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by sigjuice 3648 days ago
The Quake CD was some sort of hybrid data/music CD. It was possible to play the soundtrack in a regular CD player.
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This was true of a lot of PC games from that time IIRC.
Yep. Basically the trick was to make one track as data, and the rest as redbook audio.

I seem to recall running into the odd album that was done up in a similar way to bundle images and such for fans.

Found the Wikipedia article on it btw, Mixed Mode CD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed_Mode_CD