Re: [ARSCLIST] Format conundrum

["Steven C. Barr" <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "steven austin" <stevena@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Just a thought:
>
> Does anyone make digital audio copies from their archival sound sources,
> then store the data as code printouts? Cards, paper, whatever?
>
> I would think with digital information technology, we don't really need
> to rely on tape or laser-encoded discs for archival storage when it
> would be so much more efficient to store the information as digital
> code, ready at any time to be translated through software into audio
> sound. A hard copy of the code would avoid the degradation that all
> storage media suffer and always offer a first-generation master of the
> original source recovery, where a CD-R or a tape would be subject to the
> condition of the transport media.
>
> Know what I mean?