I bought Embrya recently and was wondering why the numbering in the booklet doesn't match the tracking on the cd.

The first track is hidden. I haven't played my CD in a long time, but I remember hitting the backwards search button to hear the first track.

The :00 track is BEFORE the first track, as a hidden track. It's called "Gestos". When you hit play for the first track, hold down your << button, to seek/search backwards. IF your CD player does it correctly (some do, some don't), it'll rewind to a -3:00 position (in a negative time frame). You can't just hit your Back button and get to it. You have to scan backwards when track 01 starts. Again, some CD players won't do it, some will. So if it doesn't work, it's just the CD player, not the disk. I'm not sure how to do it on a computer. I hooked a CD player into my computer to record it, when I found it years ago.

Rhapsody, and I think iTunes, has the :00 track.

The :01 track is the first regular song you'd hear by just putting the CD in and playing it. It's a trick he's done for a while.

The tracks on NOW are off too at first. You have to rip tracks 1 and 3 together to get the whole first song. There's also a hidden segment on the last track of NOW's last track.

I think I'm having a blonde moment...lol because it doesn't appear to be hidden on my cd. Track 01 is Gestations: Mythos, but the booklet lists it as track 00. Track 02 is Everwanting: To Want You To Want and is listed as Track 01 in the booklet, so all the tracks are 1 number off.

I did not have to do anything special to hear Gestations: Mythos, which I take is the same as Gestos.

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[Edited 10/6/09 17:12pm]

PurpleCharm said:

Yours is formatted differently then.

exactly

I just looked Embrya up on Amazon and they have Gestation:Mythos and Everwanting: To Want You To Want as one song and the first song.


http://www.amazon.com/Emb...051&sr=1-1

I wonder how many variations of this cd were made.

PurpleCharm said:

When it was ripped for download, the track listing obviously changed to reflect it. You can't import it using iTunes. You'd have to either buy it on iTunes, or record it how I described.

ernestsewell said:

I've ripped "hidden" tracks from CDs using IsoBuster. You just find the hidden track, right-click and export to WAV. Once you have the WAV you can convert it to MP3 using any MP3-creation program.

http://www.isobuster.com/...wnload.php

The basic version of the program will do this. You don't need to pay for the Pro version.

GirlBrother said:

Well if you can do that go ahead. We all have had hidden tracks at the END of a CD. Yes, that's easy. But this track is BEFORE the FIRST track. It's literally in the negative time space. But if you can do it, go ahead. And let us know how ya did it.

BTW, MP3s sound like crap.

ernestsewell said:

Yes, I've done it - with IsoBuster. Just download it and try it out - you've nothing to lose.

ernestsewell said:

Well, don't download them then: http://tinyurl.com/yadsa8a

GirlBrother said:

I don't need it really. I use iTunes to rip any CDs I buy. And I have the hidden track on Maxwell's CD. I recorded it years ago, and actually recently bought it on Rhapsody (I had $10 in free music to download). It was a cleaner copy, so I snagged it for free.