On 1/10/24 10:13, joe a wrote:
I agree that digitizing vinyl and whatever 78's were made out of can be a fun hobby. But I wonder why one would want to do it if not just for the technological joy. Is it to save the music? I'd argue that just about anything found on old records has already been digitized and is available on Youtube. Maybe one would want to preserve the scratches, clicks, wow, flutter, and grove-carving distortion? Just wondering.
Regards, Lew
I'd be a bit astonished if many, or any, of these are already digitized.
Mostly they are of "sentimental value" (bah! Humbug!), as they belonged to a grandparents siblings. They are in their native language as I recall.
Ah, non-English content might be a problem. But I've been surprised about what can be found on Youtube. For example, I found a single by the Jamies, "Summertime Summertime" which came out in 1958. Youtube even had the flip side. Another one is Gogi Grant's "The Wayward Wind" released in 1956. It has the flip side of that one too! One version on Youtube even has the clicks/noise left in. Others have been de-clicked. I had a friend maybe 20-years ago who started a small business to digitize records. He developed an algorithm to remove clicks from digitized record tracks. I bet something like Audacity would do that today. Of course, some might want the clicks/static left in. I don't know if anyone wants wow/flutter though. I remember obsessing about media-induced distortion/noise in music. CD's were a godsend! Now there are flac files! Kids these days don't know what Real Life was like! Regards, Lew