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| 464.1 | Probably a lot more that 72 minutes | SALLIE::BLIZZARD | Mike Blizzard, Woburn FSL | Thu Sep 18 1986 16:54 | 3 |
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Isn't it probable that they can fit so much onto these disks because
most of the material is in MONO?
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| 464.2 | ONE FOR EACH EAR !!!! | PUZZLE::ECTOR | | Thu Sep 18 1986 20:53 | 12 |
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Beg to differ....in the case of Teena Marie, it's all in very exacting
stereo. Also, I believe that Mowtown has always been one of those
labels that prided itself on it's stereo...I own MANY of the early
albums (back to '59 for the first Miracles lp - featured hit was
Bad Girl) which are all in stereo. Not being tekkie, don't think
stereo/mono would have a different effect like it does on records,
where tracks are on either side of a groove, but I'm not sure.
The Cruiser
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| 464.3 | | AKOV68::BOYAJIAN | Forever On Patrol | Fri Sep 19 1986 00:33 | 9 |
| How much of a fan can you be if you can't spell "Motown" right?
(I know, it's tacky to point out spelling errors, but I couldn't
resist.)
Also, I don't know of anyone who claimed that the max time on a
CD was 72 minutes. 74 was the figure I've always heard.
--- jerry
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| 464.4 | Mono=longer? | DSSDEV::STRANGE | | Fri Sep 19 1986 09:49 | 9 |
| In response to reply concerning MONO recordings...
I don't believe it is possible to produce a longer CD simply because
it is mono. I would assume that the Left and Right tracks are
interleaved in the digital encoding (along with a lot of housekeeping
data for the track number, clock, etc.) Whatever the max. length
is, it should be constant for all CD's made by all manufacturers...
-Steve
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| 464.5 | Yes, Jerry - it is MOTOWN | PUZZLE::ECTOR | Al Ector, Santa Clara, Ca | Fri Sep 19 1986 12:29 | 21 |
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Thank heaven for guys like Jerry....of course it's MOTOWN (an acronym
for Motor City). I suppose this needs a trivial bit of explaination.
Being from Chicago (Home of "real" soul music - Chess/Checker/VeeJay,
et al), it became kind of a joke to add the "W" in writing about
MO"W"TOWN to elongate the sound. So I admittedly added it in jest
without letting anyone else in on the Yuk Yuk.
Now for the "meat" of the subject. I did acquire the Supremes double
CD "Where did our love go"/"I hear a symphony" AND one called "Every
Great MOTOWN Song: The 1st 25 years, Vol I & Vol II" - not only
are they good CD's with negligible (if any) hiss, but the selection
on the latter is (as Tony the Tiger would say) GRREEEAAATTT!!!
Recommend anything in the series highly - also in the last mentioned,
a catalog was included. Go fer it !!!
The Cruiser
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| 464.6 | Another mono==>longer | SKYLAB::FISHER | Burns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO1-1/D42 | Fri Sep 19 1986 12:31 | 7 |
| Another comment about mono=longer. You are right that if songs
are mono, you should be able to pack in twice as much info. However,
that would presume that the CD player was clever enough to be able
to interpret that differently-packed data. I doubt any manufacturer
would put that into a player. There are just too few mono recordings.
Burns
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| 464.7 | Yet another mono-->longer | DSSDEV::STRANGE | | Fri Sep 19 1986 16:40 | 14 |
| Yet another comment about mono=longer. If a CD player DID incorporate
reading mono discs to save space, it would have to run at half the
speed that it normally does, since the tracks have to be the same
width. It would also require a different interpreter to read a
mono disc. Also, there would have to be some way for the player
to realize that a certain disc is mono instead of stereo, thus the
discs would have to be specially made for this purpose. It would
be far too expensive to go to that kind of trouble simply to get
mono. Mono discs look the same to a CD player as stereo ones, they
just have the same (close, anyway) data for the left and right tracks.
Sorry for diverging from the topic at hand...
-Steve
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| 464.8 | re: mono CD's... | SMLONE::RYAN | To CD or not CD... | Mon Sep 22 1986 11:46 | 1 |
| see note 359
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