[peel] Re: John Peel tapes, how do we get "in"

[rockerq@...]

> <<and what do we get, short term and long term, those years were my key 
> listening times....... tho        andrew>>
> 
The cassettes will be digitized and made available to the list via free 
download - probably using something like Rapidshare, MegaUpload or YouSendIt.

Of course we don't yet know the quality of the recordings - they may be 
recorded in mono from AM, they may have deteriorated over the 30 odd years or got 
damp etc.

We now need to decide who wants to share the work of ripping them, and also 
what format or formats we use. Consensus so far seems to be that FLAC would be 
a good format both for archiving, and distributing, because it is lossless, 
and can easily be converted to mp3 etc for your own use.

For those tapes that I digitize myself I will probably initially burn them to 
Audio CDr in real time - and then transfer from the CDr to my computer. This 
gives an extra layer of backup, in that the CDr can be archived as well as the 
cassette and the digital file on hard drive. Any opinions as to whether the 
CDr is likely to deteriorate over time in the same way as the cassettes will / 
have / are?

Cheers!

Rocker