• @g_the_b
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    86 months ago

    CDs were designed to hold 72 minutes of music to accommodate Beethoven’s 9th

    • @[email protected]
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      46 months ago

      Snopes says this is “undetermined” (also that CDs hold 74 minutes). Honesty pleasently surprised by how plausible it is from the given evidence though, I was expecting this to turn out to be definitively a myth.

      • @g_the_b
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        16 months ago

        Yeah, just checked and the Wikipedia says it’s a myth!