RE: arsclist CD access copies

["Copeland, Peter" <Peter.Copeland@xxxxx>]

Dear All,
    Now that I've retired, you should not assume this is British Library
policy. But "interviews" (in our parlance, Oral History interviews) are
always mastered on Minidisc, upon which track flags can be edited.
Basically, the interviewer does this after the session has ended. The audio
is then copied using a digital link to CD-R (yes, I know the audio has
suffered lossy compression in the meantime), and the SP-DIF link carries the
track flags, so the subject-changes nearly always coincide with a track
flag.
Peter Copeland

-----Original Message-----
From: andy kolovos [mailto:akolovos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 November 2002 14:57
To: ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: arsclist CD access copies

Ok, well now that we've touched on the topic of CD access copies, I have a
general question for folks out there who are using CD for access copies of
audio interviews. If you record an entire interview to CD without adding
track breaks of any sort, the only way to reach a particular point the
recording is either to listen to the whole interview until you reach the
desired point or hold down the "search" button and shuffle through the
entire recording--assuming, of course, one's listening room CD players even
have a search button.  This is, unless one inserts track marks on to the
disc at various intervals or to mark significant points.  

My instinct is to place track marks at timed intervals--lets say every 5 or
so minutes of a recording--without any silence between them, across the
duration of the interview.  This would allow a patron to skip ahead a bit
more quickly than he or she would be able to if they had to hold down the
search button to do the same thing. If I were to place tracks at
"significant" points in the interview, I would be the one deciding what was
"significant"--and I would rather have patrons decide on their own what
they find significant in or about a particular interview.

What are those of you out there who are using CD for access to interviews
doing?  Has anyone discussed a developing a "best practice" in this regard?

Any thoughts are appreciated.

thanks,

andy
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Andy Kolovos
Archivst/Folklorist
Vermont Folklife Center
P.O. Box 442
Middlebury, VT 05753
(802) 388-4964
akolovos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org


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