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The Wired Blog – coincidentally on Vinyl Record Day (the 131st anniversary of the invention of the phonographic record of which they appear to be naively unaware) – reports on the efforts of Cliff Bolling, a young man from Oregon, to digitise his collection of 78s.

3793 so far, with 2500 to go.

Bloody hell…

Dubber picked it up over at New Music Strategies and took it to a completely new orbit.

As he tends to.

Ideas for podcasts (1 taker already) linked to a blog, online albums releases and finding a way to automate tidying up the ID3 metadata

I took up his challenge on the latter.

Not too tricky, although the source data is a bit thin (Artist, Title, Label and Catalogue number, no dates) and I can’t for the life of me get iTunes to accept comments (which could contain Label and Catalogue). Any ideas?

Beale Street Mama – Arthur Gibbs And His Gang     
Bile Dem Cabbage Down – Clayton McMichen’s Georgia Wildcats    
Down Yonder– The Honky Tonks
Dreamy Hawaii – Duci De Kerekjarto
Deep River Blues – Willard Robison
Dixie Highway – Ray Miller
Blue Heaven – Nick Cea

7 down, 6286 to go….