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Digitizing Rare Vinyl
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."
Hey, I'll only believe this if we get the OMG Ponies theme to go with it!
I just checked one. It's only 128kbps. At that bitrate MP3 is a poor choice for archiving compared to just about any other format. If not OGG then at least AAC. Personally, I'd prefer OGG, but I accept that most player device manufactures haven't touched it. I'm just relieved it's not in WMA.
Ummmm... Ogg Vorbis is widely considered to be in violation of several patents, so using Ogg doesn't solve the problem of being held hostage by patent holders, trolls or otherwise.
... and then they built the supercollider.
Meh, don't "defer" to anyone's low id. Means nothing. I used to post on Slashdot back before there were even user accounts, and when they did start having users, I refused to participate. I only registered an account when the default threshold was set to 1 to annihilate anonymous postings. I used to be quite a fanatic about being anonymous and untrackable. It worked, too...there's barely any record of my existence for about 10 years.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!