Well, I would think not, by definition. The spec goes up to 74 minutes I believe it is, enough to fit Beethoven's 9th IIRC. Too bad they didn't also think to squeeze in a few bits for track/title information!
my LG external optical drive struggles with anything that does not comply to the redbook standards. if a cd over runs the standard length, the thing goes into overdrive with error/re-reads (can hear the thing going crazy), and often fails. the only way i can read these discs is to dig out my old XP laptop and use its internal cd drive, as that reads anything without a care.
I'm pretty sure the Chorus box set by Lush has discs that are 80+. They have a tendency to skip and stutter near the end, anyway.
According to Wikipedia, the Mozart Violin Concertos (Mozart 225 Box Set, CD75), Decca / Deutsche Grammophon 478 9864 of 2016, is the longest CD recording at 86:3 but - I've seen examples here that are longer. You can use narrower tracks than specified in the Red Book and they "may" work OK. Compact Disc Digital Audio - Wikipedia The most I personally have managed to record is 76:32 at 792,403 MB's on a single CD. Don't know how - but the burner did it and it plays fine on multiple platforms. Go figure! Reeves
At one time my longest was Joy Division's Still. When I got it (sometime in 1990) it wouldn't play in a fairly new CD player. The store sent it in to be serviced and they asked me to bring my longest CD along. Still clocked in at over 80 minutes, the guy in the shop was surprised and was still thinking discs couldn't be over 74 minutes.
Basically, what happens is that they narrow the tracks and thus can squeeze more onto the disc. Most non-standard CD like that will play in "most" CD players, but not all. On the four CD burners in my computers, my DVD players, and my Blu-Ray, all will play my longest CD's - BUT only one will burn or duplicate it. It depends upon both the mechanical and electronics of the particular player. That's why it worked OK in your car and computer, but it also got lost after track 40. The sad thing is that there is not way that I know of to tell which CD players will work with non-standard CD except to try them. Reeves
Same here. A lot of these recent CDs packed with bonus mixes, or compilations filled to the brim...79.18 or 79.59...those behave exactly like that in my LG drives. I've got a newer, small external drive that seems to cope better all round with modern, non-red book, CDs. EG.
David Bowie Outside in Budapest 82:32. It's a grey market release, so... My longest official CD is Page & Plant's No Quarter, which clocks in a few seconds under 80 minutes.
A more recent example would be Notes On A Conditional Form by The 1975,it's on one CD and has a run time of 80.29
