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User:Fuchur

2024-11-29T16:38:15Z

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Grüezi. I'm '''Carl Flisch''' (Pseudo: ''Fuchur''). My work focuses on the digitization of public domain music and the copyright investigation of 78 rpm gramophone records. Visit my '''[[Commons:Special:ListFiles/Pdproject |uploads]]''' inside the Wikimedia Commons. I'm a member of [http://members.wikimedia.ch/User:Pdproject Wikimedia Switzerland].

== Projects ==
=== Swiss Internet Radio ===
Swiss Internet Radio (former: RadioCrazy Classical&Jazz) is a legal Internet Radio Service founded in 2002. The program offering is divided into two profit centers:

* Public Domain Radio (public domain music streams)
* swissradio (music streams with copyrighted music)

For the copyrighted music we have to pay fees to the Copyright collecting societies in Switzerland. Read more: '''[[Wikipedia:de:RadioCrazy_Classical%26Jazz|here]]'''

=== IG Schweizer Internetradio ===
The Swiss Internet Radio Association is the users association of the Swiss webcasters. I've founded the organization in 2004. Read more: '''[[Wikipedia:de:IG_Schweizer_Internetradio|here]]'''

=== Swiss Foundation Public Domain ===
Intended as a backlash to the heated copyright debate between the webcasters and the music industry, Philippe and I started in 2009 with the Public Domain Project. Today our archives includes over 50,000 78 rpm records, cylinders and discs of Edison and Pathé that we have to clean and digitize. In 2010 Wikimedia Deutschland sponsored a ELP Laser turntable. Base for the digitization work. Since December 2012, we are officially a charitable foundation. Find a deeper view '''[http://www.publicdomain.ch here]'''

== Hobbies ==
My garden of historical roses, cooking, mountain hiking, my actual music collection, trail running, rockhounding, swimming


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User:Fuchur

2024-11-29T16:37:59Z

Fuchur: /* Hobbies */

2022-03-08T20:58:24Z

Fuchur:

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| style="font-weight:normal; color:#708090;padding: 2px" | <div align="justify">The '''Musical Heritage Organization''' is collecting analogue and digital sound recordings. Sounds, which are in the '''public domain''', are digitized by '''Sounds.Earth''' (former CC-Zero-Project).<br><br>Creative works of literature, science and art are subject to copyright law. Works in the [[Wikipedia:Public domain|public domain]] are those whose intellectual property rights have expired. With the help of volunteers, our team cleans, [[:pool:Special:NewPages|cataloged]] and [[:pool:Category:FLAC sound files|digitized]] 78 rpm gramophone- and early vinyl records. After the [[Library of the Public Domain Project|clearing of copyrights]], [[:pool:Category:PD EU 2022|free works]] are available inside our [[:pool:Category:Audio file licenses|media pool]] and Wikimedia Commons ([[:Commons:Special:ListFiles/Namrood|CC-Zero-Project]], [[:Commons:Special:ListFiles/Pdproject|PD Project]]), compressed in [[Wikipedia:FLAC|FLAC]] without any loss in quality (24-bit/192kHz). Help us with a [[:pool:PD:General_disclaimer#Donations|donation]] to preserve our cultural heritage! Thank you very much. Similar projects and interested people around the globe are warmly welcome to join the [[Wikipedia:Meta:Wikimedia Digitization User Group|Wikimedia Digitization User Group]] which we have co-founded in 2015.</div><br><div align="center">
'''[[:pool:Category:FLAC sound files|CLICK HERE]]''' to download '''PUBLIC DOMAIN SOUND'''<br><br>Music with '''Helvetica content''' is actually located '''[[:pool:Category:Helvetica|HERE]]''' but we would like to transfer all '''[http://www.swisssounds.com Swiss Sounds]''' to a website'''</div>
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|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-14.jpeg|250 px|thumb|left|Equalizing of 78 rpm records]][[File:Archive-Hinwil-9.jpeg|250 px|thumb|left|Inventory of the 78 rpm grammophone records with the self-built Macro Photography Stand (Nikon D610 and the Nikkor f/2.8 60mm Macro lens)]][[File:Archive-Hinwil-12.jpeg|250 px|thumb|left|Closer view of the DSLR and the self-built mounting]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-6.jpeg|250 px|thumb|left|Digitization station with ELP laser turntable and RME Fireface 800 in Hinwil]][[File:Archive-Romanshorn-1.jpeg|250 px|thumb|left|Digitization station with Numark TTX and RME Fireface 800 in Romanshorn]][[File:Archive-Wetzikon-1.jpeg|250 px|thumb|left|Dual-RCM of Keith Monks Audio Laboratories]][[File:Archive-Hinwil-8.jpeg|250 px|thumb|left|KMAL in Action with Polydor 78 rpm 12-inch record]]
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Laser turntable

