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Re:How CD Pregaps Gained Their Hidden Track Superpowers by banish-m4 on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @02:34AM (#40924262)
Why? You can extract raw data and raw subchannel data directly from a CD/DVD drive. This isn't the case with how floppy drives work.
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Re:How CD Pregaps Gained Their Hidden Track Superpowers by ssl-3 on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @05:32AM (#40925170)
The "why" was covered in a parent comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40923030
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Re:How CD Pregaps Gained Their Hidden Track Superpowers by banish-m4 on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @06:12AM (#40925412)
I can read, thanks. There is no benefit to it. If the desire were to look at them out of curiosity, a microscope would do.
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