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| From | Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com> |
| Subject | Re: Ipod? Upod? Everybody Pod Pod.. |
| Date | Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:17:07 -0400 |
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At 12:20 PM 7/11/2004 -0400, Mark London wrote:
>>From: Stewart Mason <flamingo@theworld.com>
>>At 04:35 PM 7/10/2004 -0700, Judy B wrote:
>>><< Rip all cd's and vinyl to uncompressed wav format. Hard drive space is
>>>now cheap enough to economically do that.
>>
>>Looking around at the literally thousands of CDs and LPs surrounding me,
>>all I can think is:
>>
>>2. When the hell will I have the TIME?
>
>I know that a lot of people who have already transferred many of the
>vinyl only music to digital. Considering your music collection, I'm
>sure you could arrange for swaps to get them, rather than having to
>do the transfer yourself.
Yeah, for a lot of things, but combing the net for someone who has a high
quality digital copy of, say, BAG YOUR FACE by the Nelsons (who were THE
local band when I was in high school in Lubbock but never did much
nationally besides winning one month of the MTV Battle of the Bands) would
take even longer than doing it myself, and forget about all of these
five-decade-old Bulgarian records of Charity's.
>Btw, the process is a definitely good way of pruning your collection.
>It's amazing how many records I learned that I could live without,
>when deciding which ones I wanted to put on CD. Or that I simply was
>interested in a couple of the songs from an album.
I dunno, I'm just being reminded of Nicholson Baker's DOUBLE FOLD:
LIBRARIES AND THE ASSAULT ON PAPER. He argues, and I tend to agree, that a
lot of information was irretrivably lost when overeager libraries rushed to
digitize and dump, often using sloppy, incomplete and poorly-done methods.
(I used to work at a place where one of my projects was cleaning up and
restoring data for the OCLC that an outsourced data-entry place in
Mauritania completely screwed up.) I have no problem with upgrading -- for
example, I threw out a few overlapping and not very good Move best-ofs on
vinyl a few years ago when I acquired the MOVEMENTS box and the GREAT MOVE!
comp, therely getting the group's entire output on four discs -- but a
bunch of 0s and 1s doesn't feel like an upgrade to me.
S
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