2022-02-23T21:25:40Z

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[[File:Goldlt-1200px2.jpg|400px|right|thumb|ELP (Edison Laser Player)]]
A '''laser turntable''' is a [[Wikipedia:en:phonograph|phonograph]] that plays [[Wikipedia:en:gramophone record|gramophone record]]s using a laser beam as the [[Wikipedia:en:Phonograph#Pickup_systems|pickup]] instead of a conventional diamond-tipped [[Wikipedia:en:stylus|stylus]]. This playback system has the unique advantage of avoiding physical contact with the record during playback; instead, a focused beam of light traces the signal undulations in the vinyl, with zero friction, mass and record wear. Vinyl LPs played with a laser playback system can theoretically "last forever" as there is no deterioration caused by passing a stylus through the grooves.

Current laser turntables can play most varieties of phonograph records (45s, 33.3 [[Wikipedia:en:LP album|LPs]], or 78s), and play them with high fidelity. Although quite expensive, they are favored by the record libraries and radio stations for archival use and transcription to digital media.

== History ==
The laser turntable was first conceived by Robert S. Reis, a graduate student at [[Wikipedia:en:Stanford University|Stanford University]] (his master's thesis was "An Optical Turntable"). In 1983 Reis and fellow Stanford engineer Robert E. Stoddard founded Finial Technology with $7 million in [[Wikipedia:en:venture capital|venture capital]]. A year later servo-control expert [[Wikipedia:en:The Bobs|Robert N. Stark]] joined the effort. A non-functioning mock-up of the optical turntable was shown at the 1984 [[Wikipedia:en:Consumer Electronics Show|Consumer Electronics Show]] (CES), generating much interest and a fair amount of mystery, since the patents had not yet been granted and the details had to be kept secret. The first working model, the Finial LT-1, was completed two years later and presented at the 1986 CES. The prototype had an interesting flaw: it was so accurate that it played every particle of dirt and dust on the record, rather than pushing them aside as a conventional stylus would. The projected $2500 street price (raised to $3786 in 1988) limited the potential market to serious well-heeled audiophiles.

Unfortunately for Finial, its project coincided with the introduction of the Digital [[Wikipedia:en:CD|Compact Disc]], which began flooding the market at prices comparable to LPs (with CD players in the $300 range). Vinyl record sales plummeted, and many turntable manufacturers failed as a result.

The Finial turntable never went into mass production. Tooling delays, component unavailability (in the days before cheap lasers), marketing blunders, and high development costs prevented it. With over US$20 million in venture capital invested, Finial was faced with a [[Wikipedia:en:Morton's Fork|Morton's fork]]: to forge ahead with a selling price that was too high for most consumers, or to gamble on going into mass production at a much lower price at the very moment the bottom was dropping out of the market and the economy was in recession. In late 1989 Finial's investors finally succumbed to their unfortunate timing and liquidated the firm, selling the patents to Japanese turntable maker, which became CTI Japan which in turn created [[Wikipedia:en:ELPJ|ELP Japan]] for continued development of the "super-audiophile" turntable. It was finally put on sale in 1997 as the ELP LT-1XA Laser Turntable, with a list price of US$20,500 prices start at US$10,000). The device was marketed especially as a tool for professional customers such as radio stations that wished to digitize their vinyl stock during the transition to an all-digital environment.

