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.
that's the impact of brat for ya'
the effect at the end is what sells that song to me even though i also felt the album was a bit underwhelming