Friday, October 17

Restorations II

Autumn is very much in the air as I noticed on Wednesdsay going into town as we slowly work our way though this virius infection well wrapped up and masked between working on some of that restoration work.

Some of the work around downloads has been done so we should be getting somewhere with this by christmas as has adding the odd missing title from cd as sometimes a used cd can be cheaper than a download if for whatever reason you didn't get it at the time

The main thing is creating your folder structure and dealing artist labelling differences such as "Rolling Stones, the" and "THE ROLLING STONES" as that only ends creating two sets of files which isn't what you need.

I mean technically artist followed by the definative article ("the") is correct when it comes to making your  alphabetical order but some sites insist on The "Artist Name" which is then used to creat the artist folder that all abums by them get filed under.

Classical music is usually a nightmare as some prefer Composers (although recording by more than one can get complicated), others performers such as Orchestras ot Conductors.


Another kind of a restoration involved this record that in my original copies form had suffered from leeching from PVC outer jackets with a grey coloured haze plus some groove damage and worse still a pvc lined inner sleeve it had started to stick to that ironically back in mid 1983 I'd put it in thing it would protect better than the plain paper one!

Fortunately I tracked down a near mint copy as the record is much better sounding than any cd version, an early mixed down to stereo digitally one which was common place in Canada back then unlike the UK and at least on this copy worked out very well.

1 comment:

  1. Now imagine as a child feeling like this virus infection persistently for much of the time, from your region's air quality. How it would keep you believing in need to well wrap up in winter, and not daring to break wrapping up norms that you have no knowledge of anyone else breaking. This before the web, so no sources to know that from, and the media never tell you it ? and it's not a practice by schools in your region and never happens to you at school, and the media never tell you it's a practice by schools in most regions, so you go your whole schooldays not even knowing that ?
    Then in later life after such robbed childhood, imagine finding that happy unrobbed folks can't cross the emotion line of confronting or addressing that the heartbreak exists ?

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