On 5/26/2006 at 12:11 PM Jim Leonard wrote:
By preserving the first, you preserve the second.
This follows only if (1) your preservation of the analog audio is perfect
and (2) the knowledge to use the information remains. The digital
information, whether printed on paper or burned on CD is the essence of
what was on the tape, regardless of whatever the medium was.
So, I'd think that the digital preservation is the important thing and that
the audio is just a detail. The audio's the bottle; the data's the wine.
The bottle really imparts (other than the printing on the label) nothing
useful to the contents.
Or so I think.
Cheers,
Chuck