Άλλο νέο μεγάλο Project από το Internet Archive: The public release of 78 rpm discs is a fact and is released today with 26.000 records.
The project brings a digitized 78 RPM file and according to the project home page, members will have access to more than 200.000 records.
The 78 discs per minute were circulating between 1898 and 1950. The most popular and commercially successful recordings have been re-released as LPs or CDs, but there are many who do not have them.
Internet Archive the new Project
Commercially-viable recordings have been restored or have already been converted to LP or CDs, as research value is still available for frequently scarce discs and recordings of 78rpm. Already over 20 collections have been selected by Internet Archive for physics, digital preservation and public access.
The digitized copies of the original 78 rpm recordings retain all the imperfections and surface noise of the recordings. The recordings were mostly released on Shellac, a fragile predecessor to the LP.
The project page includes all available records and provides search and filtering options. The filters they give you options to limit the results in many ways. You can filter by year, by collection, by creator or by language, for example.
The dominant language of recordings is English, but you can find hundreds of recordings in other languages like Polish, Spanish, Italian or German.
The names of the artists included in the project include: Bing Crosby, Guy Lombardo, Gene Autry, Jim Dorsey, Paul Whiteman, Glenn Miller and others.
The page contains information about the enrollment, the publisher, the digitization, user comments and download options. Various file formats are provided, including FLAC, OGG and MP3. There is no option to download an entire collection at this time.
The new collection seems to be extremely interesting for music lovers and researchers.
See the new project
https://archive.org/details/78rpm
