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===Compact disc format=== One legend is that the [[compact disc]] was deliberately designed to have a 74-minute playing time so that it could accommodate Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Why is a CD 74 minutes long? It's because of Beethoven|url=https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/why-is-a-cd-74-minutes/|access-date=2021-03-27|author=Victoria Longdon|website=[[Classic FM (UK)|Classic FM]]|date=3 May 2019}}</ref> [[Kees Immink]], [[Philips]]' chief engineer, who developed the CD, recalls that a commercial tug-of-war between the development partners, [[Sony]] and Philips, led to a settlement in a neutral 12-cm diameter format. The 1951 performance of the Ninth Symphony conducted by [[Wilhelm Furtwängler|Furtwängler]] was brought forward as the perfect excuse for the change,<ref name="Immink2">{{Cite journal |journal=IEEE Information Theory Society Newsletter |volume=57 |date=2007 |title=Shannon, Beethoven, and the Compact Disc |author=K. A. Schouhamer Immink |author-link=Kees Schouhamer Immink |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/322951358 |pages=42–46 |access-date=2018-02-06 }}</ref><ref name="Imminknature">{{Cite journal |journal=[[Nature Electronics]] |volume=1 |date=2018 |title=How we made the compact disc |author=K.A. Schouhamer Immink |author-link=Kees Schouhamer Immink |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324571504 |access-date=2018-04-16 |quote=An international collaboration between Philips and the Sony Corporation lead to the creation of the compact disc. The author explains how it came about }}</ref> and was put forth in a Philips news release celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Compact Disc as the reason for the 74-minute length.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ecoustics.com/products/philips-celebrates-25th-anniversary-compact/|title=Philips Celebrates 25th Anniversary of the Compact Disc|author=Brian Mitchell|date=16 August 2007|access-date=10 July 2023|website=ecoustics.com}}</ref>
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