The US [[Wikipedia:en:Library of Congress|Library of Congress]] and other US agencies are sponsoring projects to develop two-dimensional (IRENE) and three-dimensional scanners to recover audio information from mechanical recordings. These are [[Wikipedia:en:bespoke|bespoke]] machines intended to recover historical recordings, rather than intended commercial products.

== ELPJ laser turntable: technical details ==
**LT-1LRC - US$12,000 - 33, 45 - 7", 10", 12"
**LT-1XRC - US$15,300 - 33, 45, 78 - 7", 10", 12"
**LT-2XRC - US$16,400 - 33, 45, 78 - 7", 8", 9", 10", 11", 12"
* The laser pickup uses five beams—one on each channel to track the sides of the groove, one on each channel to pick up the sound (just below the tracking beams), and a fifth to track the surface of the record and keep the pickup at a constant height, which allows for record thickness and warping.
* The lasers focus on a section of the groove above the level where a conventional stylus will have traveled, and below the typical depth of surface scratches, giving the possibility of like-new reproduction even from worn or scratched records.
* The pickup output is [[Wikipedia:en:analogue electronics|analogue]]: the signal path is never [[Wikipedia:en:Digitizing|digitized]].
* Using a laser pickup eliminates many problems associated with physical styli: record wear, horizontal tracking angle error, [[Wikipedia:en:rumble measurement|turntable rumble]], leveling adjustment inaccuracies, inner groove distortion, channel-balance error, stereo [[Wikipedia:en:Crosstalk (electronics)|crosstalk]], anti-skating compensation, [[Wikipedia:en:Audio feedback|acoustic feedback]], skipping, locked-groove problems, problems tracking warped, cracked, or eccentric records and cartridge hum pickup.
[[File:Elp-rme-02.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Digitizing: ELP Laser turntable and RME Fireface 800]]
* The laser turntable is extraordinarily sensitive to record cleanliness and will play exactly what it sees—a speck of dirt is treated as if it were part of the record surface.
* When an LP is inserted into the tray drawer and the drawer closed, the turntable reads the surface of the LP, displaying the number of tracks. Users can then program which tracks to play, or repeat, much as a CD player operates.
* The [[Wikipedia:en:laser diode|laser diode]] has a typical life of 10,000 hours of use, compared to the 500 hours of playback recommended for a diamond stylus or 50 hours for a sapphire one.
* Versions of the ELPJ laser turntable will play back analogue disc records at any speed from 30 to 90 RPM (+/- 0.1 RPM) and of any size from.
* The record must be black; coloured, transparent or translucent records cannot be played<ref>[http://www.elpj.com/customer/qa.html ELP FAQ]</ref>.
* ELP state that they had sold 1300 units by 2007

== References ==
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== External links ==
* [http://www.elpj.com/about/ ELPJ - About the laser turntable]
* [http://www.elpj.com/about/history.php History of the Laser turntable and ELP Corporation]

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Laser turntable

2022-02-23T21:25:20Z

Fuchur:

2022-01-29T20:40:23Z

Fuchur:

The '''CC-Zero-Project''' is the former digitization project of the '''[[Musical Heritage Organization]]'''. Under the new name '''[[Sounds.Earth]]''' will continued the project his activities to make available [[Wikipedia:Public domain|public domain]] sound recordings to any people on Earth.

== Metrics and Reports ==
* [[wikipedia:meta:Digitization Projects/CC-Zero-Project|Wikimedia Digitization User Group:CC-Zero-Project]] (Meta-Wiki)

CC-Zero-Project

2022-01-29T20:38:35Z

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The '''CC-Zero-Project''' is the former digitization project of the Musical Heritage Organization. Under the new name '''Sounds.Earth''' will continued the project his activities to make available [[Wikipedia:Public domain|public domain]] sound recordings to any people on Earth.

