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Title:	Welcome to the CD Notes Conference
Notice:	Welcome to COOKIE
Moderator:	COOKIE::ROLLOW

Created:	Mon Feb 17 1986
Last Modified:	Fri Mar 03 1989
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1517
Total number of notes:	13349

976.0. "L-o-n-g CDs?" by EPOCH::JOHNSON (Whoever dies with the most toys, wins.) Thu Nov 19 1987 05:44

    This is a curiosity question:
    
    I remember hearing about the capability of CDs to store megabytes
    of data and wonder how much music can be packed onto one of these
    disks?  I've seen some remasterings of 'original two-record sets'
    on double-CD packs and have wondered why they don't just throw both
    LPs onto one CD.
    
    It would please me (and I'd be willing to pay commensurately) to
    have, say, several Beatles albums on one CD.  Is this doable?  Has
    anyone ever done it?  Are there any CDs out there that contain
    appreciably more than 70 minutes of music?
    
    Pete

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976.1		QUARK::LIONEL	We all live in a yellow subroutine	`Thu Nov 19 1987 06:08`	4
	The longest possible CD is 74 minutes and 20 seconds (not sure about the seconds..) There's a note in here that lists very long CDs somewhere... Steve
976.2	like RAM: x4/1.5yr	REGENT::POWERS		`Thu Nov 19 1987 07:05`	6
	but I have a related question.... When is the audio industry going to do what the computer industry always does and obsolete all the players in the country by doubling or quadrupling the disc capacity? - tom]
976.3	see also note 828 in this conference	GENRAL::SEAGLE	Everybody generalizes	`Thu Nov 19 1987 17:36`	1

976.4	Paul McCartney!!	VAXINE::COYNER		`Mon Dec 07 1987 14:29`	4
	I just bought the new Paul McCartney CD "All The Best" and it is only one CD (but a double album) and is 72min and 42(?)sec long. It's a great CD, and for only $14 you can't beat it!!!!!!!