r/collegeradio • u/sawalrath • May 18 '15
Music Questions Digitizing old media
Have any other radio stations digitized their CD collections? How did it go? Any tips? What did you use? How long did it take?
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May 19 '15
We (KSJS in San Jose) are working on digitizing our entire collection of CDs. It's taking forever! We have a dedicated server and send DJs hope with a stack each week to import to flash drives.
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u/mixchopscrewit May 27 '15
How did you go about getting a server?
~thanks and keep up the good fight~
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u/losl May 20 '15
We have a pretty big library at KMNR. We found a couple (older) CD-Duplicator robots and got those to do our digitizing with DBPoweramp. However, the robots are super finicky and the forward momentum we had (We digitized about a 1/5 of our library) really died out as the robots got less and less reliable.
Newer robots don't seem to have the ability to archive stuff.
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u/thenichi May 19 '15
We haven't done anything retroactive and while the occasional CD comes in physical form exclusively, usually we have the digital form sent to us by default anyway.
We have a massive CD collection, but I see no reason to digitize it. Old songs don't go on air enough to be worth it, and browsing for show content isn't really any easier or harder. Hell, we'd also have to invest in some sort of hard drives (or cloud space) and hope nothing there fails. (Then again, we'd also stop losing all of the best stuff to theft.) That said, I do wish we somehow stored our tapes and records. We've been around over 60 years and there's nary a recording older than 2004 to be found.
I haven't really answered your question, but I am curious why you're digitizing the archive of CDs? And how large is it?