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14 votes
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Millions of research papers at risk of disappearing from the Internet: An analysis of DOIs suggests that digital preservation is not keeping up with burgeoning scholarly knowledge
26 votes -
Packages seized by the Royal Navy from a Faroese cargo ship bound for Denmark during the Napoleonic Wars opened – previously hidden away in the National Archives
9 votes -
Google’s retiring of Internet archiving tool draws ire of China researchers
18 votes -
An archive of Wikipedia from Thursday, December 20, 2001
18 votes -
The ambitious plan to open up a treasure trove of Black history
8 votes -
archive.org went down today
21 votes -
Internet Archive’s Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications has grown to more than 90,000 resources related to amateur radio, shortwave listening, amateur television, and related topics
29 votes -
The pirate preservationists - a long history
20 votes -
Lunar Codex: Digitised works of 30,000 artists to be archived on moon
15 votes -
Thousands of Yiddish pulp fiction stories finally seeing the light of day
15 votes -
Permanent archival formats. Do they exist?
Recently, I've been thinking pretty hard about how to archive data. Optical media is out, due to my (possibly irrational?) fear of disc rot. HDDs just break with extended use, SSDs have been known...
Recently, I've been thinking pretty hard about how to archive data. Optical media is out, due to my (possibly irrational?) fear of disc rot. HDDs just break with extended use, SSDs have been known to die with either overuse or just existing for an extended period of time. What's left?
I have heard of tape (of some kind) being used for backup in some bigger operations, but with my experieces with VHS, and to a lesser extent, cassettes, they seem to be very susceptible to mould.
Any suggestions?
30 votes -
Where to find digitalized illustrations from the past such as these?
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News Music Search Archive
3 votes -
r/DataHoarder project to archive reddit before the API changes (link to request a copy of your personal data in comments)
21 votes -
The Digital Transportation Archive
7 votes -
DLARC Radio Library surpasses 75,000 items of ham radio, shortwave history
2 votes -
The Internet Archive just put 565 Palm Pilot apps in your web browser
12 votes -
Twilight of the libraries: What gets lost when books go off-site and online
4 votes -
Europeana contains over ten million digitalised artifacts from across Europe
8 votes -
Rosa Parks' Stanford press conference recording now accessible online
5 votes -
The Internet Archive is now emulating Flash animations, games and toys in their software collection
20 votes -
2.1 million of the oldest internet posts are now online for anyone to read
14 votes -
In a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, the largest corporations in publishing want to change what it means to own a book
26 votes -
The digital archives of the oldest Black newspaper in America show a long struggle for justice
5 votes -
The National Library of Scotland has digitized the first eight editions of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, issued between 1768 and 1860
10 votes -
The Internet Archive is digitising & preserving over 100,000 vinyl records: Hear 750 full albums now.
8 votes -
Better World Books and the Internet Archive unite to preserve millions of books
8 votes -
Digitizing objects from Smithsonian's enormous collection
3 votes -
The internet is rotting – let’s embrace it
15 votes -
Archivists race to digitize slavery records before the history is lost
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I'm downsizing my digital life. Do you listen to a lot of music? How do you archive it?
I'm downsizing my digital life. I deleted my account on reddit, on another phpbb forum and i don't have instagram/facebook apps anymore. This subject got me thinking about my music. I grab/buy...
I'm downsizing my digital life. I deleted my account on reddit, on another phpbb forum and i don't have instagram/facebook apps anymore.
This subject got me thinking about my music.
I grab/buy albums in mp3 and i have so many that it's impossible to listen to everything. I don't pay for any service like spotify because i don't like. I prefer to download and/or buy in places like bandcamp where i can download the album.
I started reading about other codecs like flac and opus. The availability of albums in flac are way less than mp3 and it's a lossless format. If i focus on it i will be forced to downsize my music library.
The problem is disk space in my smartphone. I'm not an audiophile so i'm not able to hear the difference between flac and 320kpbs mp3. This is where opus enters. This codec gives half the size with better quality than mp3. Soundcloud uses it. A 96kbps opus is the same quality as 320kbps mp3.
Now that Android can play opus i don't see a reason to keep using mp3. The downside is converting flac files every time i want to put on my phone.
I could just convert flac to opus and just live with opus everywhere, freeing a lot of space. But i think keeping flac files is better for archiving because it's lossless. If opus for some reason disappears, i'll have a lossy format and would have convert to another one losing more quality.
How do you deal with music?
26 votes