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Aaron, my promo 45 has both a listed and actual time of (3:52).

Is the difference the length of fadeout at the end, or is the edit improper?

Or both of the above?

My guess is the 3:52 time that Jim supplied for his 45 is an earlier fade than the CD's in the database.

Jim, do you have a stock 45 you can time?

**Doug beat me by ONE minute!!** John, as Aaron mentioned in his initial post, the question here refers to the DJ, PROMO 45 short version's exact time. The stock 45 version runs almost (5:00), and is, quite frankly, completely irrelevant to Aaron's initial question. As you've no doubt observed by now, offering up gut feelings, speculation, flat-out guesses or thoeries about what MIGHT be causing these timings differences doesn't really help us answer the question at hand - anyone can have an opinion. What we're REALLY looking for here is solid, factual information, using the actual vinyl and CD sources in question. A great many of us here on the Board have LONG ago learned not to trust ANY timing details until we've confirmed them ourselves. And now that Aaron knows that the (3:52) listed DJ 45 time is accurate, the next step is for him to put it under his "audio comparison microscope". To compare/contrast the DJ 45 wave forms, vs. the CD's. But this is time consuming, and Aaron only wanted to spend the time on it if he was certain that there was an ACTUAL time difference, which he now knows there is. I'm amazed, every day, at the accuracy level of the many, many specific details offered up on the Board. There are hardly ANY typos among our posters; have you noticed this? We are fanatics for correct details. Not perfect, but VERY detail oriented.

Edited by jimct

my commercial 45, issued as atlantic 3449, states a run time of 4:53, but actually runs 4:51 like many of the entries in the db.....this should be noted....