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Hans Wolters
Hans Wolters
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Drew McCarthy

For The Record

Finally! I'm making progress on digitizing my vinyl. First step was doing various maintenance/repair things to my Technics 1200-Mk2 turntable. Next was rescuing the collection itself from less than desirable storage conditions. Only lost about a dozen to that. Next was experimenting with various digitizing solutions. I finally settled on a Tascam digital recorder, using the late Brian Davies' ClickRepair, and editing with Felt Tip's Sound Studio. Have gotten good results. Even better, I've found a local record shop with a HumminGuru Ultrasonic Record Cleaner, and it works a treat.

There are still more than a few LPs that I have that never made it to CD, so they'll be the first to get the treatment. I imagine I'll spend a little time doing some A/B comparisons between vinyl and CD. I'm no longer as hard core an audiophile as I used to be, at least partly because my golden ears have aged out a bit, and also because I spent enough time behind the curtain of how the product was made to understand the limits of what gear can and can't do.

It's kind of amazing to be reminded how much effort went into record sleeves and liner notes. It just doesn't translate when rendered to jewel box size, especially to older eyes. Ha! LPs have become the new Large Print Books!

I poked around to see if there was software that would make cataloging all this any easier, and am discovering that most of the stuff I looked at even five years ago has gone away. Wil Shipley has gone on to Apple, and Conor Dearden has recently stepped back from his **pedia applications to spend more time with his family. A consequence of the market shifting to streaming is that fewer people have physical collections to manage.

The software business is fickle, I tell you. I got lucky with Brian Davies' ClickRepair, as I had installers and license stashed away. His work was apparently sold to someone who doesn't want to put it on the market again. I imagine it might be a competitor. His software is that good, and was inexpensive compared to iZotope.

Another thing I'm going to take a stab at is using Shazam to try to identify some tunes on old mixtapes I have that didn't have complete listings. I've stumped it a few times, to be sure, but it came up with correct answers on some that I did not expect it to know. Technology can be great, when it works, and before it gets enshittified.

#music #vinyl #Technics #Tascam #MacOS #software

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memo@pod.mv2k.com
Memo

â‰Ș "Lennon Day" plus ≫

  • John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band – Shaved Fish 1975
  • John Lennon – Mind Games 1981
  • Vangelis – Greatest Hits 1986

Gewaschen liegen die „neuen“ Scheiben auf neuen InnenhĂŒllen. Nach dem Trocknen bekommen die PlattenhĂŒllen ebenfalls noch neue SchutzhĂŒllen 😀

(Bildbeschreibung: Die Plattencover und die frisch gewaschenen Schallplatten »John Lennon, Plastic Ono Band – Shaved Fish«, »John Lennon – Mind Games« und »Vangelis – Greatest Hit« liegen zum Trocknen auf dem Boden.)

#vinyl #plattenspieler #turntable #musik #music

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Danie

What’s the Value of 3 Million LPs in a Digital World? Easy! They can be Played still in 50+ Years’ Time!

Tall library shelfves that show vinyl records stacked on the shelves. A man is seen walking between the rows of shelves.
The ARChive of Contemporary Music has one of the largest collections of vinyl records in the world and is in danger of losing its home. Its champions are making a case for the future of physical media.

If someplace like a university starts a digitization program for someone’s papers or recorded work, they might end that work when a grant or allotted funds run out. At that point, George says, you have to worry about not just where that material goes, but also how you might be able to play it in the future.

Vinyl records are likely to always be playable, but as tech companies come and go, access to a lot of digital archives can feel precarious. “We joke with the people at the Internet Archive about who’s going to last longer, and we’re all pretty sure it’s us,” George quips. “If you’ve got a bicycle wheel, a rubber band, a bundle of sewing needles, and a cone of paper, you’ll always be able to play an LP, but you can’t make a chip at home.”

The ARC has given itself until Valentine’s Day to come up with the additional funds it needs for a new space. Though no one has come through yet, the group has solicited everyone from Quincy Jones to Discogs. “There’s interest, but no one’s actually said yes,” George says.

This is also where copyright, which some love to invoke to protect rights, may end up losing us a lot of the music that is created today. Digital needs to be backed up, transformed, replicated elsewhere, etc continuously to protect it. Just look at the flak that Google had around scanning of books. And even Google loses interest at some point, and that repository of creative works is gone in the blink of an eye. Storage space costs money in the long term, whether physical or digital, but I’d venture to say digital can cost more with its required refreshing, transforming to new types of mediums (storage and players), backups, etc.

Digital represents here-and-now convenience, but it is really not an effective long-term archive for mass storage of creative works.

Our generation probably needs to lose a large amount of its memories before the world wakes up to the fact that digital photos, books, music, etc are risky to keep in digital only format for long term archiving. That encrypted hard drive at home sounds like a great thing for its owner to have, but what does it mean to that person’s children or grandchildren one day when it is inaccessible and holds the family photos, recipes, scanned documents, etc which can never be accessed by anyone?

See https://www.wired.com/story/archive-of-contemporary-music-save-3-million-records-digital-streaming/
#Blog, #archiving, #music, #technology, #vinyl

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