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Scanning in liner notes

#1 Post by CountBasi » Mon Dec 13, 2010 1:40 pm

What methods do people use to scan in liner notes?

What about when the liner notes are not suitable for A4 or smaller?

I have the liner notes for a Mosaic set (Bix, Tram, Jackson 24-36) but because of the size and that it's square, I'm looking for suggestions on getting the pages scanned into digitised form.

Thanks!
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#2 Post by lipi » Mon Dec 13, 2010 6:46 pm

http://www.swingdjs.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2484

with, admittedly, a ridiculous subject line that makes it unfindable unless you already know it's there.

Aside: if you want the session details (no notes or photographs), you can download many of the Mosaic ones: all the in-print ones are at Mosaic's site, many of the OOP ones are at livingwithmusic.com (uh...currently down) or organissimo.org/forum.

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#3 Post by CountBasi » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:27 pm

Thank you very much. Yes I did do a search first and it returned the 42 pages thread on 'Laptop DJing' :lol:

I was on Mosaic's site earlier today and didn't even see on there what you say is downloadable. I will go and have another look. I would like to also get the notes and pictures as well though, there are some really good ones in the booklet.

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#4 Post by lipi » Sat Dec 18, 2010 11:36 am

CountBasi wrote: I was on Mosaic's site earlier today and didn't even see on there what you say is downloadable. I will go and have another look. I would like to also get the notes and pictures as well though, there are some really good ones in the booklet.
Select a set, then scroll past the few paragraphs describing it, just before the comments and reviews from customers. It'll say "Track Listing, Personnel & Recording Dates". Here's the discography from the Armstrong Decca set, for instance:
http://www.mosaicrecords.com/discoprint ... =243-MD-CD

Here's the mention on organissimo of the OOP pdf ones someone collected:
http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index. ... saic-sets/
The livingwithmusic site is unfortunately down right now.

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Re: Scanning in liner notes

#5 Post by jcunningham » Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:10 pm

CountBasi wrote:What methods do people use to scan in liner notes?

What about when the liner notes are not suitable for A4 or smaller?

I have the liner notes for a Mosaic set (Bix, Tram, Jackson 24-36) but because of the size and that it's square, I'm looking for suggestions on getting the pages scanned into digitised form.

Thanks!
I've scanned the covers and liners of my Classics discs. I set the DPI to 300 and used PNG so that the quality would be good. So far I'm pleased :D

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#6 Post by CountBasi » Tue Dec 21, 2010 5:48 pm

Yeah this is all good, but the dimensions of the Mosaic booklets are nowhere near those of Classics CDs. I think I need to pursue a more 'industrial' option, like phoning around a few local big hitters and specialists (I mean, real specialists, not Kinko's, etc), and seeing what they can do.
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#7 Post by dogpossum » Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:25 pm

CountBasi wrote:Yeah this is all good, but the dimensions of the Mosaic booklets are nowhere near those of Classics CDs. I think I need to pursue a more 'industrial' option, like phoning around a few local big hitters and specialists (I mean, real specialists, not Kinko's, etc), and seeing what they can do.
Bizarrely, this discussion overlaps with my qualifications in digital preservation. There are groups/businesses which specialise in creating digital copies of paper items. They do high quality scans or photos, and produce a really sweet set of files. They do, however, tend to cater to the needs of museums, libraries and other institutions, so they might actually be offering more than you need and at a price beyond your range. I'm not sure where you are or what sort of services are on offer in your area, but a reasonably sized museum in your area would probably be all SQUEE about talking about this stuff with you.

The nerdy digital curator in me wants to ask you about migrating your digital files between formats, using shareware formats and software and ensuring you have lots of backed up copies. To be sure you can access and use your files in the future.

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#8 Post by CountBasi » Tue Dec 21, 2010 6:44 pm

Now this is a great lead - i am in Portland, Oregon. Northwest USA.

There are definitely museums of the size I think you're inferring about here.

I would never have thought of going down this route - thanks!
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#9 Post by lipi » Tue Dec 21, 2010 8:03 pm

That reminds me: large university libraries are another good place to check.

And Sam has a good point: if I were to do this (I'm not--just ripping my discs is taking enough time) I would use a lossless format like PackBits (in a TIFF wrapper, probably) to make future re-encoding more palatable.

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#10 Post by CountBasi » Mon Jan 10, 2011 4:06 pm

Mission impossible ---> mission accomplished!

Thanks Sam and Lipi!

PSU (Portland State Uni) library have a scanner that let me scan my Mosaic booklets into a pdf. I'm happy with the quality they've come out to. Defintely a happy ending to this story here :)

Thanks again!
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