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Tag Archives: digitization
The obsolescence of family photo albums
Ah, the family photo albums! Those archivists of activities, those precious nuggets of nostalgia, those reminders of bad haircuts and even worse fashion sense that were cause for much delight when the parents had visitors over and they all gushed over pictures of babies of strangers whom they’ve never met and places nobody barely remembers. Family photos cover the spectrum from braggery from the curator’s perspective to voyeurism on the viewer’s part. Continue reading
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Tagged digitization, images, memories, mortality, nostalgia, people, personal
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Welcome to 2019
We’re into a new year. 2019 is an extension to a new beginning. It’s a year full of anniversaries. New knowledge and skills shall be acquired. Let’s get cracking. Continue reading
Posted in Archive
Tagged 2019, anniversary, digitization, planning, projects, world domination
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Welcome to 2018
It’s time to turn our back on the past and focus on the future. With a new job there’s also only so much time. Welcome to 2018. Continue reading
The death of recordable compact discs, part 4
Once upon a time there was a co-worker. He complained bitterly about how much he hated adhesive labels applied onto CD-Rs. This was over a decade ago. The vast majority of my self-burnt music CD-Rs have become near unplayable. And here follows my most recent adventure: ripping those bastards. Continue reading
How to digitise audio tapes
As is the nature of this beast, other ideas and more tapes have collected since. Some of those tapes were rare, if not unique. Others demanded more attention than the rushed 128kbps rips from the previous round. It seemed sensible to archive some and re-rip others at the highest possible sampling and quality rate. Here then, if you will, is a list of hints and observations on how to best rip audio tapes. Continue reading
Cassette Project 1: Feeding the monster
That’s it! Enough! I’ve had it with tapes for a while. I added another batch of regular audio tapes into that database monster named Discogs. It needs to be fed. Needs more metadata. Yum-yum! Continue reading
Modern Media Consumption
Now that I’ve finally gotten rid of that horrid analogue video media format named “VHS”, I’ve been thinking about what comes next. I’m referring to an all-digital format — an ethereal one that exists not even as files on your hard drive. Truth be told, I’m not really sure — because definitions of “the Cloud” vary. What I am getting at is much more sinister, and I’m not sure I like what’s coming. Continue reading
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Tagged consumerism, digitization, movies, old, piracy, streaming, throwaway society
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Goodbye, VHS
Farewell, VHS. The time has finally come to lay you to rest. It was April 2014 that everything related to VHS was rounded up for the final curtain call of a play dubbed “VHS2AVI”. The VHS digitisation project was ready to begin. Continue reading