techy. May I borrow your ears?

[electrophotic]

The thought of my laboriously produced CDRs becoming corrupted 
horrifies me.  It seems like all types of storage media are 
vulnerable to ageing - recording tape becomes fragile and sticky 
after a number of years.

Perhaps the ultimate solution to backing up our valuable music 
archives would be to have them transferred to vinyl!

--- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "thebarguest" <thebarguest@...> wrote:
>
> I must admit, I thought the recent show offerings from
> Kevin Beech (& Julian) and Andthezmore, coded in 128/44 mp3,
> sounded fine, as good as an FM radio broadcast.
> 
> More importantly, I wonder whether some of my dvdrs will get
> corrupted in the same way some of my 4-year-old cdrs have....
> Maybe the dye starts to "leak" in time ; how could the scientists
> simulate ageing when developing a recording medium ?
> Don't throw away your original tapes !
> 
> 
> 
> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, Riving Ton <deedeeramain@> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Adam!
> > 
> > We had a similar thread about compression a short while ago and I 
> think we decided that FLAC was the ultimate compression format as 
it 
> was lossless.
> > 
> > Personally - I use .ogg but I realise that it is getting kind of 
> redundant because nobody else finds it convenient plus - I use 
> dbpoweramp also and some of my ripped CDs don't sound right - the 
> bass on some of my files is muffled and really poor quality. 
> > 
> > Finally, memory is getting cheaper and cheaper so compression is 
> becoming less necessary as time goes by. I can see a short time 
ahead 
> in future that I'll want to just copy my CDs directly to a storage 
> medium without any compression.
> > 
> > I normally buy hard drives in twos - one is a backup of the 
other. 
> Hard drives fail and new hard drives are no exception so I'd be 
> gutted if I spent lots of time ripping my CDs to hard drive to have 
> the hard drive fail after a couple of months. (This happened to me 
> with a 120GB pocket drive. The clicking noise signalled a failed 
disk 
> that would cost around a grand if I wanted to recover my data!).
> > Don't forget that DVDs are not indestructible also!
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > DeeDee
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: lollygagger <lollygagger@>
> > To: peel@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 7:55:19 PM
> > Subject: [peel] re: techy. May I borrow your ears?
> > 
> > Hi All
> >  
> > May I borrow your ears?
> >  
> > I'm back to archiving my Peely & assorted tapes to hard drive and 
> dvd's  (4 c90's to a dvd) 
> >  
> > Its going to be about 130 dvd's and two large hard drives before 
I 
> have finished but I am looking to make a back up archive copy I can 
> leave with a family member.
> >  
> > I have been looking at compression encoders to bring my music 
data 
> to 1:4 so that my entire collection can be copied to 30 dvd's. Flac 
> gives a ratio of 1:2. WMA and MP3 at 320kbs appear to lose the 
> original dynamic sound.
> >  
> > I have personally found that by using the dbpoweramp prog with 
OGG 
> at 350kbs giving the 1:4 that there doesn't appear to be any 
> difference from the original.
> >  
> > Can anyone else confirm that OGG gives the best performance for 
> compressed music?
> >  
> > Your ears and opinions would be useful (Keeping in mind that OGG 
> would be used as an archived copy and not for a typical player)
> >  
> > Adam
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
> >  
> > 
> > 
> >       
> 
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