Yeah. And whenever anyone says "Oh the music companies would never let these old recordings die, it's their bread and butter!" I give them this story.
We cannot trust our cultural heritage to any one entity.
Oh, it's not my project -- I already have moved my own projects off there, yeah.
around 5500... gonna take a while. My ISP says there's no monthly cap but I wonder if I really should dl this much...
Normally I would just fetch the torrent, yes, but this particular collection is huge -- over 400k separate items (which on IA be their own torrents). Is there a way to get an aggregate, but filtered, torrent with just, say, the album jpg and VBR mp3 files for each? I don't think I can afford the entire collection as each also has the FLACs.
I guess they know how to use the three seashells.
Yeah, you're right, Fuck em.
FYI I'm currently on 4001-8000 of the 'Great 78 Collection'. Looks like I'll need about 6TB to get it all, yikes! (Just the VBR MP3 files, not the FLACs. Holy Hell.)
collection:georgeblood
https://archive.org/details/georgeblood
If everyone would take blocks of it, say 4000 each, we can eventually create torrents for each one or something so it can all be reassembled if/when the IA has to take it down.
He was still afraid to say he wouldn't vote for Trump, he just said he wouldn't vote for Biden and would vote Republican. So.... if Trump is the Republican candidate, what will he do? Note vote at all? Or... the obvious logical conclusion to his non-answer?
Such cowards.
In Canada, at least when I was younger, there was a sort of hierarchy of post-secondary institutions, named honestly for their mandates: Technical Institutes, Colleges, Universities, ranging from good, focused, short-term (1-2yr max) trades education, to somewhat white-collar education and business training (2-3 years) without little to no research focus, to full-on graduate/post-graduate tracks (4 yrs undergrad BsC/BEd etc. and beyond) doing the typical research expected of Universities.
If this "University" has truly cut out anything considered arts/humanities or "liberal arts", then they should be required to drop the facade and just call themselves a tech institute or something.
I sincerely hope people are organizing to back this all up -- datahoarders unite! These days it's affordable to dedicate an 8TB disk to back up as much of these as possible.. anyone have any tips on bulk-downloading the individual 78s from archive.org?
Edit: I found this tool, get archiving, people
https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive
Example:
ia download -a -i --format="VBR MP3" --search collection:georgeblood
EDIT #2: I've submitted a patch adding options to specify start and end item indices, so one can more easily download parts of a collection and resume later -- or coordinate with others so each can download non-overlapping parts of a huge collection, and put them together later. See this PR
What country are you in? I wonder if they're rolling it out to smaller markets to see how much backlash they get.
Time to get a federated video hosting service scaled up ASAP. But who could afford the bandwidth and storage? We need a stable torrent-based streaming solution I suppose.
Think about the ecological waste of these things going into the landfill when they could last 2-3x longer if they were just designed a bit better.
I wish the IA would offer a torrents of the overall collection but it's over 400k separate torrents, one for each album. And they contain FLACs, fixed- and VBR MP3s, PDF jacket notes, JPGs ... it's just too much for one person (I am OK with buying an 8TB drive or two, but not a dozen!)
I'm trying to at least grab the VBR MP3s (these are old scratchy records after all... I don't know how much FLAC will really preserve). Maybe if I can get most of those, I'll do a second pass and get the album cover JPGs, then liner PDFs... depending on if/how long the collection stays up.