I don't recall much discussion online about this but some of us have been talking about something like this among ourselves. <br> I don't know if anyone is actually making recordings yet other than you. I would think that MP3 would be the best format for the audio files. Since the source is mono you could use a pretty high compression rate and still have acceptable quality.
<br> I think it would be great if several people were recording stories of our history and sending them to a central location. So far as I know no such central repository has been setup yet. <br> <br>Robert<br><br><div>
<span class="gmail_quote">On 10/29/07, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:zubeydah@northkeep.org">zubeydah@northkeep.org</a></b> <<a href="mailto:zubeydah@northkeep.org">zubeydah@northkeep.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Howdy, Bards!<br><br>At the suggestion of Duchess Willow at Samhain yesterday, I've joined the list,
<br>to ask about a project near and dear to my heart...<br><br>I've been collecting stories at the last couple events I've attended, utilizing<br>a little digital recorder. I've also been recording courts and songs and
<br>musicians.<br><br>Duchess Willow mentioned that this was a project that a variety of folks in the<br>Bardic community were also thinking about / already undertaking. I skimmed the<br>last few months worth of posts, but didn't see anything with a thread title
<br>directly related to this idea.<br><br>So my questions are these:<br><br>- What file format are folks using?<br>- Is there a central repository organized for such files?<br>- I'm planning on also transcribing the stories, so that those who are deaf can
<br>still enjoy them, and to also help out those with small bandwidth (reading<br>a .txt file being easier to handle than downloading a .wav) Are others doing<br>this as well?<br>- is this a Bardic Group Project, or is this an 'individual' project? If a
<br>Group project, who is the lead person?<br><br>Thank you,<br><br>Zubeydah Jamilla al-Badawiyyah<br>archivish HBI nerd<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Bards mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Bards@lists.ansteorra.org">
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