There is a gospel site just as stuffed with gems in black, southern, and mountain gospel, and I am saving madly so that if it goes away I'll still have all the resources, because I depend on this kind of material for our church service, and it's not available otherwise.

I have been wondering if our Mudcat fellowship can organize conservation parties, groups making sure the content of particular sites are preserved... stewards of the bounty who can at least send out RA or MP3 files via e-mail when asked.... I'm saving a text copy of each page so I have a reference for the label, recording date, etc. But I think there is so much there that I should have recruited a partner to split the job, and I bet we could easily have organized a saving party here for Honkingduck.

The thing is, if you autosave a batch at a site, you are stuck with the filenaming conventions each and every site dreamed up, and it gets hard to find things on your system later. After trying a few other approaches, my filenames now are the songtitle and either artist and source site, or, if available, label name and the label's number for the item. (Makes for funny filenames: "Jesus Recorded At Hollywood" ... Who knew??? *G*) That means hand-saving each song, but it pays off later when I want to see multiple versions of one title, and I can resort by title.

Anyway I am throwing the suggestion out there-- can we work together to conserve stuff? How would YOU go about it?

And is there a volunteer to help me on the southern gospel while I finish the black gospel? It's the OLD stuff, the early quartets.

~Susan