Audio CD's - 700mb VS 840mb Extended Play Music CD's

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Audio CD’s - 700mb VS 840mb Extended Play Music CD’s

I was not able to find the 2 CD music CD set that I wanted but was able to a newer CD that contained all of the songs all on one CD which did not sound right to me so I went to Wikipedia to investigate further and this is what wiki stated.

A normal CD has 74 minutes of uncompressed stereo digital audio or about 650 mb of data capacity which can be extended to 80 minutes and can be extended to a maximum of 90 minutes 838,860,800 bytes or 99 minutes by arranging data more closely on the same sized disc.

Questions:

Will any CD player including my older CD player in my laptop play these extended CD"s without having any issues.

Also in the long run will these extended play new CD’s also be more susceptible to errors or data loss ?

Questions:

Will any CD player including my older CD player in my laptop play these extended CD"s without having any issues.

Also in the long run will these extended play new CD’s also be more suseptable to errors or data loss ?

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Will any CD player play EP CDs; No. Some will some will not. For those that do play, they may not play correctly all the time

More susceptible to errors; Yes. The more tightly packed the bits, the greater the likelihood of one or more not being written or read correctly. Error correction may or may not save the day. The induced increase in jitter is the bane of a good sounding system otherwise.

Do you have a link to the EP CD you’re referring?

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Great info, thanks for the Extended Play article.