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got the ikeda 20-2000 today. the surface of the disc lists tracks 1-99 as 12 seconds each and track 00 as 24 seconds. well, my player plays track 99 as 24 seconds and seems to handle only 99 tracks. what happens if the disc is mastered with over 99 tracks? or does the label simply indicate that i'm supposed to listen to silence for 24 seconds before hitting 'play' ? ---------------------------------------------- D is for Desond thrown out of a sleigh ---------------------------------------------- bruce levenstein bruceLev@mindspring.com ----------------------------------------------

On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, brucelev wrote:

quoted 6 lines got the ikeda 20-2000 today. the surface of the disc lists tracks 1-99 as

> got the ikeda 20-2000 today. the surface of the disc lists tracks 1-99 as > 12 seconds each and > track 00 as 24 seconds. well, my player plays track 99 as 24 seconds and > seems to handle only 99 tracks. what happens if the disc is mastered with > over 99 tracks? or does the label simply indicate that i'm supposed to > listen to silence for 24 seconds before hitting 'play' ?

You can either try cueing the disc back before the first track to see if anything is there ((not) surprised that the Times missed out on this new phenomenon in their feature on hidden tracks this last Sunday- no joke), or just take it as a deliberately ironic home electronics analogue to the Y2K programming oversight. Also want to pitch in my "awww yeah" to the chorus of praise for the Gimmik "Load? Error" e.p., though it does sound an awful lot like post-"Mike and Rich" mu-ziq (cheesy-listening arcadery and lite-step drill 'n bass moves aside, it has an uncanny ability to keep one's attention span dancing as only a denizen of post-Stalling reality warp can). -rob ps- best thing to emerge from the Melissa virus debacle- to build a telephone call tree, look for a 'soccer mom'." -Rob Kolstad, on preparing a rapid countermeasure to aggressively replicating viruses (in a recent SANS bulletin).