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Member 7989122 wrote:
The problem with long time archival storage that I fear the most: I can make a backup of my 4TB audio disk (still less than half filled) in a single command. But fifty years from now, can I be sure that there is a player available for WMA files? For Monkey/Ape? ATRAC? RealAudio? au files? (and two dozen other formats) Can I be sure that the container format is known and dechipherable?


The solution to that is pretty simple: If you have audio in some file format that's going out of favor, then surely, there's a converter--there's already tons of them for everything under the sun, including lossless formats that won't make any conversion any worse than the original. I have to assume you don't let important data sit around for decades at a time...otherwise you end up with the situation you describe. But, I'm not worried about that.

I'm totally with you regarding the "Who cares generation". They already don't care about the quality of the audio they listen to right now...much less about older recordings... Dead | X|
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