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In article writes:

I thought twice about mentioning the word archival and mp3 in the same
sentence for fear of having my knuckles slapped. Convenience is the most
important thing here, especially considering the quality of the
originals. Even with minor post processing, the MP3s are going to sound
much much better than the originals. So being in an inherently lossy
format isn't going to matter that much.

That's quite possibly true, providing you use one of the better
quality encoders (those who use 'em will tell you what they are, and
aren't) and use a sufficiently high bit rate. Whenever I see "archive"
I always worry about the ability to find something to play the media
on 25 years in the future. If that's not a concern, then it's hard to
beat a single hard drive that has every record and tape on it that
you've ever owned.

cheapest click and pop removal is manual... In many real respects
STILL the best way.

You'd be amazed at how tolerant you can be of clicks and pops when
listening to such "archived" recordings. If you were planning on a
"concert experience" then I could see taking care to clean them up,
but if you're just going to be putting on some music to exercise or
type or dance to, you'll be far too busy to be bothered by an
occasional tick. The time spent getting rid of it will be far more
than the time you remain annoyed that you heard it on your "digital"
playback system.

When I transfer records to CDs (for car listening, or to give someone
a copy of an out-of-print limited production album that they'd never
find a legitmate copy of) I usually just roll off the low end pretty
sharply below 50 Hz. That gets rid of the rumble from my not-so-hot
turntable that I can now hear on today's playback systems, and that's
more like how I remember hearing those recordings when they were new
anyway.

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