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In 2018, I overburn-tested a cheap no-name-brand CD-RW.

Overburning means attempting to burn beyond the disc's apparent maximum capacity at the risk of overshooting the actual limit.

When playing back that audio CD-RW using a very old CD player, towards the outermost edge, the disc rotation which is very slow starts speeding up more and more until it spins faster than at the beginning of the disc.
The audio fades into noise and then the CD player fails finding the track.

I am not sure whether this is the case with all CD-RW's or other disc types such as CD-R's.

Side note: Some older optical drives might have problems burning unknown brands of optical discs such as burning a CD-RW with the wrong laser strength making it appear blank.

In 2018, I overburn-tested a cheap no-name-brand CD-RW. Overburning means attempting to burn beyond the disc's apparent maximum capacity at the risk of overshooting the actual limit. When playing back that audio CD-RW using a very old CD player, towards the outermost edge, the disc rotation which is very slow starts speeding up more and more until it spins faster than at the beginning of the disc. The audio fades into noise and then the CD player fails finding the track. I am not sure whether this is the case with all CD-RW's or other disc types such as CD-R's. Side note: Some older optical drives might have problems burning unknown brands of optical discs such as burning a CD-RW with the wrong laser strength making it appear blank.

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It is possible I saved the file somewhere.

But it is just music increasingly fading into noise that sounds somewhat like rain.

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I am a musician. I just sampled, a couple of days ago, a beer bottle being placed on top of my computer tower, because it made a really cool sound. But I get what you're sayin'.