The direct order edition included a fifth disc, an instrumental studio album by The NPG Orchestra titled Kamasutra.

Each of the three CDs contain ten tracks and last fifty minutes, resembling Emancipation's 12-song, sixty-minute disc lengths.

In 2018, NPG Records released Crystal Ball and The Truth digitally on Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, and Apple Music.

[6] In 2021, a special limited vinyl edition of The Truth was released on Record Store Day.

Although videos for "Acknowledge Me", "Interactive" and "18 & Over" were made a few years before this release (and not connected to any albums), they were not used as promotional tools for Crystal Ball.

In 2018, NPG Records released The Truth digitally on Spotify, iTunes, Tidal, and Apple Music.

It was first released on cassette on February 14, 1997, and later in the limited edition Crystal Ball box set as the fifth CD on January 29, 1998, by NPG Records.