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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."

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  1. Anonymous Coward by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    LAinhart thy leet haxor :-p

  2. Re:Other archival projects by hkz · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, I'll only believe this if we get the OMG Ponies theme to go with it!

  3. Re:So who's going to stop this guy first? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    smelly cat turds have driven me to pusillanimie!!!!!!!!!

  4. why won't you stop the madness? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    homosexuals are eying up your children. can you let their scourge continue unchecked?

  5. Re:78's, 16's... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    do you have such a stick up your ass that you have a problem with the term "flock"?
     
    you guys are really getting out of hand with your hatred for religion. why not point that anger towards other drains on society like faggots or welfare recipients? oh that's right, it's because they're your only supporters.

  6. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst by Air-conditioned+cowh · · Score: 1, Troll

    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.

  7. Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst by dangitman · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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  8. Re:Surprising! by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 0, Troll

    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.

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