[game_preservation] Archivist's Burden

[Jim Leonard]

Mike Melanson wrote:

> Rachel "Sheepy" Donahue wrote:

>> When/if you do decide to preserve the audio separately, the 

>> International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

>> recommends WAV or BWF. Regardless of format, they and ARSC recommend a 

>> sampling rate of at least 96 kHz with 24 bit resolution.

> 

> If you're digitizing from an analog source, 96 kHz/24-bit might be 

> warranted. But this is just redbook CD audio which is already digital 

> and is natively 44.1 kHz/16-bit stereo. That's what I would compress from.


...unless you don't have access to the digital original, in which case 
you should use 24/96 to account for sampling period overlap.  Or maybe 
because hard drives are the cheapest they've ever been in history.
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