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Re: Cds
CD/Tape...here's a tidbit about National Public Radio's Fresh Air:
> Most of Gross's interviews are taped and edited down, and as is the
> case in many radio programs, guests are often not in the studio. While
> nearly all other radio programming now use digital recording, Fresh
> Air is still recorded, edited and played on analog reel-to-reel tape.
> However, the program's website announced in 2006 that the aging tapes
> were now deteriorating and that they would soon begin transferring the
> thousands of interviews "to a digital format and indexing them." The
> show usually uses fiber-optic lines to conduct its interviews leading
> to a superior sound quality.
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Air
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gross
Wow, Terry Gross has been there 30 years!
=David
a k butler wrote:
>
>> I've was told by a very prominent ethnomusicologist who I met at Lou
>> Harrison's house that tape is still the prefered media for archival
>> storage.
>
> Smithsonian Folkways are transferring their tapes to digital.
>
> All media have limited life, but the advantage with digital is that
> with care you can
> re-copy every so often without loss.
>
> The advantage of tape is that even without care you still get some
> kind of audio, whereas when digital media degrades you tend to lose
> everything.
>
> andy butler
>
>
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