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."

Firsssssssst Posssssssst

[Harmonious Botch]

Cue the purists saying: "But it is supposed to have hiss. That's part of its character."

Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst

[r_jensen11]

Cue the purists saying: "But it is supposed to have hiss. That's part of its character."

Is that before or after they yell at him for not storing as .wav or .flac?

Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst

[The Ancients]

Cue the purists saying: "But it is supposed to have hiss. That's part of its character."

So you're saying they'd throw a hissy fit?

Digitizing rare vinyl

[Anonymous Coward]

Here is how NOT [youtube.com] to digitize 33's

Other archival projects

[the eric conspiracy]

The Library of Congress has an archival project:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1216161 [npr.org]

This is going the other way - from digital to 78's. Shellac 78's appear to be the best archival format.

Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst

[NothingMore]

Purest wouldn't know, they wouldn't listen to it in the first place because its an MP3. There moto is if it isn't FLAC or better, it isn't worth listening to.

Re:poor server

[Hal_Porter]

Particularly as undead lawyers for the artists will now attack him, like in The Fog.

Re:The alternative is nothing.

[kimvette]

I was going to make a hissstorical pun but that's pointless.

Pointless perhaps, but hissterical nonetheless.

Re:78's, 16's...

[Anonymous Coward]

Dead people shouldn't be talking - it's quite rude.

So is walking on graves, now get off my lawn!

CDDB

[CranberryKing]

You mean he doesn't have the CDDB plugin for his KLH turntable? Seriously, none of the files have any ID3 tags. He's also using an ACCESS database. I think the archive gods are displeased with this one.

Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst

[Luke the Obscure]

Cue the purists...

That's my cue!

Oh wait... You're making fun of me.

Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst

[dontmakemethink]

Cue the purists saying: "But it is supposed to have hiss. That's part of its character."

Is that before or after they yell at him for not storing as .wav or .flac?

50 years from now they'll say, "It's supposed to have compression artifacts. It garbles the hiss to signify the archaic bandwidth and storage capacity."

Actually they'll just think it, and their Facebook status will automatically update.

Re:Excluding Apple

[interstellar_donkey]

Because Apple hates you and wants you to suffer.

Re:Firsssssssst Posssssssst

[interstellar_donkey]

Yes, but without the up-modding of the post, would we really know how fucking awesome it really is?