Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-19 Thread Jim web
In article 20150518113734.ga21...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: And remember, most recordings are made on media that was cheap at the time. Long-term stability over a period of decades was definitely not a concern of the manufacturers, nor was it a

Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 05:16:03PM +0100, Jim web wrote: In article 20150518113734.ga21...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: So I bought a decent cassette deck, and a few modern commercial recordings just to make sure I had everything working properly.

Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-19 Thread Andrew Fear
On 19/05/2015 12:09, David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 05:16:03PM +0100, Jim web wrote: In article 20150518113734.ga21...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: So I bought a decent cassette deck, and a few modern commercial recordings just to make

Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-19 Thread Jim web
In article 20150519110915.gb13...@bytemark.barnyard.co.uk, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: You may have been unlucky. Possibly. [snip] In this case the tapes are whatever unsigned bands consisting of impoverished students could buy in bulk. So cheap crap made out of swarf and

Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-19 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 20 May 2015 at 6:57, Nick Payne wrote: On 19/05/2015 21:09, David Cantrell wrote: In this case the tapes are whatever unsigned bands consisting of impoverished students could buy in bulk. So cheap crap made out of swarf and brown paint probably. A friend of mine who spent a couple

Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-19 Thread Nick Payne
On 19/05/2015 21:09, David Cantrell wrote: In this case the tapes are whatever unsigned bands consisting of impoverished students could buy in bulk. So cheap crap made out of swarf and brown paint probably. A friend of mine who spent a couple of decades repairing VCRs once said to me: Using

Re: [Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-18 Thread David Cantrell
On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 05:25:35PM +0100, CJB wrote: British Library National Audit of Sound Collections At last someone is thinking of the future - but 15 years for there to be no hardware to play sound recordings seems a tad short ...

[Maybe OT]British Library National Audit of Sound Collections

2015-05-16 Thread CJB
British Library National Audit of Sound Collections At last someone is thinking of the future - but 15 years for there to be no hardware to play sound recordings seems a tad short ... http://missingepisodes.proboards.com/thread/10917/british-library-national-audit-collections Meanwhile the