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Mr

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NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« on: May 25, 2024, 11:15:37 AM »
Heya, LMTers!

It's already a bit of old news at this point, but the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia have digitized and made available a huge (huge!) collection of their 78 rpm records on the Internet Archive, available here:
https://archive.org/details/78rpm_nsfa

This collection, among many other historic recordings, contains both audio recordings and photos of a massive amount of old library records, with material from Boosey & Hawkes, Bosworth, Brunswick, Conroy, EMI, Music-De Wolfe, Harmonic (C. Brull), Impress, KP Music/KPM, Major Records, Macquarie, Mood Music (FDH), Paxton, Rondex, Sonaura, Southern, Synchro, Theme Music (JW), TransWorld, Ultra Music Services (UMS) and Video Moods (did I miss any?), as well as a bunch of vintage sound effects records.

Having collected a good chunk of 78s myself over the years, I know first-hand not only how incredibly elusive some of these are - having the ability to browse a near-full run of Impress 78s is entirely unprecedented - ... but also what a hassle these are to both transport, store and digitize.


We're being completely spoiled here, essentially - thank you, Australia! <3

ChunYinZi

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Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2024, 05:29:34 PM »
For a while now, I've been unable to open archive.org-related sites.

Even if I use a VPN.

That's strange.

kablamatic

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Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2024, 08:11:15 PM »
For a while now, I've been unable to open archive.org-related sites.

Even if I use a VPN.

That's strange.

Same for me. It says "This site can't be reached" and "took too long to respond."

Must be a server issue.

JimmyD

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Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2024, 09:53:23 PM »
I was able to get in just now. Earlier today it was down.

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Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2024, 10:06:44 PM »
it was down for a bit yesterday as well, it works fine right now.

Mr

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Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« Reply #5 on: May 27, 2024, 10:31:43 PM »
They've been under a DDoS attack the last few days, but things are back up and running now it seems.

Yohanes Salomo

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Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« Reply #6 on: May 27, 2024, 10:52:47 PM »
For me, it worked well, even without using VPN or some sort of.

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Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« Reply #7 on: May 28, 2024, 01:51:51 PM »
Still down on my end.

Mr

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Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« Reply #8 on: May 28, 2024, 04:17:53 PM »
Yeah, they're down again. From their Twitter about 1h ago:
"We are continuing to experience service disruptions due to a recurrence of a ddos attack."

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Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2024, 05:12:27 AM »
A lot of early Paxtons and Booseys have just been added. Fingers crossed for the missing Bosworths...