{"id":2863,"date":"2011-01-15T10:12:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2011-01-15T10:12:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T00:12:27","slug":"everything-online-all-the-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2863","title":{"rendered":"Everything online all the time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gadgetguy.com.au\/free-music-(but-probably-not-what-you-were-expecting)-article-10474-4.html\">The Gadget Guy reports<\/a> that 200,000 pre-WWII recordings have been donated by Universal Music to the US Library of Congress, which will convert them to a digital format and make them available for free online. I reckon this is a valuable service. Old content should be recovered and copied to digital formats while the reading technology remains available.<\/p>\n<p>This would be even more important with magnetic media than mechanical recordings (ie, where a physical representation of the sound vibration is stored). The latter are always amendable to recovery even with custom equipment. But old tapes &#8212; especially ones from the early days when little was standardised &#8212; are harder to read, especially without original equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gadget Guy reports that 200,000 pre-WWII recordings have been donated by Universal Music to the US Library of Congress, which will convert them to a digital format and make them available for free online. I reckon this is a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=2863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,6,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}