Re: arsclist Digital knowledge preservation

["Mike Loughlin" <mikel78_rpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Steven Smolian" <smolians@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> If it has to be transferred again to give the listener fullest access to 
> the
> audio signal, it is not worth the effort to preserve it long-term in 
> altered
> form. ARSC should not be a party to this.
>
> Steven Smolian
It is not really a question of whether ARSC should be a part of this. It is 
a question of whether the US government, which stores a great collection of 
recordings, should be a part of it. It is which format serves the American 
people the best. That format, without question, is an mp3 file on an 
internet web site. There is no valid reason for ARSC to stand in the way of 
this.

   There is no great challenge to make a re-recording of a cylinder or 
78rpm record in good condition.  They were made to be played by the average 
idiot by the people that recorded and engineered them.

    With a turntable, an amplifier and a CD recorder, any average person 
could be trained to archive the vast majority of commercial recordings in 
the possesion of the US government. Within 6 months time 1,000,000 acoustic 
recordings could be made available on the internet for the world to listen 
to.

   Why not? Because ARSC should not be a party to it?

                                 Mike Loughlin
                                 www.mp3.com/edisonrecords
>


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