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| From | Ken Kase <kenkase@nighttimes.com> |
| Subject | Re: CD-Writer and Audio CDs question |
| Date | Sat, 04 Dec 2004 03:04:06 -0600 |
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Also, the Department of Defense created the E Bomb, a weapon that erases
electronic media. All we need is some nut job to get a hold of one of those
and poof! No more Partridge Family rips! I hope the RIAA doesn't get one...
-- 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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