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Comment by Lammy

1 day ago

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#...