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[Discuss] [OT] digitizing old 78rpm records? ELP laser turntable services?
- Subject: [Discuss] [OT] digitizing old 78rpm records? ELP laser turntable services?
- From: jabr at blu.org (John Abreau)
- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 00:12:16 -0400
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Doesn't do 78s; it only plays at 33.3 and 45 rpm. And the needle would probably destroy the 78s while trying to play them. On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:34 PM, Steven Santos <Steven at simplycircus.com> wrote: > For $40 this might be worth trying: > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0029QRA1U/transfermymusic-20 > > > --- > Steven Santos > Director > Simply Circus, Inc. > 86 Los Angeles Street > Newton, MA 02458 > > P: 617-527-0667 > F: 617-934-1870 > E: Steven at SimplyCircus.com > > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:45 AM, Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote: > > The frustrating (or amazing) thing about 78s is they are not > "information" > > devices they are "industrial": They have big grooves that make big > > excursions and they whip by really fast, all to make noise rather > directly. > > There is no amplifier in an old Victrola, yet it makes a room full of > sound. > > The 78 record isn't just information, it is a big part of the sound > > reproduction system, and playing it is destructive. But you knew that. > > > > I have a related problem, I inherited a zillion slides from my parents' > > world travels. How to digitize them? There were two obvious routes: use > some > > service or buy a slide scanner. Pricing the services was scary--not bad > for > > a few but crazy expensive for a lot. Looking that reviews of scanners I > was > > disappointed with the quality, and they can be slow. > > > > So I took the homebrew approach and crafted my own "scanner". Right now > > there is a lot of competition in the high-end camera market, so I bought > the > > fanciest DSLR any normal person should buy with his/er own money, and I > am > > taking pictures of the slides. > > > > A macro lens, a light box, a tripod, a black plastic food container with > a > > hole in it upside down to move the slide up from the less-than-perfect > > diffuser (use distance to diffuse and throw small patterning out of > focus), > > a remote release, wooden bracing to hold the camera more steady...and a > > bunch of futzing...and I can see the film grain. > > > > My wife and I can digitize slides as fast as we can individually pull > them > > out of a Carousel, puff off the dust, place them in the upside down food > > container, and return them. In about the time that it would take to pack > up > > a batch to send out, we are done with that batch. Well, not done yet, > but on > > a recent long weekend visit to the ol' homestead we digitized over four > > thousand slides, and that's a good fraction of the total > > > > > > As for 78s, I might be crazy...but a 78 side usually only runs > 3-something > > minutes of low-fidelity sound. There isn't much fundamental information > > there, a high quality photo (or several stitched) of a record side might > > capture it all. Then it is a "simple matter of programming" to recover > the > > sound! You could even crop out the label details for your metadata. > > > > Googling "optical record groove software"... > > > > Amazing recovering of audio from paper recordings: > > > https://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/extracting-audio-from-pictures/ > > > > A hacker who demonstrated he could get something audible from LP > photos: > > http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/DigitalNeedle/index.html > > > > There are plenty of general purpose open source imaging processing > libraries > > available, maybe there is specific useful software available from the > Irene > > project?? > > > > > > -kb > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Discuss mailing list > > Discuss at blu.org > > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix Email jabr at blu.org / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0x920063C6 PGP-Key-Fingerprint A5AD 6BE1 FEFE 8E4F 5C23 C2D0 E885 E17C 9200 63C6
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