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Meanwhile the LP crowd was flipping sides like it was Ultima VIII (slight exaggeration). Why would it be critical for a new format to do away with multi-disc re
by rzzzt 7mo ago
Meanwhile the LP crowd was flipping sides like it was Ultima VIII (slight exaggeration). Why would it be critical for a new format to do away with multi-disc releases if the customer base has already grown accustomed to them?
- rbanffy 7mo agoBecause it was annoying to flip the disk in the middle of the thing.
- ndiddy 7mo agoFor classical music it's a problem because the long track lengths mean that you'll have to flip the record over in the middle of a piece. This was enough of an annoyance that one French label in the 70s created special records just for classical music with extra tightly packed grooves that could hold close to an hour on each side (https://www.discogs.com/label/184887-Trimicron https://www.discogs.com/label/184887-Trimicron). The downside of this is that the maximum recording volume is significantly reduced so there's a lot more background noise than on a normal record.