10,000 wax cylinders digititzed and free to download

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 9 Nov 2015 3:17 am

The University of California at Santa Barbara library has undertaken an heroic digitization effort for its world-class archive of 19th and early 20th century wax cylinder recordings, and has placed over 10,000 songs online for anyone to download, stream and re-use.

http://boingboing.net/2015/11/08/10000- ... titze.html

Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 10 Nov 2015 10:59 am

The archive seems to contain not only music from cylinders, but also from 78 RPM discs.

Hard to believe that cylinders and records once seemed as revolutionary as computers and cell phones are today.

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 10 Nov 2015 11:26 am

interesting!

Wayne Carver · Post by **Wayne Carver** » 12 Nov 2015 5:11 am

Those are cool, how do you download one to your pc? In the past I remember right clicking on the file and "save target as" and select where to put it.

OK, I went back and see there is a "download" button when you select a song to play.

Scott Duckworth · Post by **Scott Duckworth** » 12 Nov 2015 8:08 am

Wow! A blast of music and stories from the past.

Daniel McKee · Post by **Daniel McKee** » 2 Dec 2015 10:49 am

That is awesome! Im sure that was quite a task especially working with the old cylinder recordings due to how fragile they can be.