[Web4lib] Where to invest in music collection.

[Mike Taylor]

Lawrence Milliken writes:
 > > Why not just rip your LPs to MP3 (or perhaps OGG)?
 >
 > Unfortunately, LPs would have to be ripped in real-time so that's
 > about 45min. per album.  Even with student workers it would
 > probably be cheaper to replace the tracks online or offline.
 > Probably would be ok to do for rare and out-of-print recordings
 > though.

Well, that's an important factor.  But don't forget that this is
_elapsed_ time, not worker time.  Given the right kit, there's no
reason why a digitiser should start ten LPs going one after the other
(allowing a generous two minutes each) then return to them in order to
turn them over.  Bingo, ten-fold improvement in throughput.

Just a thought.

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