Joe O -

I don't think you can count on this technology for any immediate help.

I had considered links to a couple of older threads "related" in that they whipped the "durability of CDs" and a couple of "signal processing" cleanup arguments (who's got the best program stuff) pretty much to death. I think you got the "CD life" one.

Some of our people seem to know something about using the "waveform editors" to take some of the pops and whistles out, but I don't recall any specific thread that would stand out as a good one to consult.

The Smithsonian Archiving project was linked in a fairly recent (a few days ago?) thread, but I can't recall just what the title was. I think the kick-off comment was something about "they put A in their 'hall of fame,' why didn't they do B;" but I'm shooting blanks on the names. "Hall of Fame" is probably not right. "Archive selections?" I do seem to recall that the "main names" were bluesmen.

John