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From: danb@tesla.UUCP (Dan Blumenthal)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: CD length
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 02:46:43 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct  4 02:46:43 1985
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In article <342@ihdev.UUCP> pdg@ihdev.UUCP (55224-P. D. Guthrie) writes:
>>There is no reason (as far as I know) why a full double album can't be put
>>on a single CD. My understanding is that the full capacity of a CD (one sided)
>>is 4 or 5 hours. That's considering, of course, that it is used to absolute
>>full capacity. So the POLAND album on CD is probably complete, even though it
>>is only a on a single disc.
>>
>>
>>				      Barth Richards
>>				      Tellabs, Inc.
>>				      Lisle, IL
>
>Wrongo! A CD can only be about seventy-five minutes (I believe), and the
>exact time was set by Sony because they wanted to be able to put all of
>Beethoven's ninth (or was it the fifth?) on one CD. 
>
>Here's to good ol' Ludwig Van!
>
>					Pau  Guthrie



An example of a cut double album put onto CD is Prince's 1999
which has a note (in small print) on the back, thatin order to fit
the album on 1 CD, the song DMSR is not on it. Although I'm not a
Prince fan, I think that was a rather stupid choice, since it was
one of the songs that got airplay and (I think) was in a movie soundtrack.

In case people are interested, I think there is something called the
Compact Disk Group. The local phone is (212) 355-0011 but I think there
is also an 800 number. Call information to find it. They're sending me
a CD catalog, and also have people to answer questions on the industry,
although it didn't seem standard practice to put them on the phone.
This person said that EMI was planning a CD plant for mid-86 but also
wasn't willing to say that CD prices would come down that much.

BTW, I got this phone number from the net, but when I asked if anyone
else had called and mentioned USENET, they said no. 

Enjoy.

Dan


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