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From: samson@h-sc1.UUCP (gregory samson)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Tangerine Dream on CD (a technical bit)
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Date: Fri, 4-Oct-85 12:33:23 EDT
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In article <603@tellab1.UUCP> barth@tellab1.UUCP (Barth Richards) 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...

It was my understanding that the current CD encoding scheme allowed a maximum
of 74 minutes of music to be encoded on a single disc.  For example, this would
be why The Wall's 2 CDs exactly match the album as far as song order goes,
because it would be silly to pack 74 minutes worth of songs on one of the discs
and leave ~10 minutes for the other.

In terms of TD stuff, however, I don't see why they insist on releasing the
CD's with only one album each.  _Rubycon_, for instance, contains only about
34 minutes of music.  Why not combine it with something else?

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G. T. Samson
Commander-In-Chief, Harvard MicroWizards (Ret.)
gts@wjh12.ARPA