A while back, Steep Haywire did us a great service by dumping a handful of his rare discs. Additionally he provided a large batch of photos of his collection which serve as excellent documentation.
The below collection of discs is largely undumped.
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Thanks to Steep Haywire for sharing these photos of his collection. They are likely the final batch of pics documenting his amazing collection we are to see.
At some point not too-too long ago comparatively to the history of the universe, I stumbled upon an ambiguously titled CD format "AudioVision CD" ("AVCD"). If you were to guess that AudioVision CD format was just branding for "Enhanced CD", "CD Plus", yadda yadda then you'd be wrong.
AudioVision CD (AVCD) format, much like CD-i Ready stores data in the Track 01 pregap (IsoBuster will display this as "Track 00"). Also like CD-i Ready, as a result of the data portion of Track 01 being glued to the Redbook Audio portion of Track 01, the data portion is scrambled upon dumping (as Redbook Audio shouldn't be descrambled). This quirk makes both types of discs annoying to deal with as dumped data.
One potential solution would be to split Track 01 at the Pregap, descramble the first part of the track (the data), and push the rest of the track (the Redbook Audio portion) to Track 02, then make Track 02 into Track 03, and so on so there would be one extra Track declared in the cue (with an extra .bin to match).
It's probably no surprise to hear that Philips developed the AudioVision CD format. A press release announces two early releases of the format ("worm" by 2 Minutes Hate and a self-titled release by Techno Squid Eats Parliament - both released in 1994).
Two record labels which seemed to champion the format (releasing multiple titles employing the technology) are Ardent Records and Christian label Forefront. Forefront liked the format so much that they erroneously included the AudioVision CD logo up until at least the 1998 release of Big Tent Revival's "Amplifier" album, which was actually an Enhanced Music CD (Blue book / multisession).
Discogs.com recognizes the format, and you can see all the discs which are currently logged as AVCD with their format filter. However, proceed with caution as "AVCD" seems to be a buzzword in Asia that refers to music CDs which come packed with VCDs as "AVCD" editions - and most of the discogs entries for AVCD are not AVCD format at all. Look for the "AudioVision CD" logo on the artwork, and the titles should be released in the mid 1990s.