There are instances where releases actually used the format in a novel way that doesn’t work if you put the same album on vinyl or rip the tracks to digital. Firstly I’m thinking of ‘hidden tracks’. While I know these were occasionally done on vinyl, the specific ways they were done on CD was unique to the format. The other feature you sometimes see on CD albums is ‘enhanced CDs’ whereby putting the CD into a computer would get you access to additional multimedia features. Arguably the multimedia stuff is all online these days, but it’s not the same as the CD experience.
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