Unfortunately it gets worse. Not only is the digital collection less accessible but it appears that all recordings are inaccessible. As an example I attempted to find the Carpenter recordings made at Bampton. The recordings were correctly listed but there appears to be no opportunity to play them. This wipes out all of VW recordings Sharps cylinders and it appears all of the sterling work done by Mr. Fury with his Mp3 transcriptions of Sharp and Hammond. While we're on the subject I sent all Cohen B/K's Mp3's to the Full English musical administrator in Australia (!!). They never made it to the site.
I think there is a case to answer here, and if as I suspect finance or lack of it is the problem somebody some where should have made more noise about it than a few pop up requests for donations. This is a serious loss to future generations, and somebody much younger than I and in better health needs to take control. It could well be that the movement in the 1990's to relocate the VWML to some other area of academic excellence had more merit that we thought at the time.