Eric,She, of course, cannot remove all of the background stuff but she can (and does) remove a certain amount of it which makes the playback sound a lot better than the original playback.
And she is well aware of the finite life of computer recorded CD's and DVD's. She tells the parents that if they want to keep the recording forever, they will need to back it up and then every so often, migrate it to new media.
I have a lot of 1/2" computer tapes, reel-to-reel music tapes, cassettes, 8", 5-1/4", & 3-1/2" floppies, and, CD's that I created a few years ago, that have gone south. Magnetics (tapes & floppies) and chemical reactions (CD's & DVD's) simply do not last. It is a fact.
On the other hand, I have family negatives and prints from the late 1800's that are still in 'really' good condition. And they were never stored in ideal conditions. I truly believe that the current generation of non film family photographs are going to leave future generations with a HUGE hole when they want to go back and look at family history. When, on the news, you see people having to flee their homes due to wild fires (or some other disaster), when interviewed, what do they grab when they run out... their PICTURES! I guess future generations can grab their hard disks & DVD's. But good luck!
IMHO, :-) Jim On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Eric Goldstein wrote:
Hi Jim - Thanks for the info and the memories. I don't think your daughter can edit out background noise, but feel free to fill me in. I'd also mention that while you can still play and enjoy your recording from when you were a kid, there is no chance that the CD your daughter's students receive from her will survive more than a few years, if they are lucky... Eric Goldstein -- On 4/30/08, Jim Brick <jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:Sure. I remember them well. When I took piano lessons (40's and early 50's), my teacher had a 'record' recorder. Quite expensive. We (his pupils) eachgot a record of our performance during recitals. I still have mine. My daughter teaches piano, she records the entire recital in stereo,digitally, loads the whole recital into her MAC, edits out the background noise and other extraneous stuff, then gives each pupil a CD of the entirerecital, labeled with a really cool label. http://tinyurl.com/4rsxqr http://global.dymo.com/enUS/ProductAccessories/DiscPainter.html Jim
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