boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) (10/04/85)
> From: tellab1!barth (Barth Richards) > 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. So the POLAND album on CD is probably complete, even though it > is only a on a single disc. Nope. CD capacity is in the neighborhood of 75 minutes. Which is still more than enough for some double albums. Pat Metheny's 80/81 goes over the 75 minute limit and as a consequence, they left off two tunes (actually, they only needed to leave off one tune to get under the limit, but that's life). Why they didn't issue it on a double-disk is beyond me. Now my SL-2700 Beta Hi-Fi VCR can hold up to 5 hours of music with top quality sound. Matter of fact, on one L-750 (4-1/2 hour at Beta-III) tape, I recorded a friend's 2 disks of the Brandenbergs (finally! I can listen to all 6 *in order* without having to keep changing records!) plus a 3-disk set of Bach piano and harpsicord music. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA