The packaging is fantastic - good strong jewel case, quality inserts, fantastic artwork, picture disc, CD text. This is how to present a CD in 2023!
I'm not Lorne Balfe's biggest fan (far from it in fact), but there's about 40/50 minutes of good fantasy music here.
The thing is, this CD is 90 minutes long. And it's NOT a CDR. It's a proper CD. It plays perfectly on my standard CD player and when I take a look on my PC all the tracks are CD Audio Tracks (i.e. cda not mp3).
The maximum length of CD used to be 79 minutes and 54 seconds, but I read that companies can now use 'closer track spacing' or 'optical material reaching deeper into the disc' to make the discs longer. I wonder if this reduces the quality? I'd imagine really old CD players would have an issue playing them.
The packaging is fantastic - good strong jewel case, quality inserts, fantastic artwork, picture disc, CD text. This is how to present a CD in 2023!
I'm not Lorne Balfe's biggest fan (far from it in fact), but there's about 40/50 minutes of good fantasy music here.
The thing is, this CD is 90 minutes long. And it's NOT a CDR. It's a proper CD. It plays perfectly on my standard CD player and when I take a look on my PC all the tracks are CD Audio Tracks (i.e. cda not mp3).
The maximum length of CD used to be 79 minutes and 54 seconds, but I read that companies can now use 'closer track spacing' or 'optical material reaching deeper into the disc' to make the discs longer. I wonder if this reduces the quality? I'd imagine really old CD players would have an issue playing them.
Does anyone have a bit more knowledge on this?
I thought they removed a few tracks to fit in a single CD, this is new then
If it works then Warner putting 80+ minutes of Flash score in a 2-Disc set looks a bit amusing
The thing is, this CD is 90 minutes long. And it's NOT a CDR. It's a proper CD. It plays perfectly on my standard CD player and when I take a look on my PC all the tracks are CD Audio Tracks (i.e. cda not mp3).
The maximum length of CD used to be 79 minutes and 54 seconds, but I read that companies can now use 'closer track spacing' or 'optical material reaching deeper into the disc' to make the discs longer. I wonder if this reduces the quality? I'd imagine really old CD players would have an issue playing them.
Does anyone have a bit more knowledge on this?
I don't have knowledge on the details, but 80+ minute CDs have been a thing for longer than half the time CDs themselves have been a thing. I've watched what seemed to be the max creep up little by little over the years which seeing 86+ minute CDs maybe three-four years back. Never had any issues with sound quality, at least, on longer length CDs.
As for being sure if something is a CDR vs pressed CD, I use the free program ImgBurn, which will show "CD-Rom" for pressed CDs. Also if they WERE MP3s you wouldn't be able to play it normally on most CD players, they'd never sell it like that.
1. Finn’s Boy (2:06) 2. Lads and Lasses (2:01) 3. The Nine Hells (2:09) 4. Free Kenku (2:11) 5. Juice of the Vine (3:10) 6. Oak’s Tale (3:13) 7. Beerzerk (2:58) 8. Sweet Emerald Love (3:36) 9. Drowing in the Jar (2:49) 10. Lasses and Lads (3:43) 11. The Dragons Breath (2:33) 12. The Warden (3:55) 13. Benjamin and Leopold (2:05) 14. I measc na laochra (Amongst the Warriors) (KNEECAP) (2:27)
If that's original Bard source music penned by Balfe (most of which probably didn't end up getting used in the film, I'm guessing)... count me in, I think (to my great surprise). Wonderful movie and fun score.
I am loving this new score album from Balfe's D&D score! It's like a concept album based on all the major themes and it's nice to have these themes played out in a long form context.
