quoted 14 lines charles uzzell-edwards wrote:
> charles uzzell-edwards wrote:
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> > 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 ?
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> The longest stereo CD I have clocks in at about 79' 50". It is a
> compilation of Percy Grainger's music for Piano on the Chandos label.
>
> I read somewhere that the closer a recording company gets to 80 minutes
> the more rejects they have in the manufacture of that particular CD. I
> have a lot of CDs that are around 78 minutes, so it must be a problem
> with those last 2 minutes.
Apparently a lot of recent CD players can easily handle 80 minute CDs due
to improved tracking on the laser pickup. Older CD players are a bit
sloppier and can't handle the tighter spacings on longer CDs and start to
skip and drop out.
Just what I'd heard....
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