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??
mate, I think there is good reason this particular record is rare... :p
Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
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Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
#22Put it all up on hearo.fm!
Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
#23Dammit. 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??
Dammit. After listening, currently on repeat.
Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
#24Soundcloud, please.
Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
#25Sound clips are priceless for music producers if they are in a good format (320 kbps mp3 or lossless). Well, if they have no license which prohibits their usage. But music producers are not really "careful" about this, haha.
Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
#26Get 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?
#27Have you checked to see if they're on http://what.cd already? It's the de-facto bittorrent tracker for music. It is possible that many of those clips you have are already on there.
And if not, you could seed them yourself :D
Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
#28You 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.
I second contacting them. They hope to build a more expansive public data base of song metrics but need the community to help contribute http://echoprint.me/data -- your collection would add 0.5x the number of tracks. Though probably not the type of stuff people will be using Over The Air detection for but still, worth while to support their effort. Considering what you have I would think/hope that they would be happy to ingest the data with little work required from you. On the other hand they may tell you due to the antique nature of your collection that they would rather not "pollute" the DB since OTA detection often comes with false positive issues.
Re: Ask HN: I have 89,830 sound clips of rare records. What should I do?
#29Why not open source and share with the world. You can wack an amount of advertising on the site and make some nice income. Obviously just be careful of copyright.