In article ,
Mike Fordyce wrote:
Wasn't there another reason for choosing this particular sampling rate -
it allowed storage of approx 1 hour of music on the CD technology
available at the time?


Well, 74 minutes is a bit more than approx an hour. But it was said to be
based on the longest common piece of music. Oh - and the maximum then
length of a NTSC U-Matic tape.

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