== Metrics and Reports ==
* [[wikipedia:meta:Digitization Projects/CC-Zero-Project|Wikimedia Digitization User Group:CC-Zero-Project]] (Meta-Wiki)

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2022-01-29T20:31:39Z

Fuchur:

Sounds.Earth

2022-01-29T20:29:32Z

Fuchur:

'''Sounds.Earth''' (former CC-Zero-Project) is the digitization project of the Musical Heritage Organization.

=== Digitization and Records Cleaning ===
Cleaning of 78 rpm Gramophone records and Vinyl with the Keith Monks Audio Laboratories Dual-Recod Cleaning machine. Digitization with the ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA and the Numark TTX turntable.

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|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-13.jpeg|350 px|thumbs|right|]]
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=== Rightsclearing ===
Carl has collected hundreds of music books during his music studies. Most important are the Encyclopedic Discographies of each Record label, mainly written and illustrated from other music historians and collectors. Biographies of music authors are published in the New Grove Dicitonary of Music and Musicians, the Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and Wikpedia. For US authors we have to check the status in the Catalog of Copyright Entries published by the US Copyright Office.

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|[[File:Encyclopedia-Rueti-1.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|center|]]
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== Inspection ==
The Sounds.Earth is continuing the idea behind the Public Domain Project in 2009. Do not waste time and money in the inventory and cataloging. It's a learning by doing concept:

* Inspection of material to digitize that could be in the public domain
* Enter the information from the record inside a database (we are planning our own Wikidata instance)
* Cleaning the record with a RCM (Record Cleaning Machine)
* Selection of the correct equalizer setting of the 78 rpm grammophone record
* Digitization of the record
* Reduce the metadata information fields to a minimum
* Check the copyright status
* Upload the audio file (24-Bit, 192 kHz, FLAC) to Wikimedia Commons good documented with references

=== Wikimedia Commons Upload statistics ===
* '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Pdproject|Uploads]]''' for the Public Domain Project until 2018
* '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Namrood|Uploads]]''' for the CC-Zero-Project (2020-2021) and for Sounds.Earth from 2022

== Continous Workflow ==
Carl has been specialized in the digitization and rightsclearing of historical audio documents for eleven years. The processes and procedures have been continuously improved through his daily work. It is very difficult to find sponsors and at the same time to provide a continous workflow of high-quality digitized audio files with error-free metadata fields, well-documented informations about the 78 rpm records and finally the rightsclearing with irrefutable evidence that the recording is actually in the public domain.

== Equalizing ==
'''Sounds.Earth''' is using three different phono preamplifiers. This means that the audio signals can be processed in the best possible quality by taking the correct equalizer setting. Acoustic and electrical recordings before 1925 had no cutting characteristics. Smaller labels only began to standardize their recordings in the mid-of the 1930s. Before the introduction of the RIAA equalization in 1955 there was no standardization. There was wild growth.

* [https://www.hifisystemcomponents.com/about/reproducing-old-records.html Reproducing Old Records]
* [https://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?534 Equalize and digitize 78 rpm records] (German)

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== Metrics and Reports ==
* [[wikipedia:meta:Digitization Projects/CC-Zero-Project|Wikimedia Digitization User Group:CC-Zero-Project]] (Meta-Wiki)

Sounds.Earth

2022-01-29T20:28:43Z

Fuchur: /* Wikimedia Commons Upload statistics */

Sounds.Earth (former CC-Zero-Project) is the digitization project of the Musical Heritage Organization.

