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- From: joltes@husc10.harvard.edu (Richard Joltes)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: CD Legends
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.121353.18868@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 17:13:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec25.122232.21686@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec26.201931.21261@netcom.com>
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- jamesh@netcom.com (James Hightower) writes:
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- >I understand that the Boston "Third stage" gives a countdown on your
- >cd players display during the intro.
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- There are several CDs in my collection that do this on certain tracks. I
- think it's related to song length and how the tracks are arranged on the disc.
- The "countdown" should have a minus sign in front of it, indicating that you're
- n seconds *before* the beginning of the next track.
-
- The phenomenon is not unique to the Boston CD (which I have).
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