Digital Archivist

Learning to convert vinyl to digital is, for the most part, the same job as capturing any analogue audio — play it, record it...

You did everything the capture articles asked. You found a deck, you tapped the RF, you sat through a transfer in real time, and...

You finally captured the family tapes, you open the first file, and your heart sinks a little. There is a line near the top...

You've pulled a box down from the loft or out from under a bed, and the moment you open it you know something's off....

Wondering about the best VCR for vhs-decode? Somewhere along the way, "doing vhs-decode properly" picked up a reputation for needing a rare, immaculate S-VHS...

Wondering how to preserve family photos for the long term? This is Part II of the family-archive series. Part I covered the backup half...

Walk into the spare room of someone who has started preserving the family's old media, and you tend to find the same scene. A...

Why generative AI tools can't recover what was never on the tape — the structural argument, the narrow places AI does help, and the two-master discipline that resolves the question.

If you've already decided that vhs-decode is the right tool for your tapes, the next question lands almost immediately: which capture hardware should I...

Sooner or later, anyone who spends a bit of time reading about tape preservation runs into the term vhs-decode. Sometimes it's a forum post...