Talk:Trapt (album)

Digital download from their site
Is it worth noting that when this album came out it was available for puchase on their site for about 8 usd? It came in a zip file as 192 kbps mp3 files, and they also mailed you a signed LP cover sized poster. 68.124.79.138 (talk) 21:31, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

This is correct. Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20030210115542/www.trapt.com/downloadalbum/ I feel that it should be mentioned because in 2002 I don't think many artists were doing this. I purchased the digital download and still have my signed poster (though with some tape around the edges). I can provide a picture if it would be article-relevant. Ravalytic (talk) 01:06, 28 February 2011 (UTC)


 * I would agree that this should be mentioned. To offer their album for sale and immediate download online is particularly notable. This was only two years after Metallica made a very high-profile fuss blaming the internet for a drop in sales, and germinating a very negative view of the internet in record labels, which persists even today. -Crimson Bleeding Souls (talk) 01:44, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Track 11 section
Can someone confirm whether the instrumental part at the end of "New Beginning" is actually unable to be heard with a CD player? I'm not aware of a method of hiding only part of a song so that it can only be played on a computer. I know it was an enhanced CD with a music video or something, but to actually make it append some data file to the end of the song in such a way that the player indicates it to be continuous track? That sounds like computer fiction to me. It would have to manipulate the datastream in RAM since it can't write to the CD itself. Generally, if you're going to put data-altering software on your audio CD, it's to obscure or scramble data, not reveal it. The only explanation I can think of for something like this happening is that someone's CD got scratched in just the right spot so that an old CD player might get thrown off so badly when it reaches the scratch that it resets, but a more stable/powerful computer drive is able to keep reading. -Crimson Bleeding Souls (talk) 01:44, 8 June 2013 (UTC)