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Abusing the standard to put songs in gaps was such a bad idea.

I have no idea how they got a patent for such a thing and, even worse, anyone ever did it on actual commercial discs.

Why? Are easter eggs like this harmful to consumers or something?

It's abusing the standard, which can break compliant implementations.

Especially bad since most Audio CD players are opaque hardware without update-able firmware.

Has this been shown to be actually-problematic in the three decades since Willy Nelson's album contained a song in the pregap of track 1?

of course not.

Yes, there's been a serious issue recently reported. Apparently, it has triggered bureaucrats on the internet who can't acknowledge something innocuous that's never caused any problem for decades.

Link?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40922903

You're right. We should start a letter-writing campaign to President Bush. Maybe it will make the nightly news.

Sent from my Discman

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