Playing track "0" on a CD

[DaHaq]

I have a certain CD with a "secret" track on it that is only playable by rewinding past the beginning of the first track for around five minutes into negative numbers. I used to have a little Aiwa minisystem that would accomplish this just fine, but my current dvd player won't rewind past the "00:00" mark. I tried to play it on my computer, but winamp and windows media player won't do it either. Can anyone recommend software that might be able to do this? Thanks

[Whatever6750]

Just look in the cd and find the track?

Old post buy w/e.

[musicinmybrain]

So, it's a bit of an old post, but I thought it needed an answer.

If you have Windows, somebody on Ask Metafilter has had luck with Exact Audio Copy: http://ask.metafilter.com/mefi/14471. He says "I just tried this out on a CD that has this, Lamb's Fear of Fours. I tried using Exact Audio Copy. It has a method of ripping called "Copy Selected Tracks Index-Based" which will rip the track and pre-gaps separately. This is somewhat worthless for the normal tracks on the CD, but the first file you get out of it *should* be the hidden track. I just tried using two drives: one gave me a WAV file of silence, and one locked up the program. Give it a try, though -- you may be lucky."

Now, if you have access to a Linux system, then it's easy. Just use cdparanoia:


cdparanoia -w [0]

[Slosh]

I have a certain CD with a "secret" track on it that is only playable by rewinding past the beginning of the first track for around five minutes into negative numbers.
Would that happen to be Super Furry Animals' Guerrilla? If so the song is called "The Citizen's Band" (if you didn't already know) and may be the best track on the album. I never tried to rip it on my PC but my CD player does let me cue it up and I put it on a CD-RW via my old stand-alone CD recorder and then ripped a .wav from there.

[DaHaq]

Thanks for the replies to this old post, guys. I'll have to try that program, musicinmybrain. As for Linux, I don't use it but have many friends who do, i'll have to ask them about that. Slosh, the CD in question is actually "The X-Files: Songs in the Key of X", and the hidden track is by Nick Cave and the Dirty Three, although i'm not sure what the song is called.