🎵…done dirt cheap!🎵

@onfy I've learned more about it than I ever thought I'd know. Sounds like it might not have required money, but may have required a license from Sony. So, it sounds like Sony and Columbia discs are most likely to offer CD-Text.

I wasn't paying much attention to the publisher, but I don't remember seeing many of those albums in my collection. Maybe Sony and I have very different tastes in music.

@onfy I will definitely have to try them all. I went through my entire collection, and not a single one said CD-Text on the disc or inserts.

(I did find a couple enhanced ones to test ripping that properly, though.)

@onfy Is there an easy way to identify most CD-Text discs? Do they have the "TEXT" logo on yours?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-Text

@onfy @baronvonjace I'll have to give a few things an experiment. I should be able to test several approaches. I might need to figure out how to tell if I have the subcode data in any given step first.

@misty I've got a Windows laptop I can try next, just nice to see a familiar face.

@misty I figured I'd try the redumper first. I think my firmware-modded LG Blu-ray drive (WH16NS40 on v1.03) from a few years ago is capable of redumper use, though I don't think I see that combination officially supported. Unfortunately, I tried redumper first on macOS and immediately hit a launch error with libc++. Seems like some other random internet person already filed an issue, though: https://github.com/superg/redumper/issues/107. :)

@misty Oh, those are the ones…thank you so much!! Glad my brain wasn't totally off, even if it was missing enough context to find things.

I'll give those a review and see what I can do. (Any my old Sega CD-bundled CD+G discs were also ones I was thinking about re-ripping properly.)

@misty I feel like you may have shared something on properly archiving complex discs, but I can't seem to find the posts on here now. Any chance you remember how best to handle things?

Anyone have a guide for properly archiving CDs when there are potentially multiple partitions/volumes/etc.? Also if there are any sort of commands to run to validate a disc has multiple data types to worry about from a single machine?

For example, game discs with both Mac and Windows versions (and possibly audio soundtracks), or those fun late-'90s audio CDs with data or interactive multimedia stuff. I've previously tried to rip all the different images, but that feels wrong.

Someone discovered an easter egg in the ROM of the very first computer I bought for myself, the Power Macintosh G3.

https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/06/finding-a-27-year-old-easter-egg-in-the-power-mac-g3-rom/

(Some day I will replace my beloved desktop beige G3. It served me so well.)

I'm tempted to try to learn more about the process from script to closed captioning to try to identify when an HTML encoding could have been introduced…

#ClosedCaption #ironheart