Re: Cds

[a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

>I've was told by a very prominent ethnomusicologist who I met at Lou 
>Harrison's house that tape is still the prefered media for archival 
>storage.

Smithsonian Folkways are transferring their tapes to digital.

All media have limited life, but the advantage with digital is that 
with care you can
re-copy every so often without loss.

The advantage of tape is that even without care you still get some 
kind of audio, whereas when digital media degrades you tend to lose 
everything.

andy butler