RTP-area local music and culture

["Ben Donnelly" <bendonnelly AT gmail.com>]

There's a general principle that the denser the storage, the weaker
the archive. A shellac disc breaks, and you can glue it back together
and recover the sound, give or take some extra pops. When Venice
flooded, they just hung out those sheepskin codexes to dry, a feature
which hasn't be worked into the FLAC codex.



On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:48 PM, ethan AT ibiblio.org <ethan AT ibiblio.org> wrote:
> For sheer longevity at a low cost, though, you can't beat vinyl or
>  shellac discs.  In general, the cost of digital preservation is many
>  times higher than that of analog preservation -- for a Hollywood
>  feature film the cost of analog (salt mine) storage and preservation
>  is ~ $1500/year -- but for a digital feature the annual cost of
>  preservation is more than $220,000/year.  Most digital features are
>  actually transferred to film for long-term storage.
>
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