"Best of" CDs: number of CDs

I'm puttering around the house, listening to CDs I haven't played in a while.

I had forgotten how much I enjoy my "Jim Croce: 36 All-time greatest hits" CD collection. But, it's a bit of a have* to spread it across 3 cds: it's as if they're trying to make the consumer think that they're really getting a bargain -- **three** CDs, not just two!!!

I realized this when I played the first CD, then thought, "My! That was over quickly!" I looked at the case, and realized that each of the three CDs had only twelve songs.

This caused me to look at the total time per CD:

1=34:02
2=34:45
3=33:48

The cumulative total is 106 minutes. Since a stardard CD hold 70 mins of audio, there was no defensible reason they couldn't have split the thirty-six songs across the two CDs: 18 & 18 tracks, at 53 minutes per CD

As it is, having only a single-CD player, I have to get up to change the CD 50% more often! Bwah. ;)


--TG

*"a bit of a have" is Aussie for "a rook, a ripoff, a cheat, an underhanded deception."