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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. Re:Digitizing vinyl by corsec67 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I wonder how badly the MP3 compression affects the music with all of that hiss and crackle taking-up so much bandwidth? Also, how much would the compression artifacts affect the ability of the clean-up utility to do its job?

    Agreed. It seems to be fairly bad, since the mp3s I downloaded were 128kpbs, which doesn't leave very much extra data there.

    He should have recorded them to FLAC, and created the mp3s to put on the website, so that he would have a lossless original version.

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  2. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst by dwater · · Score: 1, Redundant

    IINM, hiss was tape. Crackles and pops (ie from dust) was the 'warmth' attributable to vinyl.

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