On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 14:26:27 -0800 (PST), David Mcpherson
<generentropy@yahoo.com> wrote:
quoted 11 lines How interesting:
> How interesting:
>
> encoding the album with a new technology called Audio
> Layering. Basically the foils in the cd reveal new
> audio only when the cd is played in its entirety over
> time. Similar to when you win a video game and receive
> keys to hidden levels. So this is a neat feature that
> you will not get if you have a burnt copy.
>
> Does anyone have that "decoder" that you could get at
> the album release?
sounds like BS to me,
first of all if a foil is what I think it is (not a native english
speaker) then that's the first piece of BS, since a CD doesn't have
foils or grooves,
the data is encoded in little holes or dots burned into the CD's plastic surface
This technique would imply that somehow extra data gets added to the
CD "on the fly" as it's being played, which would mean that CD is a
neato piece of nanotechnology. Or this would mean some sort of residue
sound would have to remain or be build up in the CD players memory as
it plays the tracks and as far as I know a CD player simply doesn't
have this kind of memory.
Car cd-players have a miminal buffer to avoid skipping, but I doubt
any CD player would have enough memory on board to keep track of
hidden encoded signatures over the length of a full CD or even several
minutes.
The reference to video games makes no sense, that's comparing a dead
piece of plastic with software, and with software, anything can be
done.
But it's a good stunt to give the CD some extra attention though.
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