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:
quoted 14 lines I seem to remember hearing what might've been an urban legend about how>
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> 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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