=== Digitization and Records Cleaning ===
Cleaning of 78 rpm Gramophone records and Vinyl with the Keith Monks Audio Laboratories Dual-Recod Cleaning machine. Digitization with the ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA and the Numark TTX turntable.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Rcm-km-gemini-mk3.jpg|350 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:14037188613_8b15982118_o.jpg|350 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-13.jpeg|350 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Rightsclearing ===
Carl has collected hundreds of music books during his music studies. Most important are the Encyclopedic Discographies of each Record label, mainly written and illustrated from other music historians and collectors. Biographies of music authors are published in the New Grove Dicitonary of Music and Musicians, the Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and Wikpedia. For US authors we have to check the status in the Catalog of Copyright Entries published by the US Copyright Office.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Encyclopedia-Rueti-1.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|center|]]
|}

== Inspection ==
The Sounds.Earth is continuing the idea behind the Public Domain Project in 2009. Do not waste time and money in the inventory and cataloging. It's a learning by doing concept:

* Inspection of material to digitize that could be in the public domain
* Enter the information from the record inside a database (we are planning our own Wikidata instance)
* Cleaning the record with a RCM (Record Cleaning Machine)
* Selection of the correct equalizer setting of the 78 rpm grammophone record
* Digitization of the record
* Reduce the metadata information fields to a minimum
* Check the copyright status
* Upload the audio file (24-Bit, 192 kHz, FLAC) to Wikimedia Commons good documented with references

=== Wikimedia Commons Upload statistics ===
* '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Pdproject|Uploads]]''' for the Public Domain Project until 2018
* '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Namrood|Uploads]]''' for the CC-Zero-Project (2020-2021) and for Sounds.Earth from 2022

== Continous Workflow ==
Carl has been specialized in the digitization and rightsclearing of historical audio documents for eleven years. The processes and procedures have been continuously improved through his daily work. It is very difficult to find sponsors and at the same time to provide a continous workflow of high-quality digitized audio files with error-free metadata fields, well-documented informations about the 78 rpm records and finally the rightsclearing with irrefutable evidence that the recording is actually in the public domain.

== Equalizing ==
'''Sounds.Earth''' is using three different phono preamplifiers. This means that the audio signals can be processed in the best possible quality by taking the correct equalizer setting. Acoustic and electrical recordings before 1925 had no cutting characteristics. Smaller labels only began to standardize their recordings in the mid-of the 1930s. Before the introduction of the RIAA equalization in 1955 there was no standardization. There was wild growth.

* [https://www.hifisystemcomponents.com/about/reproducing-old-records.html Reproducing Old Records]
* [https://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?534 Equalize and digitize 78 rpm records] (German)

{| cellpadding="1"
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|}

== Metrics and Reports ==
* [[wikipedia:meta:Digitization Projects/CC-Zero-Project|Wikimedia Digitization User Group:CC-Zero-Project]] (Meta-Wiki)

Sounds.Earth

2022-01-29T20:27:58Z

Fuchur: Created page with "Sounds.Earth (former CC-Zero-Project) is the digitization project of the Musical Heritage Organization. === Digitization and Records Cleaning === Cleaning of 78 rpm Gramophon..."

Sounds.Earth (former CC-Zero-Project) is the digitization project of the Musical Heritage Organization.

=== Digitization and Records Cleaning ===
Cleaning of 78 rpm Gramophone records and Vinyl with the Keith Monks Audio Laboratories Dual-Recod Cleaning machine. Digitization with the ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA and the Numark TTX turntable.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Rcm-km-gemini-mk3.jpg|350 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:14037188613_8b15982118_o.jpg|350 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-13.jpeg|350 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Rightsclearing ===
Carl has collected hundreds of music books during his music studies. Most important are the Encyclopedic Discographies of each Record label, mainly written and illustrated from other music historians and collectors. Biographies of music authors are published in the New Grove Dicitonary of Music and Musicians, the Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and Wikpedia. For US authors we have to check the status in the Catalog of Copyright Entries published by the US Copyright Office.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Encyclopedia-Rueti-1.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|center|]]
|}

== Inspection ==
The Sounds.Earth is continuing the idea behind the Public Domain Project in 2009. Do not waste time and money in the inventory and cataloging. It's a learning by doing concept:

* Inspection of material to digitize that could be in the public domain
* Enter the information from the record inside a database (we are planning our own Wikidata instance)
* Cleaning the record with a RCM (Record Cleaning Machine)
* Selection of the correct equalizer setting of the 78 rpm grammophone record
* Digitization of the record
* Reduce the metadata information fields to a minimum
* Check the copyright status
* Upload the audio file (24-Bit, 192 kHz, FLAC) to Wikimedia Commons good documented with references

