From the Gay to the Roaring
Thanks to an article in today's New York Times, the Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project at beautiful UC Santa Barbara is about to receive a well-deserved influx of new visitors. The Project is a treasure trove of great old pop tunes from the Gay Nineties to the Roaring Twenties, carefully recorded from the original cylinders, and almost all of it is freely downloadable and streamable. (One criticism: They really ought to offer the files in FLAC format instead of WAV; it would save everybody time and bandwidth.)
A word of warning, though: Approach the archive with care. Once you pop, you can't stop.
posted by Detlef at 9:19 PM permalink
1 Comments:
It's a shame they aren't taking into consideration the bandwidth issues on the visitor's end that stem from their use of wavs. Flacs could probably cut bandwidth load by half for their users. Converting to flac is so easy. I'm afraid they know not what they do - I've got a great broadband connection and I'm not willing to waste half my bandwidth on wavs just because those turkeys can't get their act together and make flacs. There's no compelling argument behind their decision.
5:37 AM
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