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[Craig]

Has anybody got any ideas how to search for hidden / bonus tracks?
I was thinking maybe finding the last tracks on albums and then sorting by length if anyone knows how to find all the last tracks?

I'm wanting to get them in an audio editor to split them into two and remove the silence.

Thanks
Craig

[Frobozz]

Wikipedia has a list of albums that include hidden track(s).  (Well, the list is there now until an editor sees it and deletes items due to lack of citations...)

Wikipedia also has a list of albums that have audio hidden in the pregap for track one.  This is often called HTOA for hidden track one audio.  Extracting HTOA tracks is more difficult to deal with.  It requires a drive that supports it and also requires special software to rip and extract.  EAC can do it along with CUETools if you have a drive that supports it and you make a special effort to extract the HTOA during the ripping process.  To play the HTOA on an audio CD player you need to seek backwards into the audio that is before track one.  Start the first track and hold down the seek button to go backwards.  It really is a clever place to hide audio, perhaps just a bit too clever.  Fortunately there aren't many CDs that use this trick.  I've only got two.

I don't know how or if the ripper in MC handles HTOA.  I haven't experimented.

[Craig]

Thanks Frozbozz,
I was looking at using expressions to do it but those links proved very interesting.

I've found ten HTOA's that I never knew about including two of my very favorite albums.

I've not even started on the normal hidden track list yet.

Craig

[Craig]

I've found and expression that works out the number of tracks on an album so matching that with the track number lets me get the tracks that I want.

Thanks
Craig