Re: arsclist CD access copies

[Jerome Hartke <jhartke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

andy kolovos wrote:
> 
> Ok, well now that we've touched on the topic of CD access copies, I have a
> general question for folks out there who are using CD for access copies of
> audio interviews. If you record an entire interview to CD without adding
> track breaks of any sort, the only way to reach a particular point the
> recording is either to listen to the whole interview until you reach the
> desired point or hold down the "search" button and shuffle through the
> entire recording--assuming, of course, one's listening room CD players even
> have a search button.  This is, unless one inserts track marks on to the
> disc at various intervals or to mark significant points.
> 
> My instinct is to place track marks at timed intervals--lets say every 5 or
> so minutes of a recording--without any silence between them, across the
> duration of the interview.  This would allow a patron to skip ahead a bit
> more quickly than he or she would be able to if they had to hold down the
> search button to do the same thing. If I were to place tracks at
> "significant" points in the interview, I would be the one deciding what was
> "significant"--and I would rather have patrons decide on their own what
> they find significant in or about a particular interview.
> 
> What are those of you out there who are using CD for access to interviews
> doing?  Has anyone discussed a developing a "best practice" in this regard?
> 
> Any thoughts are appreciated.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> andy
> *********************************
> Andy Kolovos
> Archivst/Folklorist
> Vermont Folklife Center

One track can contain up to 99 index points that facilitate access.

Jerry
Media Sciences


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