RE: Records In The Attic - A Case For Physical Music Media?
Really wonderful post. I have a similar story in a lot of ways, with over a thousand songs written and hundreds recorded, and I have lost at least half of what I have recorded over the last two and a half decades. I wish I had the magic solution - vinyl is pretty close, maybe a vinyl equivalent that is made on some medium that cannot warp. Possibly with the rise of 3d printing we will see something like this in the near future - a print-at-home more or less permanent physical object that records music (or pictures/video for that matter) in a physical manner similar to the grooves in a record. Something that can't be wiped out by electromagnetism, or a hard drive failure.
By the way I think you forgot to close a blockquote element in your post - there is a block quote that extends down through quite a few paragraphs up to the end of the article that I believe you intended to close quite a bit earlier.
Really happy to have found you, following you and can't wait to hear more! Cheers - Carl
Thanks, Carl! And thanks for the blockquote notice. Ya, it's a sad thing. I don't think most people understand how hard it becomes to keep up with this stuff over decades, especially when the wheels of creation are still flying down the highway. .. 3d printing is an interesting Idea.
I do find if it's physical, it does tend to stick around better. I don't know why my Data DVDs have failed .. all the CD-Rs have held up fine, some now around 20 years old.