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10 unusual facts about Compact Disc


Cilvia Demo

As promised, Cilvia Demo was released on January 28, 2014 via digital download retailers and was made available in CD format exclusively from From Top Dawg Entertainment's website.

Exabyte

This is equivalent to less than one CD (650 MB) per person in 1986 (539 MB per person), roughly 4 CDs per person of 1993, 12 CDs per person in the year 2000, and almost 61 CDs per person in 2007.

Florida Citrus Archives

It is the further purpose of the Florida Citrus Archives to digitize these materials on CDs, as much as is possible, for research both here and remotely, far into the future, and to physically store these materials in such a manner as to make them available to researchers for many years to come, and to make these materials available to the general public as much as is practical given our current financial status.

Home audio

It was recorded on phonograph, tape, and a few CDs, and required a quadraphonic player for playback.

Kingstown Radio

Since the completion of the last RSL, the Kingston General Hospital has been demolished and the organisation has relocated to new studio at the Hull Royal Infirmary on Anlaby Road, which has been equipped with a computerised play out system called "Myriad", re-writeable CD recorders, MiniDisc and, since 2011, Flash Drive players.

Residencial Las Casas

Estremera would go on to become a legendary singer and international super-star who, in 2003, made a CD commemorating his twenty years in the music industry.

Salvador Pineda

Pineda also made an attempt at a singing career, having released one CD.

Six Fat Dutchmen

The 1995 compilation CD "The Six Fat Dutchmen's Greatest Hits" earned a 3.5 star rating (out of 5) in Allmusic.

Stream from the Heavens

The album was re-issued on CD in 1999 and also in 2004 by Belgian label Painiac as a 12" LP, limited to 500 copies.

The Expression

In 2006, The Expression’s two original albums were digitally remastered and released on CD by independent record label, What It Is Records, which was established by the band's former bass player, Stephen Manassah.


A Bum Note and a Bead of Sweat

The CD also contains a music video (in QuickTime format) for the studio-version of "Closer," which was directed by Dennis Fitzgerald.

Albhy Galuten

As an inventor, Galuten is noted for having created the first commercial drum loop ("Stayin' Alive", Bee Gees), the enhanced CD and patents on content distribution and resolution, on customer care and on User Interface design.

Alina Ibragimova

Her first CD for Hyperion Records was the complete violin works of Karl Amadeus Hartmann in 2007, which was followed by the two violin concertos of Nikolai Roslavets in 2008, a disc of the complete violin and piano works by Karol Szymanowski, and the JS Bach Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin in 2009.

Archeophone Records

Archeophone Records, LLC, based in Champaign, Illinois, specializes in preserving recordings of the acoustic era of the recording industry by remastering phonograph cylinders and gramophone records from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and releasing them on compact disc.

Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project

The conference also discussed ways of exchanging information for the inclusion of older tropical cyclones, such as via compact disc or a Wikipedia-style website.

Broadway Playbill

Broadway Playbill was combined with the Hi-Lo's 1957 album Now Hear This into a compact disc released by Collectables Records on October 17, 2000.

Calling Hong Kong

Tracks 1 & 2 were included on the 2001 compilation CD Pop as a Weapon.

Class of '78

Originally released by the Great American Gramophone Company as a "direct-to-disc" LP album, it has been re-issued on Compact Disc as The Greatest Drummer That Ever Lived With "The Best Band I Ever Had".

Clear Spot

On CD, the album is now available only as a "two for one" with its predecessor The Spotlight Kid, giving an overview of the work created when the band were in Felton and then nearby Trinidad, CA.

Costa Mesa Hates Me

Tracks one and three were included on the 2001 compilation CD Pop as a Weapon.

Elizabeth Cronin

Various recordings and archive material were assembled by her grandson, Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, for a book and CD collection, The Songs of Elizabeth Cronin.

Fucking Smilers

In addition to the standard CD package, Smilers is available in a limited-edition package with a book-bound cover, a die-cut 32-page book with illustrations by renowned artist Gary Taxali, and held together with metal screw binding.

Gub

Compact disc versions of Gub include the four remix tracks that originally appeared on the Spoon Breakfast EP.

Harlequin Dream

A collector's edition of the album featuring vinyl and CD copies of the album as well as a lyric booklet, artwork print and "one-of-a-kind Polaroid photo of the band" was also released alongside the standard edition.

Hôtel Costes

Hôtel Costes also releases its own compilation lounge music CDs, which contains music played and mixed within by DJ Stéphane Pompougnac.

I'm a Big Sister, and I'm a Girl, and I'm a Princess, and This Is My Horse

The download-only package is a .zip file containing a 192kbit/s encoded .mp3 file, a 6-minute QuickTime slide-show of black-and-white photographs set to ambient sounds, and a PDF of the CD insert.

Junior idol

Content is available in a plethora of formats, usually physical goods such as bond photobooks, CDs and DVDs, but also digital content in the form of Portable Document Format books, JPEG photo sets, high resolution movie clips, etc.

