I've spent time in both Pittsburgh and Brazil and it brings a tear to my eye to see someone so passionate about music and so much logistical interconnection happening between those two places, it's like a thunderbolt through my former years.
The Brazilian Bus Magnate Who’s Buying Up Vinyl Records
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#12Anybody else into collecting/digitizing large volumes of vinyl from all sorts of strange countries? If so let's talk, my Soulseek username is "freitas62". https://gist.github.com/anonymous/12240984d874d428ef51
This is good work. If you are doing this, thanks.
The parent post is a joke, the article metions the collectors last name is Freitas aged 62
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#13Interesting story, but I wonder if there really is any value in preserving all this stuff? When I read about the efforts to save disappearing websites, I wonder the same thing. Isn't there some value in letting things just disappear, like dead trees rotting in the woods? I used to joke about a paid service that would come to your house and take all your old photos and movies, and throw them out for you...
Data is valuable. To historians it is intrinsically valuable, but it's also instrumentally valuable for machine learning. Even the terrible stuff can inform language models for understanding the good stuff.
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#14My grandfather used to service and collect money from juke boxes, they used 45s in his day. When the song went out of rotation it usually ended up in the trash, however he kept a large number of them. Put them all in similar size boxes so that they stood upright. The interesting part to me was that collectors wanted these not for the songs but for the sleeves.
Vinyl is interesting and for older folks it can take you back to your childhood. I am long past my days of listening to equipment, I want my music as clean as I can get
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#15Interesting story, but I wonder if there really is any value in preserving all this stuff? When I read about the efforts to save disappearing websites, I wonder the same thing. Isn't there some value in letting things just disappear, like dead trees rotting in the woods? I used to joke about a paid service that would come to your house and take all your old photos and movies, and throw them out for you...
For your use cases, perhaps not. But I'm a writer on the Internet, and links are important to things I write; I'm already up to at least 559 links to Internet Archive copies of webpages, and that's with me trying to find live copies of each link and all my writings being fairly recent. Am I glad the IA exists? You betcha.
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#16Interesting story, but I wonder if there really is any value in preserving all this stuff? When I read about the efforts to save disappearing websites, I wonder the same thing. Isn't there some value in letting things just disappear, like dead trees rotting in the woods? I used to joke about a paid service that would come to your house and take all your old photos and movies, and throw them out for you...
Data is valuable. To historians it is intrinsically valuable, but it's also instrumentally valuable for machine learning. Even the terrible stuff can inform language models for understanding the good stuff.
> Even the terrible stuff can inform language models for understanding the good stuff.
The terrible stuff may be used for cutting and scratching. If you scratch the vinyl, it adds character.
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#17Interesting story, but I wonder if there really is any value in preserving all this stuff? When I read about the efforts to save disappearing websites, I wonder the same thing. Isn't there some value in letting things just disappear, like dead trees rotting in the woods? I used to joke about a paid service that would come to your house and take all your old photos and movies, and throw them out for you...
If you'd like your music clean, you would be surprised of how little we have. Take for example dub reaggae. So far I managed to amass 10 albums that are studio quality. There are few hundred tracks that are CD quality. And then there are thousands of MP3 garbage.
Vinyls is the only way to get back to that. Remember, all new music is just samples of old. And there aren't that many good quality samples, so new music is limited to shit quality.
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#18To each his own, but I find this an exercise in futility.
After having 3 collections stolen / destroyed, I will never buy physical CDs or DVDs or vinyl ever again. I don't see the point.
But if it makes him happy, why not.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is good work. If you are doing this, thanks.
The parent post is a joke, the article metions the collectors last name is Freitas aged 62
Well, ya never know sometimes.
Anyone who is serious, I have built a very high quality phono preamp (well-proven prototype) especially for digitizing not only 45's & 33's (which adhere to the RIAA equalization curve), but also 78's (which need compensation, but not as extreme as the later "microgroove" recordings, and there was no standard).
If you could buy one as good I wouldn't have designed mine.
With the right partner, could even be launched as a PONO recorder to complement the upcoming PONO Player.
I'm easy to get in touch with.
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#20Interesting story, but I wonder if there really is any value in preserving all this stuff? When I read about the efforts to save disappearing websites, I wonder the same thing. Isn't there some value in letting things just disappear, like dead trees rotting in the woods? I used to joke about a paid service that would come to your house and take all your old photos and movies, and throw them out for you...
As mentioned in the article, for some countries like Cuba, these records were not digitized and are the only source of the music of an era