=== Wikimedia Commons Upload statistics ===
* '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Pdproject|Uploads]]''' for the Public Domain Project until 2018
* '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Namrood|Uploads]]''' for the CC-Zero-Project (2020-2021) and for Eounds.earth from 2022

== Continous Workflow ==
Carl has been specialized in the digitization and rightsclearing of historical audio documents for eleven years. The processes and procedures have been continuously improved through his daily work. It is very difficult to find sponsors and at the same time to provide a continous workflow of high-quality digitized audio files with error-free metadata fields, well-documented informations about the 78 rpm records and finally the rightsclearing with irrefutable evidence that the recording is actually in the public domain.

== Equalizing ==
'''Sounds.Earth''' is using three different phono preamplifiers. This means that the audio signals can be processed in the best possible quality by taking the correct equalizer setting. Acoustic and electrical recordings before 1925 had no cutting characteristics. Smaller labels only began to standardize their recordings in the mid-of the 1930s. Before the introduction of the RIAA equalization in 1955 there was no standardization. There was wild growth.

* [https://www.hifisystemcomponents.com/about/reproducing-old-records.html Reproducing Old Records]
* [https://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?534 Equalize and digitize 78 rpm records] (German)

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== Metrics and Reports ==
* [[wikipedia:meta:Digitization Projects/CC-Zero-Project|Wikimedia Digitization User Group:CC-Zero-Project]] (Meta-Wiki)

Musical Heritage Organization

2022-01-29T20:20:35Z

Fuchur: Created page with "The '''Musical Heritage Organization''' is an association that collects musicological worth protecting analogue and digital sound recordings. Our goal is the free availability..."

The '''Musical Heritage Organization''' is an association that collects musicological worth protecting analogue and digital sound recordings. Our goal is the free availability of public domain related content like music, sound or voice recordings.

== Background ==
After the activities of ''Carl Flisch-Aghayan'' as an entrepreneur between 1988 and 1998 in the film- and music industry, he have founded after the millenium an Internet Radio Service to broadcast parts of his music collection which he built up since 1977. The focus was on the purchase of rarities that are significant in musicology. The collection contains today 2'000 phonograph cylinders, 36'000 78 rpm gramophone records, 25'000 vinyl discs, 15'000 compact discs and 500 laserdiscs. After long time spending to discuss with the collecting societies to create a contract for amateur broadcasters, the next step was to set up the Swiss Internet Radio Association. In 2009 he founded with a friend (expert of copyright law) the Public Domain Project, today a music archive and online library with 70'000 gramophone records. He left the Swiss Foundation Public Domain in the end of 2019.

== Collection Overview ==
The main part of the collection is classical music between the baroque era and the 21st century in their variety of musical forms: chamber-, dance-, orchestral music, performing arts, piano pieces, sacred and secular vocal music. The 2nd largest part is jazz and swing music. During Carl's business activities in the 1990s in the Middle East and West Africa he have started to collect rare ethnical vocal recordings and folk music. In the 2000s he began systematically to buy the earliest sound recordings, mainly phonograph cylinders of Edison and Pathé. His collection of phonograph cylinders was classified by Memoriav in 2016 as particularly valuable and therefore worth protecting. He found all kinds of oddities on record fairs and flea markets in Australia, Canada, England and the United States. His attempt to export a custom-made salon horn to Europe for an Edison Triumph phonograph failed due to local airline regulations in Amarillo, Texas.

=== [[:pool:Category:Archive in Hinwil|Archive in Hinwil]] ===
The main archive is located in Hinwil ZH and contains mainly Classical music.

