Saving radio archives

Writes blogger Sergey Mukhammedov:

The other day there was a surprising by its positive development. Perish film archive Irkutsk Radio was not taken out the trash, not lost, forgotten in a wet basement or even lost in the received money for the program "Digital Russia" firms. And just ... it was transferred digital pirates.
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Yuriy Metyolkin, creator of the legendary online service broadcasting "Old Radio" I repeat this phrase from the last post, "violating copyrights, it performs a great mission of preserving our cultural heritage." It is the only person in our country, which is involved in prospecting, recovery and distribution of all of the "cultural layer", which accumulated for decades and that we can in the time lost due to technology development, commercialization and, unfortunately, the absolute indifference of the state.



Not surprisingly, perishing in warehouses of the military unit to be disposed of Irkutsk radio archive was handed caring people just "old radio". And who else? Even if we imagine that will Gosteleradiofond 80,000 reels and recover, digitize, then expect him that we or our children ever hear them would be foolish. One minute recording it sells for 500 rubles.



The money for the transportation of students from Irkutsk archive "Old Radio" collected all the world, posting messages on social networks. On Wednesday, the forty-ton container arrived in Moscow.



Along with him came and four studio recorder, two of which will be used for parts, the rest will be used for digitization.



In five years, Yuri Metyolkin digitized files twenty thousand precious literary heritage. His standing on the balcony of the server distributes 8 terabytes of records per month, it is more than three hundred thousand hours of sound that listen in 80 countries every day.



Even a cursory examination of the coils, it became clear that many of the materials are unique. It auditions, performances, musical and literary compositions, author's programs, meetings, interviews, children's programs - all of what is called cultural heritage, do not have prices in monetary terms. All this we could lose in a moment. How to lose "Pioneer Zorka", "APO" or "Again, twenty-five" - ​​no one (!) Recording of these programs left. From "Zorka" preserved only callsigns.



Such radio archives across Russia hundreds - in every major city in the Union had its own broadcasting company. Digitization is not conducted any that have died - died, that can save the state does not care. Since the new year, Yuri has sounded the alarm about the vanishing records Omsk House of Radio, wrote a letter to the governor and the media. Reactions absolutely no or from officials, either from the media, a deathly silence.



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Old radio really need volunteers who have some experience in digitization of sound and able to cope with the software. As well as people with equipment such as tape recorders kilometer, like Studer or STM. If each volunteer will digitize all, only 30-60 minutes a day, just a couple of years can be shared with the entire archive of Irkutsk radio.



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