Max Playtime On One Side Of A Vinyl

Vinyl record pressing 7 inch records.

Max playtime on one side of a vinyl. A vinyl lp can hold over 40 minutes of music a side. Vinyl records share the same limitation and can represent a limited playtime accurately. Squeezes 59 20 on one vinyl. Just like any medium for music there is only so much space you can use to transcribe music onto.

A standard 12 inch 33 rpm vinyl record can have a playtime of roughly 22 minutes per side for a total of 44 minutes. Introduced by columbia in 1948 it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. It actually turned out much better than i thought it would. The lp from long playing 1 or long play is an analog sound storage medium a phonograph record format characterized by a speed of 33 1 3 rpm a 12 or 10 inch 30 or 25 cm diameter and use of the microgroove groove specification.

At 33 rpm they hold around 15 22 minutes per side. At 45 rpm they hold around 12 15 minutes per side 33. So to make a great sounding record i have to be concerned about the playing time and how the music itself sets the parameters for sound quality. Gorgeous full length vinyl records on 150 and 180 gram 12 inch records are generally manufactured for full length lp albums.

But the sound quality isn t good at all. I recall miles get up with it which came out on vinyl in the early 70s having sides that clocked in at slighty more than 30 minutes per side. But the sound quality isn t good at all. Some examples given have a far longer running time but the craziest example in my collection is the vinyl edition of the 1980 uk comp deepest purple.

Permalink 1 2k 224 30. Recently i had an audio restoration job on a 6 minute funk jam squeezed on one side of a 45 and pressed on styrene ugh. The cuts in particular are caypso frelimo he loved him madly. Six pretty long tracks on each side make op for a little over 30 minutes.

And on a 12 inch record you can fit around 12 15 minutes per side at 45 rpm and 15 22 minutes per side at 33 rpm the most common speed.