fluid writes:
quoted 2 lines Hmmm....my not-very-vast CD knowledge thought that you could only get 72>Hmmm....my not-very-vast CD knowledge thought that you could only get 72
>mins or so on a single disc.
absolutely incorrect. the actual physical maximum is around 82
minutes. however, there are many cheap players out there that can't
track well past minute 74, so there seems to be an unofficial limit of
about 74 minutes. earlier in the history of CDs, most record
companies limited themselves to 70 minutes, which led to a whole spate
of reissues later on when they realized that 74 was fine. (XTC's
English Settlement was issued in a 65-minute version, missing two
tracks. They corrected it later and issued the full album which still
fit fine on a single CD, at around 75 minutes. Ditto, I think, for
Prince's 1999.)
if you want to make a CD that's longer than 74 minutes, the price will
increase quite a bit because the failure rate is a lot higher. also
they have to get special tapes for the Sony 1630 stage - apparently
they're normally only 74 minutes long or something like that!
Jon Drukman jdrukman%dlsun87@oracle.com
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