(idm) can a CD can hold 80 minutes of music? (fwd)
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charles uzzell-edwards wrote:
quoted 4 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 ?
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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.
Everyone probably knows this but apparently the reason a CD is this
particular length, is that Phillips asked Herbert Von Karajan about this
new medium's length and he said it would be "wunderbar" to have Beethoven's
Choral Symphony on one disk!
Alec McKay