- original Quake CDs are of limited supply since new ones aren't being pressed.
- your CD player has to be smart enough to recognize Track 1 as data and skip it or else it will blast your ears with two minutes of loud static before the music starts.
- the audio tracks on the Quake CD were mastered with pre-emphasis and your player has to support applying de-emphasis equalization or else it won't sound right. I did check my copy when writing this comment and the TOC does at least flag `PRE`, so supporting players should do it automatically, but still there are loads of ways this can go wrong because it's a relatively niche CD feature and because most modern software players won't handle it at all:
In this case the CD exists everywhere. Just buy a copy of Quake on CD.
Sure but…
- normies (not derogatory) wouldn't know that.
- original Quake CDs are of limited supply since new ones aren't being pressed.
- your CD player has to be smart enough to recognize Track 1 as data and skip it or else it will blast your ears with two minutes of loud static before the music starts.
- the audio tracks on the Quake CD were mastered with pre-emphasis and your player has to support applying de-emphasis equalization or else it won't sound right. I did check my copy when writing this comment and the TOC does at least flag `PRE`, so supporting players should do it automatically, but still there are loads of ways this can go wrong because it's a relatively niche CD feature and because most modern software players won't handle it at all:
https://www.studio-nibble.com/cd/index.php?title=Pre-emphasi...
https://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Pre-emphasis#...
Fine, get Quake on vinyl then :-)
It's a subscription service! When the vinyl wears out, buy another!
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