They are nifty in principle, but there are too many players they can't
be put in (including my computer!) Since I tend to rip all of my CDs to
MP3s and listen to them that way, it's kind of an inconvenience. Ditto
with the funny-shaped CDs you sometimes see.
On Nov 7, 2005, at 3:06 PM, nat hawks wrote:
quoted 74 lines i love 3" CDRs... they are so cute! and for short releases they
> i love 3" CDRs... they are so cute! and for short releases they
> just... look right.
>
> but, are these obscured? now that new computers they cannot be put
> into (yoda-speak, beaotch!)
>
> seriously though, do listers NOT LIKE 3"ers? i, like, need to know.
>
> nat
> http://www.littlefurythings.net
>
>
>> From: David Hodgson <playing.by.ear@mindspring.com>
>> To: idm@hyperreal.org
>> Subject: Re: [idm] homie
>> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 15:34:00 -0700
>>
>> actually it was Beethoven's 9th Symphony
>> ...http://www.snopes.com/music/media/cdlength.htm ...david / pbe
>>
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>>
>>
>> At 16:15 07/11/2005 -0600, incredible weirdo wrote:
>>> 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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