.... on an external Hard Drive.
Some 20 years ago, I decided to put all of my disks and those of my late brother in law onto CDs for safe keeping.
I used an editing system (Magix Audio Labs in my case) to clean up scratches, tape hiss, and generally to enhance those treasued memories.
So, looking at my shelves of CDs last week, I decided to preserve those memories going right back to my childhood of such great artists as Heddle Nash, Norman Allin, Dame Clara Butt, Webster Booth, Peter Dawson, Gracie Fields, Fodens Motor Works and other great Brass bands, featuring such as the great Harry Mortimer - and then started on my inherited collection of Jazz and swing 78s ranging from the twenties, thirties, right up to the arrival of "progressive Jazz" - as epitomised by the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Dexter Gordon.
I recorded much classical music off air from Radio 3 including live performances by many orchestras featured in the Proms over the past twenty years and also chamber music and recitals by newly discovered artists.
I started a collection of commercially produced CDs and copied my disks and cassettes onto writable disks.
So, over 300 CDs on my shelves, of which the majority were "home made" on those easily obtained blank discs.
But, running a few the other day, I discovered that the commercially produced disks sounded as good as new, there was much distortion on the home-made products.
So I have purchased an external hard drive with a capacity of 1 terrabyte (1,000 Cicabytes) and am working my way through putting everything that I have on my shelves onto that hard disk , rescuing what I can in the process. and keeping that drive only for music in the form of wave files.
I shall expand on my findings later.
In the meantime, Happy Easter, everybody!
HS
Some 20 years ago, I decided to put all of my disks and those of my late brother in law onto CDs for safe keeping.
I used an editing system (Magix Audio Labs in my case) to clean up scratches, tape hiss, and generally to enhance those treasued memories.
So, looking at my shelves of CDs last week, I decided to preserve those memories going right back to my childhood of such great artists as Heddle Nash, Norman Allin, Dame Clara Butt, Webster Booth, Peter Dawson, Gracie Fields, Fodens Motor Works and other great Brass bands, featuring such as the great Harry Mortimer - and then started on my inherited collection of Jazz and swing 78s ranging from the twenties, thirties, right up to the arrival of "progressive Jazz" - as epitomised by the likes of Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Dexter Gordon.
I recorded much classical music off air from Radio 3 including live performances by many orchestras featured in the Proms over the past twenty years and also chamber music and recitals by newly discovered artists.
I started a collection of commercially produced CDs and copied my disks and cassettes onto writable disks.
So, over 300 CDs on my shelves, of which the majority were "home made" on those easily obtained blank discs.
But, running a few the other day, I discovered that the commercially produced disks sounded as good as new, there was much distortion on the home-made products.
So I have purchased an external hard drive with a capacity of 1 terrabyte (1,000 Cicabytes) and am working my way through putting everything that I have on my shelves onto that hard disk , rescuing what I can in the process. and keeping that drive only for music in the form of wave files.
I shall expand on my findings later.
In the meantime, Happy Easter, everybody!
HS
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