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

[bty455834]

what about a post and burn ring.
that is one person sends a copy to someone else, they then burn a 
copy to send to someone else etc...they only person who loses out is 
the one who starts the chain

we do that on another site and it works well.





- In peel@yahoogroups.com, RobF <robfleay@...> wrote:
>
> 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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