[esonderegger]

I don't know why this popped up on the front page of HN today, but for anyone who enjoys the history of audio recordings, I highly recommend checking out UCSB's cylinder preservation and digitization project:

http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/

[sp332]

And the Great 78 Project is preserving 78 RPM records. http://great78.archive.org/ There are over 100,000 recordings available to stream online now. https://archive.org/details/78rpm (This collection also includes the Cylinder Archive for some reason.) The ones from George Blood are ripped 4 times at once with four tone arms with different needles, then each of the four gets equalized by a sound engineer and one is picked as the best. All 8 copies are uploaded to the Internet Archive. http://great78.archive.org/preservation/

[jszymborski]

I can't help but think of one of my favourite moments of televised schadenfreude when audio cylinders get mentioned.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnsizkVjGm8