Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by karasinski » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 6:18 AM UTC

mintplant wrote: post #5

Get in touch with the Internet Archive, perhaps? http://archive.org/about/contact.php

Definitely do this. They will host it so that others can access it freely and forever and they'll also make a torrent for it. Just get in touch with somebody who works with the collections or feel free to PM me.

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by jonah » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 6:18 AM UTC

Unrelated but since you're into rare/old/obscure recordings, you might appreciate the Cylinder Recording collection at UCSB.

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by kumar303 » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 6:21 AM UTC

mintplant wrote: post #5

Get in touch with the Internet Archive, perhaps? http://archive.org/about/contact.php

Cool, thanks for the info! Amazon S3 costs are getting high so it would be nice to get some relief

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by kumar303 » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 6:22 AM UTC

olefoo wrote: post #4

You should team up with http://echonest.com/ they have the team and the experience and could probably help you do something cool with it. Given the seed terms; I'm imagining an infinite dub mix, where you pick and mutate beats and fade clips into each other. Too bad our legal system makes such a thing impossible.

Hah. That would last for days on end.

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by kumar303 » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 6:34 AM UTC

the_french wrote: post #9

I think it could provide an interesting way for producers to discover unique and interesting samples to use in their tracks.

It totally would! Licensing is pretty tricky with this sort of thing though. Oftentimes there's some mogul who owns the rights but they won't budge on a price. Then if you use the sample anyway and they'll sue you.

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by kumar303 » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 6:36 AM UTC

Dammit. After posting, I caught up with the feed of clips and just bought six records :( It turns up records like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCC0wgVXNpc Wat??

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by splatzone » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 6:38 AM UTC

Bung them up online so DJs can have em

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by vitno » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 6:55 AM UTC

dmourati wrote: post #8

Find your favorite DJ and send it to them. DJs are always looking for exotic sounds to add to their mixes.

He is a DJ :P

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by mr_timppa » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 7:33 AM UTC

Hi, we are interested in. www.musicinfo.io. Our database is huge and its free to use.

Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?

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Post by neilk » Tue, Dec 03, 2013, 7:38 AM UTC

felipelalli wrote: post #2

Send to Wikimedia.

No, it's better for Archive.org. The Wikimedia Foundation mostly deals with Creative Commons licensed content.