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

[RobF]

I estimate 400 tapes (c90's?) ripped to flac will be nearly 200gb - that's a long long time spent uploading if your ISP upload rates are as slow as mine!!


> 
> From: rockerq@...
> Date: 2008/07/19 Sat PM 03:35:00 GMT
> To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [peel] Re: John Peel tapes, how do we get "in"
> 
> > <<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   
> 
> 

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