User:Bp/HDCD Curiosities

Strange cases from List of HDCD-encoded Compact Discs.

Weird

Various - For The Masses (1998)

This tribute collection of Depeche Mode covers signals -4.0dB gain adjust throughout the album, but only one one channel.

"Special Mode" discs

• Yngwie Malmsteen - Concerto Suite For Electric Guitar And Orchestra Live (2002)
• HDCD Sampler (1992)

The fakest fake HDCD disc

John Williams - Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005)

This disc has a few HDCD packets added to the start and end of each track, but otherwise is not an HDCD disc. All the packets are NOP.

Very-high error count

Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (2005)

Contains a very high number of packets with errors. Booklet says "CD Mastered ... using the Pacific Microsonic HDCD system"

False Positives

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