Kyle Bobby Dunn

In early 2010, a long form album that filled a double compact disc set containing five years worth of his music, A Young Person's Guide to Kyle Bobby Dunn, arrived on the UK based label Low Point, and was praised in various music journalism and considered a 'deeply affecting' work by The New York Times and 'his most definitive statement so far,' by Pitchforkmedia.

Mainstream Records

In 1991 it was resurrected in order to reissue much of its holdings on compact disc and, in 1993, it was purchased by Sony subsidiary Legacy Records.

Mukuro Rokudo

Also, his and Kyoya Hibari's character CD entitled "Sakura addiction", peaked at seventh place on the Oricon charts.

Muzika Poludelih

In 2009, the band released their fourth studio album The Beast Is Back, featuring six songs only and available on both compact disc, released by New Age Family records, as well in mp3 format, available for digital download at the official Myspace page.

My Republic

The compact disc version of the album includes enhanced CD content consisting of video footage of a three-song live performance in Santa Cruz, California from August 2005, and a PETA documentary entitled "Meet Your Meat".

No World Order

This CD-only recording was available in an interactive version on Philips' short-lived CD-i format, as well as the Macintosh and Windows operating systems.

Pitty

Besides being released on CD, DVD, and DualDisc, the record was also released in a unit cell model, the result of a partnership with Nokia.

Playhouse Records

The label resumed production and distribution of Copp and Brown's material on cassette and CD under the direction of Ted and Laura Leyhe in the 1990s.

Rockdelux

In April 1999, Rockdelux began to issue complimentary CDs as a free gift with the magazine, each one generally acting as a sampler for a particular record label, such as Warp Records, Fierce Panda Records and Sub Pop records.

Ruby Wright

A CD of Wright's recordings, which contained a total of 27 songs, is entitled Ruby Wright Regular Girl (The King Recordings 1949-1959).

Ryan's Fancy

Ryan's Fancy Live (Compact Disc Reissue of "An Irish Night at the Black Knight Lounge" and "15 Drink-a-Long Songs") (1995)

Save Each Other, the Whales Are Doing Fine

The CD was released with a bonus DVD which was filmed on January 13th, 2006 at Alley Katz in Richmond, Virginia with some portions filmed on February 24th, 2006 at Calvary Lutheran Church in East Meadow, New York.

Slowly, Slowly

"Slowly, Slowly" is a 1994 single by Magnapop from the album Hot Boxing, released by Play It Again Sam Records on Compact Disc (catalogue number 450.0257.22 - BIAS 257 CD) and 12" gramophone record (450.0257.30 - BIAS 257), as well as a limited-edition white vinyl version (450.0257.38 - BIAS 257 X.) A promo Compact Disc edition was released by Priority Records as DPRO 50804.

Terrell Stone

His solo recordings include a compact disc of the solo music of Johann Paul Schiffelholz (misattributed to Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello) for gallichon, a 3 CD box set containing partitas composed by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute from the Warsaw manuscript, and a CD containing music of 16th century Paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater of the "Università degli Studi di Padova" (University of Padua).

The Africa/Brass Sessions, Volume 2

On October 10, 1995, Impulse incorporated the tracks issued here into a two-disc set entitled The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions.

The Essential Byrds

The Essential Byrds is a comprehensive two-CD compilation album released by the American rock band The Byrds in 2003 as part of Sony BMG's The Essential series.

The Guitar World According to Frank Zappa

The compilation has never been made available officially in other formats (compact discs, etc.), but the cassette contains some unique material, including an unreleased guitar solo and an excerpt from an unreleased remix of "Revised Music for Guitar and Low-Budget Orchestra" from the Studio Tan album, featuring drum overdubs by Chad Wackerman.

The Majesty of the Blues

The Majesty of the Blues was originally released in the LP, Compact Disc, and Cassette tape formats.

The Numb E.P.

A sticker on the CD's shrinkwrap contained a quote by Chuck Norris about the band: "It's terrible, but I guess you gotta have that kind of music, too."

The Patti Smith Masters

The box set contains 20-bit digitally remastered CD versions of the first 5 Patti Smith's albums with bonus tracks, and a 6th disc, Selected Songs.

The Travel Show

The EP was never released on CD; however, it can be purchased on the Internet as a digital download in MP3 format.

Try!

The CD includes two cover songs, "Wait Until Tomorrow" by Jimi Hendrix, and "I Got a Woman" by Ray Charles; two of Mayer's previous album, Heavier Things's songs, "Daughters" and "Something's Missing"; and also showcased two songs from Mayer's then forthcoming album, Continuum, "Vultures" and "Gravity".

Two Colours EP

Released on a 7" and a CD in 1995 (see 1995 in music), it is one of the hardest Feeder records to find nowadays (the hardest is a 12" White Label vinyl of their hit single "Buck Rogers", limited to 11 copies), occasionally a copy will become available on eBay.

Welcome to Sunny Florida

Welcome to Sunny Florida is the name of a DVD and CD set released by singer/songwriter Tori Amos in 2004.

With a Little Help from Our Friends

This is a single CD/cassette presenting original material that was recorded during their daily radio show (long before going into syndication), as well as other studio numbers that had not been previously presented on air.