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- From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: CD Legends
- Message-ID: <LPRqwB7w165w@unkaphaed.gbdata.com>
- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 93 08:49:44 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.113751@orion.IntelliCorp.COM>
- Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX
- Lines: 46
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- philo@orion.IntelliCorp.COM (Philip R. Obermarck) writes:
-
- > dt@yenta.alb.nm.us (David B. Thomas) writes:
- >
- > |> I believe that I have one of the few CD's of Gerry Rafferty's
- > |> "City To City" album that has the songs recorded at the correct speed.
- > |> [...]
- > |> Whenever I hear "Baker Street" and "Right Down The Line" on the radio,
- > |> they are a half step sharp, as compared to my CD. When I have called
- > |> the radio stations, they swear they are not messing with the pitch
- > |> control on the CD player and I believe them because I listen to these
- > |> stations all the time and everything else is at the correct speed.
- > |> [...]
- >
- > |> David "..." Thomas
- >
- > My guess is that the songs in question were just a hair too long, so in
- > order to ensure radio play, the record company pressed some albums with
- > a slightly faster speed. Most people would never notice.
- >
- > Many radio stations have a policy that they will not play any song longer
- > than <a certain length> (3.5 minutes?). This is, of course, because we, the
- > listening public, have such short attention spans that if they play anything
- > longer, we will change the station. ;-)
- >
- >
- >
- > Philip R."Just play the first 30 seconds-- I'm in a hurry." Obermarck
- > PObermarck@IntelliCorp.COM
- >
- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >
-
- Often, mastering for CDs has been in the past, shoddy. It could have
- been that nobody bothered to check the tape playback speed to see if it
- was at the right speed. Other big disappointments in the CD past.
- Pink Flloyds Umma Gumma was mastered from a Quadrophonic tape and who
- ever did so got front and rear channels reversed and so all CD here in
- America sounded like garbage. You had to spend $$$ for an import version
- if it was important music for you. There have been hundreds of hooror
- stories as old albums are remastered for CDs.
-
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