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| From | Ken Kase <kenkase@nighttimes.com> |
| Subject | Re: CD-Writer and Audio CDs question |
| Date | Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:01:27 -0600 |
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Another interesting thing: Earlier this year, I heard a story on National
Public Radio about how the Library of Congress preserves music. You won't
believe what they're doing! They are transferring CD's to 78 rpm shellac
discs because that's the most resilient form of preservation (provided you
don't drop them). They took, for example, Eminem's latest album which is
something like 70+ minutes long and chopped it up into 3 minute chunks
spread out over a zillion 78s! They played a sample of what it sounded like.
It certainly didn't make the album sound any better, sonically or
artistically.
So the US government is making digitally mastered 78s in the name of
preservation. What a crazy world! Future generations can slepp well tonight,
secure in the knowledge that Kelly Clarkson will live forever.
-- Ken Kase
Editor
www.nighttimes.com / Night Times, LLC
On 12/3/04 7:22 PM, "Lee Elliott" <pop@anotherplanet.ca> wrote:
> So true - I hope the people storing the digital master are showing some
> diligence - it's a constant battle to move digital information from the
> soon to be obsolete media to a new one ... the good thing is that the
> new ones are cheaper and faster. A couple times a week I put a 10 or
> 20 cds on the hard drive and hopefully when i fill it up there will be
> a bigger cheaper hard drive to move to...
>
> chasin' my tail ...
>
> np Silver Sun - i got two copies and the second half does not want to
> rip on either ... both crash my windows and mac systems - but only at
> the end on the disc - musta been a weird run
>
> Lee Elliott
> www.anotherplanet.ca
>
>
> On 3-Dec-04, at 3:03 PM, Ken Kase wrote:
>
>> e don't even know how long regular CDs will last. That's a sobering
>> thought. And an increasing amount of material being recorded never
>> travels
>> outside the realm of digital mediums. In other words, albums recorded
>> to
>> analog tape masters will last a long time if properly cared for.
>> Records are
>> the best preservation method because they offer a quasi-mechanical
>> reproduction method (the cut of the grooves). We don't know if music
>> that
>> only ever exists in the digital ether will have a long life span.
>
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