Modern ways of achieving the "locked final groove" effect
The song "I am the beat" by the band "The Look" is notable because when it was issued as a vinyl single, it was engineered so that the run-out groove, rather than silence, contained the word "Beat!..." which looped until you lifted the stylus.
Is there a way of achieving the same effect using modern music delivery systems? In other words, is there any way of creating an audio file or stream or CD or whatever that can infinitely loop its final second of audio?
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I know on Beck's album Odelay the last track is a loop that always reminded me of the sound of a vinyl record hitting the label over and over ("Riding the label"), but more digital sounding, if you can imagine that.
You can't, as far as i know make an mp3, cd, etc loop the last second infinitely. You can however create a loop and turn that in to a track that takes up the remaining time on the CD, for example. For an Mp3 you can do the same, but the length of course would need to be decided...if I bought an album with an excessively long track like this I probably would delete that track, so keep that in mind.'
EDIT: The Beck track i mention is actually a hidden track at the end called "Computer Rock"...The youtube:
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