Archiving Dobson

This evening, Dan and Jon Gomez, director of bands for Dobson High School spent a decent amount of time archiving all the recordings we have made with their various ensembles since 2003......and I must say, there are a lot of them.

The archival process will be multi-faceted. First we taking all CD media and transfering it to hard disc, in it's raw WAVE format. This will be arviced to DVD.....next we will take all the WAVE files and encode them using FLAC and add all the apropriate meta-tag informaiton. This will serve as the "reference" master that the directors will use and have copies of in their library as well as on their hard disc's so they can review and listen.

This is a very cool project and one that is not being taken lightly. This should lay the foundation for Dobson High Schools Performing Arts archival system that we have been concieving for a little over a year now. The idea is that with media being so inexpensive and as a result, not much value is placed on the media. Our goal is to establish a legacy that will carry on through the years allowing thoes down the road to listen to the schools history. Not to mention it gives us some great material to listen to along the way.