so i’m reading this book, the guinness book of recorded sound, it’s pretty old, from 1984.
and i quote “…and it surely will not be long before both sides of the disc will carry music signals, for it will doubtless be found possible to print label information onto the playing surface in such a way that it is invisible to the laser beam.”
well? i’ve been collecting music for years, and have been around it in many circumstances. i know about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and even 7 sided records, where the tracks are laid out in a way that they don’t intersect.
The development of the DVD pretty much closed down technical innovation in the world of CDs before the double-sided disc was developed. It seems highly unlikely that R&D or manufacturing development money will find its way back to CDs.
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"I’ve been collecting music for years, and have been around it in many circumstances. i know about 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and even 7 sided records, where the tracks are laid out in a way that they don’t intersect.
Are you talking about vynal albums like Kate Bush’s “The Kick Inside” with multiple grooves? Or are you talking about some other kind of recording media?
No because you would change the balance of the cd. Plus they aren’t made for that much weight. People put their own labels on top of cd’s that changes the balance of them & they may not play anymore.
i’m assuming so. i’m not familiar with that particular rekkid, but there’s a monty python one, i think even named “the 3 sided record”. according to the book these were big in the 30s-50s, one record had a comedian narrating a horse race, and at the end, there were 6 different grooves the needle could slide in. and one had a guy reading limericks with the ending to be determined by chance. neat gimmicks. and tool made one a couple of years back, with only one track that was doubled. so if you wanted to hear this song, you’d drop the needle on the grooves, but half of the time, you’d hear a bonus cut. but if you played the side all the way through, you’d never know. freaky.
Even were it safe, most home CD players only have a laser on one side, so it wouldn;t matter much, you could only read on CD side at a time in the player.
My double-sided CD is not two normal CDs cemented together: it was obviously specially made. It appears to be two unusually thin CDs glued back to back. And yes, you have to turn it over to play each side.
Well BMU, thanks for that;)
I realised that dumping one cd on top of another wouldn’t enable me to play the second, even if there were a second laser, unless I put it in upside down! I just wondered if two cd’s will fit in the player, allow the bottom cd to play and not damage the player. They’re fiddly little bastards when you’ve had a few.
Handy, balance? I don’t think the addition of a similarly symmetrical cd would affect the balance.
I recently moved to Seattle from Chicago, and I still have some stuff in storage. So I can’t put my hands on it right now. But it was a promotional thing, probably 6 or 8 years old, with a Shakespeare’s Sister song on one side, and . . . a song by someone else from the same label on the other. I don’t remember the titles, but I seem to remember each one could have been misconstrued as a pun on two-sidedness. Either that (it’s been that long) or each title was like a reflection of the other, along the lines of “To do is to be” and “To be is to do.” Sorry; that’s all I can pull out of my memory.