Today I found a stupid and useless audio CD on the flea market. I didn't even care what music is on the disc. It is one of the strangely shaped CDs (heart shaped in this case). Never owned such a thing before.
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The red text above the barcode roughly translates to:
Careful: Not suitable for car CD players, CD changers and CD-ROM drives!
In case it doesn't play, rotate CD a bit and try again.
No liability for damages on playing device
Isn't that lovely? A real proof of love! Send your beloved a "" heart shaped CD, which will most likely not work and might even damage his/her CD-player! This will surely increase your chances…
The imbalance of the heart shape is so extreme, that the CD players make noise like drilling into concrete. "Brrrrooooaaaarrrr!"
You know what: I'm the fearless testing Sina, so I inserted it into computer drives anyway. My concern was that a PC drive would spin up like normal after detection and make this thing explode… before I could send a "Set CD Speed 4x" command (lowest speed the drive will accept). It didn't explode, but it sounded scary for sure! This is anything but safe for the drive. I recommend not using such things.
Had to try multiple drives. This thing was way harder to copy than one with "Cactus Data Shield". Great copy protection (albeit also playing protection since many CD players also didn't play it)
(full picture 360KB)
The red text above the barcode roughly translates to:
Careful: Not suitable for car CD players, CD changers and CD-ROM drives!
In case it doesn't play, rotate CD a bit and try again.
No liability for damages on playing device
Isn't that lovely? A real proof of love! Send your beloved a "" heart shaped CD, which will most likely not work and might even damage his/her CD-player! This will surely increase your chances…
The imbalance of the heart shape is so extreme, that the CD players make noise like drilling into concrete. "Brrrrooooaaaarrrr!"
You know what: I'm the fearless testing Sina, so I inserted it into computer drives anyway. My concern was that a PC drive would spin up like normal after detection and make this thing explode… before I could send a "Set CD Speed 4x" command (lowest speed the drive will accept). It didn't explode, but it sounded scary for sure! This is anything but safe for the drive. I recommend not using such things.
Had to try multiple drives. This thing was way harder to copy than one with "Cactus Data Shield". Great copy protection (albeit also playing protection since many CD players also didn't play it)