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I keep everything on hard drives -- I have my main machine and two backups, one offsite. I rotate the backups periodically -- and disks fall off the bottom as they get old/small -- I started backing up onto 80's, now it's 250's. Interesting, since I started this I have had no data loss of any kind. :-D rather like carrying an umbrella around. On 1/3/07, David Auker <davauk@hevanet.com> wrote: > > CD/Tape...here's a tidbit about National Public Radio's Fresh Air: > > > Most of Gross's interviews are taped and edited down, and as is the > > case in many radio programs, guests are often not in the studio. While > > nearly all other radio programming now use digital recording, Fresh > > Air is still recorded, edited and played on analog reel-to-reel tape. > > However, the program's website announced in 2006 that the aging tapes > > were now deteriorating and that they would soon begin transferring the > > thousands of interviews "to a digital format and indexing them." The > > show usually uses fiber-optic lines to conduct its interviews leading > > to a superior sound quality. > from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresh_Air > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Gross > > Wow, Terry Gross has been there 30 years! > > =David > > a k butler wrote: > > > >> I've was told by a very prominent ethnomusicologist who I met at Lou > >> Harrison's house that tape is still the prefered media for archival > >> storage. > > > > Smithsonian Folkways are transferring their tapes to digital. > > > > All media have limited life, but the advantage with digital is that > > with care you can > > re-copy every so often without loss. > > > > The advantage of tape is that even without care you still get some > > kind of audio, whereas when digital media degrades you tend to lose > > everything. > > > > andy butler > > > > > > -- /t http://ax.to ......... extreme NY arts and music calendar http://ax.to/tr ....... my secret little little... http://ax.to/radio ... my little radio station (on intermittently)