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Digitizing Rare Vinyl

Posted by kdawson on from the quarter-taped-to-the-tone-arm dept.

eldavojohn writes "While the RIAA is busy changing its image to a snake eating its own tail, one man is busy digitizing out-of-print 78s. 'There's a whole world of music that you don't hear anymore, and it's on 78 RPM records,' he stated to Wired. Right now, you can find about 4,000 MP3s on his site, with no digital noise reduction implemented yet."

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  1. Firsssssssst Posssssssst by Harmonious+Botch · · Score: 5, Funny

    Cue the purists saying: "But it is supposed to have hiss. That's part of its character."

    1. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst by r_jensen11 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cue the purists saying: "But it is supposed to have hiss. That's part of its character."

      Is that before or after they yell at him for not storing as .wav or .flac?

    2. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst by The+Ancients · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cue the purists saying: "But it is supposed to have hiss. That's part of its character."

      So you're saying they'd throw a hissy fit?

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    3. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst by dontmakemethink · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cue the purists saying: "But it is supposed to have hiss. That's part of its character."

      Is that before or after they yell at him for not storing as .wav or .flac?

      50 years from now they'll say, "It's supposed to have compression artifacts. It garbles the hiss to signify the archaic bandwidth and storage capacity."

      Actually they'll just think it, and their Facebook status will automatically update.

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    4. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, but without the up-modding of the post, would we really know how fucking awesome it really is?

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  2. Other archival projects by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Library of Congress has an archival project:

    http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1216161

    This is going the other way - from digital to 78's. Shellac 78's appear to be the best archival format.

  3. CDDB by CranberryKing · · Score: 4, Funny

    You mean he doesn't have the CDDB plugin for his KLH turntable? Seriously, none of the files have any ID3 tags. He's also using an ACCESS database. I think the archive gods are displeased with this one.