[peel] Re: We've only just begun.

[Alan Ford]

Can I just venture an observation about 'lossless' formats?
Most of our shows come from FM radio broadcasts with varying reception
quality, are taped onto C90's of varying quality, left in the attic for 20
years, ripped to FLAC files by people who don't their azimuth from their
elbow (ie me), then converted to MP3.
I don't know how much is 'lost' between FLAC and MP3, but I'm guessing not
as much as has already been lost.
Having said that - of course I have kept the FLACs for all my rips, and the
tapes are safely back in the attic.

Cheers

Alan


On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:33 PM, ken <ken_garner@...> wrote:

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> Bill
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> According to data i compiled for my conference paper last summer - which I
> must get round to updating and writing up this autumn, now I have at last
> completed two other more pressing scholarly bits on unrelated subjects - I
> made the key numbers as follows, and the last one is almost certainly no
> longer correct:
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> Total number of regular Peel R1 shows aired 1967-2004: 5,651
> Total number of shows in BBC Digital Archive, including listener donations:
> 1,312 (23%)
> Total number of shows taped by the British Library: approx 1,400 (25%)
> Total number of shows restored by listeners and available (illegally)
> online: 1475 (26%)
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> I could not prove this, but my hunch there is some crossover, but less than
> half, in each of the archive collection sources.
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> When we started on the 400 project we agreed that at conclusion we would
> present the BBC archive with the complete project, lossless , on disc.
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> When we do that, they will probably ask if we have anything else!
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> The BBC Archives are very happy to get stuff from us restored from off-air,
> in lossless form, by the way, I have that from (very near) the top
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> ken
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> --- In peel@yahoogroups.com, "billfromnorthwales" <billfromnorthwales@...>
> wrote:
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> > I was looking with some sense of pride at my Peel Folder HERE
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> http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/BillfromNorthWales/01%20John%20Peel/\
>  <http://www.peel.mooo.com/peelgroup/BillfromNorthWales/01%20John%20Peel/>>
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> > At least one show from every year (except '71 and '72) including the
> > first Radio 1 show as Smashy and Nicey with Pete Drummond in 1967 and
> > the poignant last show in 2004.
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> > I think I made some sort of small tweak or full rip of the files to end
> > up there
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> > Only possible with the great support from Branko for providing the
> > server, so thank you Branko. Have we filled it up now?
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> > That's how one day I imagined it would be, with a list of the thousands
> > of shows from all linked to the Wiki.
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> > I wonder do the BBC archives department have any interest in what we are
> > doing here? Or are they only interested in lost Dad's Army episodes?
> >
> > What are we now..5%...10% the way through?
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