Gianni Pavan wrote:
>I think the best would be to have both compressed cuts for fast
>access and browsing and longer uncompressed files for those really
>interested in top quality sounds to be used for fun or for teaching.
>I often download sound cuts for my personal collection and I often
>use them for teaching.
I believe the Internet Archive allows storing files in multiple
formats. Here's one that Greg Weddig has put up:
http://www.archive.org/details/GodwitDaysExcerpt2005
>I would suggest to all recordists that publish
>sound cuts on the web to provide a downloadable short text or pdf
>file with the same namme of the audio file with all the required info
>about the sound: where, when, the environment, the equipment, etc.
Now that the mechanics of recording has become so simple and reliable
(Not to say that being in the right place at the right time is simple
at all!), IMHO the technical challenge of the 21st century is
integrating metadata into recordings. All that data has got to be -in
the file- in order to be reliably preserved and transmitted. There's
a good example in the camera data that is now effortlessly carried in
.jpg photos.
If GPS can be in a cell phone, it can be in a recorder!
-Dan Dugan
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