>I must confess that my favorite piece of imagery in that section is borrowed,
>or at least owes a heavy debt of inspiration, to an Internet document whose
>precise provenance I cannot now recall. I think it was a Sega Saturn FAQ. One
>of the questions was, "How can I rip the music from my games to MP3?", or some
>such. The answer was that it's usually pretty simple - most Saturn games' music
>was standard CD audio on the disc, playable in any CD player. However, the
>document warned, some old CD players aren't smart enough not to play the data
>track, which can cause damage to playback equipment and listeners' hearing.
>"If you play the disc and you hear something that sounds like a jumbo jet >playing the trombone," it said, "that's the data track."

Checked and confirmed. Damn that's painful. I pity those that listened to it for half a hour.

Matrix Dragon