At 11:26 AM 8/10/99 -0500, DWT wrote:

>If the EP is on a digital medium, yes, it is possible that its SCMS bits were
>set for unrestricted recopying.

EP is a left over term from the vinyl days. It is used these days to mean a
short album, usually of seven or eight three to four minute tracks.
Typically they are rare or unrelated materials that have been compiled
together. Live EPs are also common.

>There are ways to tweak the CD standard to fit in up to about 81 minutes.
>Many of the CDs in my collection exceed 79 minutes (though copying them to
>a 74m59s MD would be no problem as almost all of those include some mono
>material).
>
>Somewhere on the net there used to be a page listing the longest CDs, and
>some exceeded eighty minutes.

Except that once my Sony Midi system listed the length of a regular 74
minute CD as 80:08. I tried again, and it came to its senses. :-)

-- 
Archer
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