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- From: ultima@mcl.ucsb.edu (David Rosen)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.audio,alt.folklore.computers
- Subject: Re: Life after CDs
- Message-ID: <ultima.712363459@mcl>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 22:44:19 GMT
- References: <14mdkjINNb4m@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <1992Jul24.195249.4172@coli.uni-sb.de>
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- In <1992Jul24.195249.4172@coli.uni-sb.de> chbl@sbustd.rz.uni-sb.de (Christian Blum) writes:
- >smckinty@sunicnc.France.Sun.COM (Steve McKinty - Sun ICNC) writes:
- >> In article <1992Jul23.041115.20377@bilver.uucp>, bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
- >> There is a story (probably apocryphal, anyone know?) that the 74 minutes
- >> time was chosen because it was just long enough to hold the Sony MD's wife's favourite piece of classical music...
- >Sorry that I don't know about your story, but I do know that I've got a CD
- >with 76 minutes of music on it... and I've seen one with 77 minutes!
-
- I used to think the max was 76 minutes, until I got one that had 79
- minutes! I was thinking it might be just those blank spaces that they
- put in--you know, the countdown in between songs, about 3 seconds
- usually. Maybe if those were removed, it might be less...
-
- --Dave
- ultima@mcl.mcl.ucsb.edu
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