If you’ve ever thought about digitizing your record collection, here’s how the Internet Archive does it

April 30, 2021April 29, 2021 Alan Cross 0 Comments

There are many reasons why you might want to digitize an analogue music format: storage, preservation, distribution, and so on. But it’s a laborious process that needs to be done in real time.

Here’s a tweet from the Internet Archive which is dedicated to preserving things like old 78 RPM records. This is how they do things.

At the Internet Archive, this is how we digitize #78 rpm records.
Our partner @georgeblood_lp has perfected this technique, digitizing with 4 different styli at once.

We put as much effort into capturing the #metadata as we do digitizing the music. pic.twitter.com/dn4EjXTS9z
— Internet Archive (@internetarchive) April 25, 2021

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