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Sometimes CDs would have a long piece of silence at the end of the last song and then another song on the same track.

Other CDs really experimented with the shuffle feature. They Might Be Giants’ Apollo 18 had a bunch of very short tracks that would usually play between songs when shuffle was used.



I remember getting surprised by one of those. I was at a friend's house and forgot to turn off the CD at the end.

It was funny at first, but when every other CD I bought had one, it became tacky.


I had that CD and remember the short tracks but never thought of playing it on shuffle that way.

I think it was nine inch nails' Broken EP that had the hidden tracks on 98/99 rather than after a long silence, but I could be wrong.


Broken was first released as a 2-disc set. It was still in a many-fold Digipak case, but also included was a 3" mini-CD that had Suck and Physical (You're So).

The regular-sized CD looked about identical to the 99-track version, but had only 6 tracks.

(It was expensive to do this, and was never intended for long-term production. Later versions were generally as you describe.)


I think it tells you in the liner notes that you should use the shuffle button.

My copy in the UK at the time didn’t have the individual tracks. Just one track.




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