It’s album named Virgin from Lorde. Not quite my taste of music, but the disc itself is pretty interesting.
Though it does have issues. Since the reflective layer is very thin, a lot of light passes through.

Even beaming through the lid:

Here’s a blog post about it on Hackaday, also showing the lower signal amplitude compared to regular CD.
For me, so far it worked in 2 out of 4 CD players/drives. And I didn’t even try with those that can’t read CD-RW, as those can probably be crossed off right away.

Anyway, what happens when it’s upside-down? Obviously, “doesn’t work” is the answer. But at least we can see the lens dance a bit, trying to read the disc:

If you’re worried about data consumption, this video is less than 300KB in size thanks to AV1. Although it took 7 minutes to encode…

And something funny to add.
I ripped it once, there was weird noise, so I tried it again. I played random track, “David”, and skipped through it. It sounded corrupted. So I tried playing it directly using VLC. Still the same. Thinking it was the drive, I tried my Discman. Same issue.
Is the disc bad?
But, after finally getting the track from the internet, I found it just sounds like that.

  • UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    I don’t know whether it is really all, but I can confirm that if you hold them in front of a strong light source, you can see it shine through many