quoted 3 lines I was under the impression that 72.5 seconds was roughly (give or take a
>I was under the impression that 72.5 seconds was roughly (give or take a
>few seconds) the max for a cd, thats why Octopus 2 (plug) is that long :
>could I really have put an extra 8 minutes on a cd ?
As others have said, 74 minutes is the "legal" Red Book maximum, but you
can get just over 80 minutes on a CD by breaking the standards. I own
33 CDs that clock in at 79 minutes or higher, and three of them go over
80. New Order's _(the_rest_of)_New_Order_ is one of them, the other two
are 80s-dance compilations from SPG Records in Canada. And as Lazlo
pointed out, many pressing plants will charge you more for CDs longer
than 74 minutes because their defect rate will be higher (because you
are not adhering strictly to the Red Book standard).
To use IDM-related CDs as examples, The Orb's _Orbvs_Terrarvm_ comes in
at 79:41, Wagon Christ's _Phat_Lab._Nightmare_ at 79:36, Bedouin
Ascent's _Science,_Art_&_Ritual_ at 79:32, Scorn's _Ellipsis_ at 79:06,
Kinesthesia's _Empathy_Box_ at 79:03 (though most of it is silence at
the end, anyone know anything about the extra tracks in there?), and
both CDs of _Trance_Europe_Express_2_ (79:38 and 79:00).
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