Recommendations for archiving audio tapes

From: Jason McBrien <jbmcb_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Mon Oct 20 11:25:22 2003

You could store them in FLAC or WavPack, both open source and free lossless
audio codecs for archival purposes. If you do a good job on cleaning up the
noise/hiss from the tapes, they can get you 2:1 compression. Not a whole
lot, but half as big is better than nothing.

MP3 has become the defacto standard for transmission, although RealAudio and
ogg/vorbis tend to do better at very low (Re: smaller) bitrates.

----- Original Message -----
From: "John A. Dundas III" <dundas_at_caltech.edu>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:10 AM
Subject: Recommendations for archiving audio tapes


> I have a number of old DECUS U.S. Symposium audio tapes that I would
> like to archive before they completely disintegrate. I have a way to
> digitize these and store them in a variety of formats. I'm not sure
> what format is best for archive and distribution, though I assume
> something like WAV or AIFF for archive and MP3 for distribution. I
> have no prior experience at this and would appreciate any suggestions
> on the best approach.
>
> Also suggestions on who to contact to make these archives legally
> available on the web would be welcome.
>
> Is anyone else archiving these?
>
> As a teaser, here's what I have:
>
> 1987 Fall:
> N008 Understanding Ethernet
> N037 Cryptographic Security for Ethernet
> DA054 Optimizing VMS device Drivers for Realtime I/O
> V104 Tape 1 VAX Magic, War Stories, and Horror Tales
> V104 Tape 2
>
> 1988 Fall:
> PC031 Internal Enhancements to AppleTalk for VMS
> NE050 An Introduction to the Digital's Distributed Name Service (DNS)
> GR054 Renderman: A 3D Scene Description Interface for Computer
> Graphics System
> GR033F Computer Graphic and Visualization
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
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