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

[Alasdair Macdonald]

Not an issue with losslessly compressed files with checksums.

2008/7/19 Stefan Lingnau <belphegore@...>:
> 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