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Points: 12799 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 31 2009 at 05:43
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Another point to note is that album length does not necessarily expand to fill the currently popular medium - at the height of compact cassette popularity album length remained around the 40 minute mark, even though cassettes were out-selling vinyl and could contain 90 or 120 minutes of music.
 
I do believe I read in the late 70's that one US cassette manufacturer, having surveyed the average length of an LP  and actually sold C42.5 cassettes - even though few album were really 42 and half minutes long. I don't imagine those cassettes were on the market for long.......
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