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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!ncar!noao!arizona!arizona.edu!pyros.hacks.arizona.edu!omf
  2. From: omf@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu (Oscar Fowler)
  3. Newsgroups: rec.audio
  4. Subject: Re: Old CD Player and New CDs
  5. Message-ID: <23JAN93134941@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu>
  6. Date: 23 Jan 93 20:49:41 GMT
  7. References: <22JAN93210325@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu> <shetline-230193110939@128.89.19.90>
  8. Reply-To: omf@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu
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  15.  
  16. In article <shetline-230193110939@128.89.19.90>, shetline@bbn.com (Kerry Shetline) writes...
  17. >In article <22JAN93210325@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu>,
  18. >omf@pyros.hacks.arizona.edu (Oscar Fowler) wrote:
  19. >> I've noticed that I have problems playing CD's bought in the last few
  20. >> months, however!  There are about four CD's which my player just
  21. >> keeps spinning around and around trying to get the track info from,
  22. >> but never making it.
  23. > 
  24. >Do the new CDs that don't play have play times of over 74 minutes? Some CDs
  25. >push their play time up to 80 minutes (maybe even longer). Anything past 74
  26. >isn't really according to Hoyle, however, and some older machines might
  27. >have problems with extra-long discs.
  28.  
  29. Thanks for the suggestion - I'll have to check out that possibility,
  30. however, I think some of my old CD's also push 74 minutes, so I doubt
  31. that that is the problem.  The 'narrow track width' you mentioned
  32. sounds more likely - is this really being done?  I thought the CD format
  33. had a fixed track width...
  34.  
  35. Oscar
  36.