John Peel tapes, how do we get "in"

[Stefan Lingnau]

A copy from a copy from a copy from ...
IHMO not a good idea

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "bty455834" <k.j.beech@...> wrote:
>
> 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.
> 
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> - 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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