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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: CD retro packaging being relaunched Posted: 03 Apr 2018, 15:49 |
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CD3 is one of my favorite formats. Unfortunately Def Leppard is total garbage music for redneck morons who think good music is no longer made. I mean...the worst. Hopefully somebody, anybody, will join them in bringing back CD3.
I have to say, since the format’s demise its extreme compatibility is no longer so total. There are now slot loading players in almost every car and almost none of them will play CD3s. The adaptors that used to come with CD3s in the early days will not stay attached at 48x or whatever today’s multi-media drives will peak at. Even brand new standard looking decks...most of them are designed to play multi-format CDs and will spin very fast at times so unless there is an drawer with an actual 3” section (like an LD player) I wouldn’t play them.
Last edited by signofzeta on 03 Apr 2018, 21:48, edited 1 time in total.
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rein-o
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Post subject: Re: CD retro packaging being relaunched Posted: 03 Apr 2018, 17:51 |
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Cool but I can't really see why they are doing this. I had a few 3 inch CDs back in the day but they were such a pain, almost like the 45, you had to keep changing them out. For records its easier, but the tray deal with CDs is harder to just swap them out or stack them. The one I can remember I owned was the Keith Richards Talk is Cheap limited tin, played it again years later and I couldn't sell it fast enough on ebay what a horrible album.
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dumbchemist
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Post subject: Re: CD retro packaging being relaunched Posted: 03 Apr 2018, 18:11 |
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That is funny that you mention the CD3 format as I believe that I have one of the earliest releases. The CD is labeled "DELOS: Pocket Classics: 2001 A Sonic Odyssey".There are 7 classics listed by various composers. You have 1) Strauss: Thus Spake Zarathrusta, 2) Respighi: Roman Festivals, 3) Falla: The Three Cornered Hat, 4) Handel: Water Music, 5) Rimsky Korsakoff: Flight of the Bumblebee, 6) Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, and 7) Stravinsky: The Firebird. Each piece is a small sampler of the original and is very short. Total running time for the entire CD is 17.49 minutes.
I remember buying 2 of this CD in December 1987. I kept one and gave the other to a co-worker who was into CD's at the time.
The CD is copyrighted 1987. The CD includes the adapter and is the only CD3 in my entire CD collection.
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signofzeta
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Post subject: Re: CD retro packaging being relaunched Posted: 04 Apr 2018, 01:45 |
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If it’s something released in the UK after chart limitations were applied you were limited to three tracks across three formats with a max running time of exactly a CD3 (although they were pressed on CD5s with a mirror section) or 45RPM 12”. Generally EU releases would have one two or three track and another more expensive disc with many more tracks. US versions of CD singles always had the worst cheapest packaging but would be sometimes MAXED on run time and as many formats as the label would want because physical sales stopped driving US chart position in the 80s. JP versions always had the best paper, design, ink, etc and are sometimes the only release in the world with an off-vocal or karaoke version. Usually three tracks was max and rarely were they long. Often you get two songs and then the instrumental versions of those. Price per minute was of course the highest in the world. This was what I remember from the single days. I was big into singles. I wish they’d come back, particularly the 12”s. It’s weird that we’re in the middle of this huge LP revival and there is almost no 12” output. I would for sure be at the record store more often if my favorite bands released things more than just an expensive full length every other year.
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takeshi666
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Post subject: Re: CD retro packaging being relaunched Posted: 05 Apr 2018, 13:21 |
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signofzeta wrote: There seems to be a lot of that stuff coming out but on compilations. True, but those compilations tend to exclude the B-side which might be an alternate mix of the title song. Ones like the one I mentioned where you get two songs and their respective B-sides on a single CD, those are probably a bit more uncommon.
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takou
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Post subject: Re: CD retro packaging being relaunched Posted: 08 Apr 2018, 19:50 |
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signofzeta wrote: Unfortunately Def Leppard is total garbage music for redneck morons who think good music is no longer made. I have no opinion about Def Leppard and I've never listen to their music, but I'm always fond of a nice SoZ definition.
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