDs to iTunes when the period of silence method is used. The final track then becomes a single track containing the final track, the silence(s) and the hidden track(s). You could end up with a final track that should be 5 minutes long lasting more than half an hour. MnJWalker 14:37, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

JVC CD player from 1987 played Track 0 automatically

Before my JVC CD player from 1987 stopped working 11 years later, it would play Track 0 automatically. None of my other CD players have ever done this and I have just become aware of the "rewind track 1" method.

I don't remember the exact model of my old JVC CD player, but are there any modern CD players that play "Track 0" automatically?

-R

Copying Track 0

Is there a way to copy track 0 using either toastlite or iTunes? Other programmes can be advised.

linkin park ?

Linkin Park uses hidden tracks, particularly in Reanimation (album) - they seem to have done that just to be strange.

You're Pitiful

Because it was Atlantic Records (YOU SUCK!) and not James Blunt himself who objected to You're Pitiful, Weird Al should've put it in his album anyway as a hidden track. He should put a parody of Prince on his next album as a hidden track and see what happens. Scott Gall 07:47, 22 December 2006 (UTC)