actually it was Beethoven's 9th Symphony
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http://www.snopes.com/music/media/cdlength.htm ...david / pbe
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At 16:15 07/11/2005 -0600, incredible weirdo wrote:
quoted 24 lines Yes, and it was Beethoven's Fifth, I believe. It's not an urban legend,
>Yes, and it was Beethoven's Fifth, I believe. It's not an urban legend,
>though, it's quite true.
> As for my switching the details of 80 vs. 74 minutes, I used to have
>trouble with CD players playing 74 minute discs, before the 80 minute CDR's
>came out. I had believed that because burned CD's had a different technology
>than pressed discs that when 80 minute discs came out they had simply caught
>up to the CD spec. Apparently I was incorrect.
> I.W.
>
> On 11/7/05, John Goelzer <johng@engberganderson.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I seem to remember hearing what might've been an urban legend about how
> > the 74-minute spec was arrived at based on the length of a particular
> > recording of a particular piece of classical music favored by one of the
> > (Philips?) CD engineers. Or did I make that up?
> >
> > JG
> >
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