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Title: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: Mr 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
Title: Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: ChunYinZi 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.
Title: Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: kablamatic on May 27, 2024, 08:11:15 PM: Quote from: ChunYinZi 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.

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

Must be a server issue.
Title: Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: JimmyD on May 27, 2024, 09:53:23 PM: I was able to get in just now. Earlier today it was down.
Title: Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: lbjames on May 27, 2024, 10:06:44 PM: it was down for a bit yesterday as well, it works fine right now.
Title: Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: Mr 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.
Title: Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: Yohanes Salomo on May 27, 2024, 10:52:47 PM: For me, it worked well, even without using VPN or some sort of.
Title: Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: ζBUS on May 28, 2024, 01:51:51 PM: Still down on my end.
Title: Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: Mr on May 28, 2024, 04:17:53 PM: Yeah, they're down again. From their Twitter (https://twitter.com/internetarchive/status/1795451463465845141) about 1h ago:
"We are continuing to experience service disruptions due to a recurrence of a ddos attack."
Title: Re: NFSA 78 rpm collection made available on archive.org
Post by: Moon Monkey 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...