I was hoping to make archive copies of a bunch of CDs so I could throw out the original physical disks. Harder than I expected. So I'll just settle for lossless ripping. But many rippers can't read hidden tracks and even when they can, many CD drives can't read them.
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according to the redacted wiki, the weapon of choice here is XLD (tmkk.undo.jp/xld/index_e.ht) - I've not used it, but when they approve it it's generally good
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Yeah, I found that. Tried to rip a CD with hidden track. Failed. Looked in forums. Maybe I need to try again with different options. Maybe I need to run it twice. You probably know how it is with old poorly documented tools...
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oh yeah occasionally it's also a drive issue, especially with obscure ways of doing hidden tracks
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Yeah, sone CD drives refuse to read before first track. But old CD players from the 80s have no problem