― js (honestengine), Monday, 5 September 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 September 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)
― js (honestengine), Monday, 5 September 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 5 September 2005 19:44 (twenty years ago)
Wow, comedy has progressed a bit, hasn't it? (Link is a .wav file from 1923. Um, you know what I mean.)
― OleM (OleM), Monday, 5 September 2005 22:30 (twenty years ago)
seems like good news: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/10/arts/music/10masters.html/partner/rssnyt?_r=1
― tylerw, Monday, 10 January 2011 16:37 (fifteen years ago)
Cool. I know some folks at the LOC in DC. I may ask 'em about this--although it sounds like alot of the material is just out at that LOC storage facility in West VA.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 10 January 2011 16:47 (fifteen years ago)
Damn good news I'd say!
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 10 January 2011 16:51 (fifteen years ago)
“The thinking behind this is that we have a very complementary relationship,” said Vinnie Freda, executive vice president for digital logistics and business services at Universal Music Logistics. “I’ve been trying to figure out a way to economically preserve these masters in a digital format, and the library is interested in making historically important material available. So they will preserve the physical masters for us and make them available to academics and anyone who goes to the library, and Universal retains the right to commercially exploit the masters.”
Translation: It's costing us a bundle to store this shit
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 January 2011 16:51 (fifteen years ago)
ha yeah. i liked cuscuna's dig: "Having lived in the vaults for many years,” he added, he is aware that “there has been a lot of attrition” to the archives of major labels because of “stupid decisions, acts of nature, and material that has been lost, stolen, or never saved,” so a transfer to the Library of Congress is theoretically welcome."
― tylerw, Monday, 10 January 2011 16:52 (fifteen years ago)
Hmmmm:
As part of the Library of Congress, this trove is available to anyone, free. But because of the complexities of copyright law, access is restricted to the library's reading rooms in Washington and Culpeper. Library officials, however, are poised to unveil a new program that will significantly expand public access to a big chunk of the library's goods, even if it won't provide carte blanche availability to everything stored there. A news conference is scheduled for Tuesday to announce the details.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 May 2011 21:14 (fourteen years ago)
"I love to give the example that the cylinder from 1900 may be easier to play back than the DAT [digital audiotape] from 2001," sound curator Barton said. "Seriously. There are a lot of DATs that just won't play now."
The most enduring formats? Not CDs or MP3 digital files.
"Vinyl discs properly stored will last hundreds of years," Miller said. "Shellac too."
― scott seward, Saturday, 7 May 2011 21:34 (fourteen years ago)
The T. Bone Burnett bit was funny.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 7 May 2011 21:37 (fourteen years ago)