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Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- Subject: Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- From: Dan.Pop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Date: 1995/10/11
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In <AC9999149668141A31@slip12.cs2.electriciti.com> mrosenberg@macconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) writes:
>In article <miller.812763916@aries>,
>miller@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Kelly Miller) wrote:
>
>> >> In article <43ogf7$7tr@guysmiley.blarg.net>, warrl@blarg.net wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > The Japanese learned... the *first* format they came out with for CD's
>> >> > has the rather odd-sounding length of 70 minutes. This is how long it
>> >> > *has* to be, to put Beethoven's 9th Symphony on one CD.
>>
>> For what it's worth, Beethoven's 9th Symphony is about 60 - 63 minutes
>> long, depending upon the pace the conductor sets.
>
>For what it's worth, my copy of Beethoven's 9th (Haitink, Concertgebouw
>Orchestra, Philips #410 036-2) is 69.5 minutes long, rather longer than
>60-63 minutes. I recall reading back when CDs were first introduced that
>the length chosen by Sony/Philips was, in fact, to accomodate a particular
>recording of the 9th.
Must have been a pretty slow one :-)
I have a couple of CD's which are 79 minutes each.
Dan
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