About a month before Christmas I played a free sample of The Bible Experience–The Easter Story–for Ethan in the car. He was attentive. It occurred to me that the full set must be available somewhere. I had obtained that sample maybe 15 years ago.

Today, I ordered a new/old copy of the The Bible Experience on CD, a 79-disc set listed as “unopened”. 

It was the same price as a single audio file through the Apple Book Store plus shipping and tax. I read a review that the compressed version sounded tinny and that it was a single enormous file and not fun to navigate. Shuffling through 79 compact discs and trying to rip them into a fluid structure sounded way more appealing to me.

UPDATE: 1/18/25 Got to disc 11 and the last chapter of the disc is unreadable along with the closing theme music. I tried probably a dozen times to extract the file. It is disappointing because the discs were supposed to be never opened. I wonder if it is possible that simply by being shuffled about for 17 years, it could have degraded while never having been used. Regardless, I am hopeful that there is a way to extract that final file… I have tried cleaning already. Next, I will try to get an alternative cd-rom. After that, I could try some sort of repair option…. but that makes me a little nervous. 

UPDATE 2/16/25 I found someone on eBay selling individual replacement discs and bought the single disc for about $6 with shipping.

UPDATE 7/9/25 My original post included links for the two eBay purchases. When I checked back, the first link redirected to an active listing of the same item by another seller and the single replacement disc link was dead. Lesson learned, eBay. I updated the first to Amazon in hopes of preserving future readability/enjoyment and removed the second. Ideally, I would like to find a way to preserve those more niche links. For me, sharing the actual listing was part of the fun of this post.

I also added a link to the Apple Book Store item.

Also, I am considering re-ripping the 79 discs to mp3 files instead of m4a.