During 1996, the RTV Slovenia released a compilation album "The Best of Smak", and the following year, in the spring of 1997, the band had a tour of Slovenia. The success of the tour resulted in the plans for another tour which was canceled due to the problems with the management in Slovenia. After the tour, the band had reduced their live activities, performing mainly free concerts at town squares, including the concert in Kragujevac on which all the former members, with the exception of Miki Petkovski, appeared as guests. In May of the same year, in the Kragujevac Šumadija cinema hall, the band made an experiment with performing an entire concert without audience and the recording of the concert was released on the double live album "Live Without Audience", featuring live versions of twenty two tracks from the band's entire career. A promotional video for the song was recorded for the song "Ljudi nije fer" which received an adequate media coverage. The following year, in 1998, in a book edited by Duško Antonić and Danilo Štrbac "YU 100: Najbolji albumi jugoslovenske rok i pop muzike" ("YU 100: The Best Albums of Yugoslav Rock and Pop Music"), "Crna dama" appeared on the 40th and "Smak" on the 63rd place.