Re: [ARSCLIST] Podcasting--explained a bit...

[steven c <stevenc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Dave Bradley" <db65@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >1) I can think about converting 78 sound to .wav files...but not 
> >until I can afford a new(ish) computer...mainly one with a couple of 
> >500GB hard drives for archival storage! Curently, I'm working with a 
> >single 80GB drive and that would fill up rapidly with .wav files of 
> >any quality.
> 
> That's over 2,500 songs at 3 minutes each at CD resolution.  Are you 
> sure you really need a pair of 500 GB drives for the wav storage?
> 
My half-vast shellac archives contain over 40,000 phonorecords...or
about 80,000 songs...
> >so if I scratched up the gazillion or so dollars to get state of the 
> >art hardware to play my shellac ephemera, and state of the art 
> >software to make them sound like they had been recorded a few days 
> >ago...I probably couldn't hear the durned difference!
> 
> But since you're talking about making a program out of them that 
> others can listen to, should you assume we are all also as deaf as 
> you state you are?
> 
No...but MP3's and "podcasting" have become the standard form of
accessing recorded music these days! Of course, this may be because
21st century music is so bad one can't tell if it's badly recorded?
However, my 78's are also "badly recorded" by modern standards. In
fact, extending the bandwidth up to 16 KHz would only provide more
shellac noise...

Steven C. Barr