[paranoia] what's with track 0?

[Benjamin Elijah Griffin]

Why do some discs show up with a track 00 during 'cdparanoia -B'
rips? I looked at the file and it is a header followed by all
nulls.

Disc: Metallica / Black Album

$ cdparanoia --query 
cdparanoia III release 9.7 (December 13, 1999)
(C) 1999 Monty <monty at xiph.org> and Xiphophorus

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<p><p>Table of contents (audio tracks only):
track        length               begin        copy pre ch
===========================================================
  1.    24868 [05:31.43]       32 [00:00.32]    no   no  2
  2.    24342 [05:24.42]    24900 [05:32.00]    no   no  2
  3.    17080 [03:47.55]    49242 [10:56.42]    no   no  2
  4.    29035 [06:27.10]    66322 [14:44.22]    no   no  2
  5.    30318 [06:44.18]    95357 [21:11.32]    no   no  2
  6.    18022 [04:00.22]   125675 [27:55.50]    no   no  2
  7.    18330 [04:04.30]   143697 [31:55.72]    no   no  2
  8.    29155 [06:28.55]   162027 [36:00.27]    no   no  2
  9.    19245 [04:16.45]   191182 [42:29.07]    no   no  2
 10.    23140 [05:08.40]   210427 [46:45.52]    no   no  2
 11.    30723 [06:49.48]   233567 [51:54.17]    no   no  2
 12.    17542 [03:53.67]   264290 [58:43.65]    no   no  2
TOTAL  281800 [62:37.25]    (audio only)

$

Is it beacuse of the begin at 32? Why doesn't cdparanoia
use the table of contents instead of insisting on ripping
that initial bit?

(Why did the cd pressing plant not start the disc at 0?)

Benjamin
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