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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

How to burn that? It's reported by file as SIMH tape data, Xfburn/Brasero don't recognize it as valid audio track and data burning provides no image. The software-proposed cdrecord command errors out.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

What's the error? I've played around with this successfully.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

If this is CD-RW try cdrecord blank=fast first if it isn't blank. Just an idea.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Ah wait, this doesn't work with DVD and DVD burners?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Ah, no. It's for CDs only. Specifically Mode 2 used for audio since that gives more control over what is 1 and 0.

Based on a different similar project: https://www.instructables.com/Burning-visible-images-onto-CD-Rs-with-data-beta/

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Welp. Still was an interesting journey.

[-] [email protected] 44 points 2 days ago
[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

For everyone saying "I've seen this before"; yes, yes you have. It was released commercially back when optical disks were... relevant.

Released 23 years ago, discontinued 15 years ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DiscT@2

Pretty sure Technology Connections has a video that mentions it.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

How famous is Lemmy? The linked hackaday post seems to be from 2022, the github page had last activity 3 years ago.

Perhaps hackernews was a middlestep: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44208283

But otherwise it (activity) may as well originate from my recent Lemmy post: https://old.lemmy.sdf.org/post/36007202 (the old subdomain usually works as well as the API, but the native Lemmy frontend on SDF, 502 or long wait)

I've also seen Lemmy being used as a source for something on Linus Tech Tips.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Btw, the technique is called DVD data art.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

The author of the article is on the Fediverse, so it's possible.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Finally, we can write data to a CD ourselves!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Since you’re burning audio data to create the visual image, you can’t also store data, etc.

I mean it looks kind of cool but then other than that what's the point?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I think it could be forked to append images to actual audio tracks, but I am too dumb to do so.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Using old discs for something neat.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Its just neat

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Someone just needs to make a double sided CD-R so we can have data and artwork on it.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Now I'm off to find a CD and a computer with a CD rw drive. Wish me luck!

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I feel like I remember someone doing this like 10 years ago. Can't find a link.

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