Hi Klas, I am a new member and have been spending time just lurking and
learning...but, I'm an IT professional (retired) and and elec. engineer.
I think Dominique is thinking correctly. Keep the sounds in digital
format, back them up on CD or DVD, but years from now if a newer format
is emerging as a new standard you can convert your files to the new
format....hopfully without much/any distortion. You might also consider
saving them on an audio CD because many years from now I suspect there
will be audio enthusists that will be listening to audio on "ancient
CDs" just like they are now listening to the old 45's and 33's. I know
I have a collection of old 45's I saved from when I was a teenager in
the 50's and have saved an old turntable to listen to them on.
Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Dominique Laloux
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 5:14 AM
To:
Subject: RE: [Nature Recordists] Everlasting recordings?
Hi Klas,
Probably a binary file stored on one or several computers !
No magnetic device seems to be the answer, except if you are able to
transfer the data without any loss (I doubt if that is possible ?) onto
a new tape every few years (5 years ? 10 years ?).=20
The advantage of computer stored files is that you may even consider
transferring them to new media when these become available. Today : a
CD-ROM; tomorrow, a DVD; what in 20 years from now ?
DL
-----Original Message-----
From: Klas Strandberg
Sent: 25 July 2003 11:39
To:
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Everlasting recordings?
Speaking about magntic tapes:
A few years ago I planned to make dummy head stereo recordings of common
sounds in Sweden, everything from an old type-writer (still used,
rarely) to a Ford 1962 V8 engine. I planned to make recordings of the
sounds of industries which soon will be gone, etc.
The idea was born when I once fantasized over "suppose I could hear
recordings of the daily life, made 200 years ago?" Why not give future
people such options? Hearing recordings, as "true to life" as possible,
just as "if you were there" in the middle of a 1999 Stockholm traffic
junction! For example.
When I planned this, I made several calls to "sound people" who "ALL"
made the remark that "perhaps only 50 years from now - nobody can play a
CD!"
"All" of them favoured the 1/4 inch magnetic tape, as they said: "Even
500 years from now, we (people) will be able to understand and
manufacture a machine which can replay such tapes."
So, folks - for an "everlasting" format, what would you recommend today?
Klas.
Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
Phone & fax int + 295 310 01
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