File Not Found: The Record Industry's Digital Storage Crisis

F1nut
F1nut Posts: 50,731
edited December 2010 in Music & Movies
With the recent thread about DSD downloads and computer/server based sources, I thought this article might be of interest.

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/17389/239965

The future isn't looking as bright as some might lead you to think.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited December 2010
    I wouldn't think any digital format today is safe down the road, so saving music I would think analog is the only way to save it.

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  • hearingimpared
    hearingimpared Posts: 21,136
    edited December 2010
    Very interesting and quite scary!
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  • Knucklehead
    Knucklehead Posts: 3,602
    edited December 2010
    Interesting, In the future the LOC will turn to the collector for vintage music recordings. How ironic.
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  • vc69
    vc69 Posts: 2,500
    edited December 2010
    Good post. File management is a huge problem in my world (I.T.). These kinds of problems exist across the digital domain. Poor backup policy. End users (in this case, engineers and archivists) are responsible for making the proper duplicates and storing them in separate locations, etc. Unfortunately, that really wasn't well understood in the early days of digital.

    Keep in mind though, that all of those problems are due to human error, not an inherent problem with digital format.

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  • BlueFox
    BlueFox Posts: 15,251
    edited December 2010
    Move on. Nothing new here. The audio and movie industry have been telling us for years how the analog tapes are deteriorating, and being lost. It is infinitely easier to backup digital data than analog data. Of course, if you lose it then that is the operator's fault, not the medium.
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 50,731
    edited December 2010
    It is infinitely easier to backup digital data than analog data.

    Easier yes, but not good enough it seems.
    EMI and Universal, immediately convert files of new albums onto systems like Linear Tape-Open (LTO), a heavy-duty digital-tape format used by banks to back up their data, and store the tapes in vaults around the country.
    Political Correctness'.........defined

    "A doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a t-u-r-d by the clean end."

    President of Club Polk

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  • dkg999
    dkg999 Posts: 5,647
    edited December 2010
    vinyl albums were supposed to last how long?
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,195
    edited December 2010
    Well now, isn't that interesting....
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • TrashyTrucker
    TrashyTrucker Posts: 225
    edited December 2010
    Good read... Makes one think. I have always said "it" cant happen, untill "it" did. And I now make copys.
    Thanks Jesse. And Merry Christmas,

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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited December 2010
    anonymouse wrote: »
    what do you expect from the recording industry other than spreading fear about the technology that is destroying their dying economic model?
    +1...
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  • dorokusai
    dorokusai Posts: 25,577
    edited December 2010
    Yeah, 100% crap.
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited December 2010
    Very interesting read, Jesse. Thanks for posting it.

    This goes in hand with what I've been saying for a long time.

    I've recently somewhat embraced the digital age finally, and begun to download music...but it'll still never be a substitute for real CD's or vinyl to me. The only music that I've even downloaded so far though, has been live Grateful Dead shows that aren't available on official releases...and I doubt that my downloading will ever extend much beyond that realm.
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  • ben62670
    ben62670 Posts: 15,969
    edited December 2010
    Boring. If you believe that digital and it's backups will sudden disappear you should lay off the kool-aid.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,195
    edited December 2010
    The Library of Congress doesn't seem like they would need to lay off the Kool-aid. If there ever was an authority on preservation, they would be it.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited December 2010
    A U.S. federal agency that is incompetent, and inefficient?

    I'm shocked:eek:



    :rolleyes:
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,195
    edited December 2010
    While I can not comment on their efficiency......I can say with complete certainty that entire data, data transfer, and media preservation industries are guided by the Library of Congress. Whether it's on film, paper, photos, microfiche or discs matters not.

    The R&D process they have for medium preservation is mind boggling. They have actually shown and proved that some of the discs we listen too everyday can and will deteriorate over time. Somewhere deep in the depths of this forum is a video that shows exactly how this happens.
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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