Hi Chris, thanks for the comment ... my original recordings are at a range of audio qualities, for the earliest ones originating from lo- to mid- fi cassettes, even mp3 quality is probably sufficient. For the ones with better quality original audio, yes I can hear a slight degradation to youtube standard - variously quoted at 128 to 320 kbps equivalent (I re-encode my audio to 320 in order to upload to youtube, and they possibly degrade it further) but it is tolerable at least - e.g. if you are OK listening to jazz, try https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW9hCL0QZPs as an example, and see if it is at least "listenable". However for the audio-only files, I agree that a higher resolution repository would be better, that someone else (not me) would maintain in perpetuity - just not really found one as yet - Dime not being a repository, just a lot of links to where the files are on other people's computers (which then have to be on and linked to the internet, with good bandwidth, which mine is not...) And Dime does not handle video files, so far as I am aware, with or without better quality audio than youtube.

Therefore the ultimate perfect "repository" for this stuff still eludes me at this time, however YouTube is at least a mechanism to make them available for listening and/or viewing by interested persons for now (better than being inaccessible).

Cheers - Tony