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== Last Larger Collection Expansions ==
=== Relocations in April 2020 ===
* The special assorted collection contains 18'000 Choral-, Orchestral- and piano works in "excellent" quality. It means the recordings are not often played. Many are rarely to find

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-0.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-1.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-2.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Relocations in 2021 ===
* The Swissjazzorama donated us over hundred rare discs of Enrico Caruso and Swiss folk music of the Duo Marthely Mumenthaler and Vrenely Pfyl, Rudolf «Ruedi» Rymann and Lys Assia
* More than 500 gramophone records and 2000 vinyl discs were delivered by a friend in the Bernese Oberland that owns a wholesale distribution
* Over 2400 gramophone records arrived from various donations and 2000 gramophone records are purchased
* Approx. 4000 vinyl discs of classical music were donated from a retired professor of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
* Approx. 1000 vinyl discs of classical music were donated from the Swiss Foundation Public Domain in Rüti ZH

=== Relocations in January 2022 ===
* 1'000 grammophone records were purchased from a shop in Zurich. We received a collection of 400 records from Latin- and South America in alphabetical order from an inheritance. The shop owner is a friend of Carl and have gifted us also many hundred records, including of operatic soprano Amelita Galli-Curci and of operatic tenors Enrico Caruso and Benjamino Gigli. Some records of Yma Sumac, two very rare Ngoma discs of the Belgian Kongo, some discs of Brazillian and Argentinian musicians and various Rock 'N' Roll discs were donated to our sound archives.

CC-Zero-Project

2022-01-28T11:04:35Z

Fuchur: /* Relocations in January 2022 */

The CC-Zero-Project is an ambitious project that collects musicological worth protecting analogue and digital sound recordings. Our goal is the free availability of public domain related content like music, sound or voice recordings.

== Background ==
After my activities as an entrepreneur between 1988 and 1998 in the film- and music industry, I have founded after the millenium an Internet Radio Service to broadcast parts of my music collection which I built up since 1977. The focus was on the purchase of rarities that are significant in musicology. The collection contains today 2'000 phonograph cylinders, 36'000 78 rpm gramophone records, 25'000 vinyl discs, 15'000 compact discs and 500 laserdiscs. After long time spending to discuss with the collecting societies to create a contract for amateur broadcasters, the next step was to set up the Swiss Internet Radio Association. In 2009 I founded with a friend (expert of copyright law) the Public Domain Project, today a music archive and online library with 70'000 gramophone records. I left the Swiss Foundation Public Domain in the end of 2019.

== Collection Overview ==
The main part of the collection is classical music between the baroque era and the 21st century in their variety of musical forms: chamber-, dance-, orchestral music, performing arts, piano pieces, sacred and secular vocal music. The 2nd largest part is jazz and swing music. During my business activities in the 1990s in the Middle East and West Africa I have started to collect rare ethnical vocal recordings and folk music. In the 2000s I began systematically to buy the earliest sound recordings, mainly phonograph cylinders of Edison and Pathé. My collection of phonograph cylinders was classified by Memoriav in 2016 as particularly valuable and therefore worth protecting. I found all kinds of oddities on record fairs and flea markets in Australia, Canada, England and the United States. My attempt to export a custom-made salon horn to Europe for an Edison Triumph phonograph failed due to local airline regulations in Amarillo, Texas.

=== [[:pool:Category:Archive in Hinwil|Archive in Hinwil]] ===
The main archive is located in Hinwil ZH and contains mainly Classical music.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-1.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-3.jpeg|224 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-4.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Digitization and Records Cleaning ===
Cleaning of 78 rpm Gramophone records and Vinyl with the Keith Monks Audio Laboratories Dual-Recod Cleaning machine. Digitization with the ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA and the Numark TTX turntable.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Rcm-km-gemini-mk3.jpg|350 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:14037188613_8b15982118_o.jpg|350 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-13.jpeg|350 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Rightsclearing ===
Hundreds of books I have collected during my music studies. Most important are the Encyclopedic Discographies of each Record label, mainly written and illustrated from other music historians and collectors. Biographies of music authors are published in the New Grove Dicitonary of Music and Musicians, the Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and Wikpedia. For US authors I have to check the status in the Catalog of Copyright Entries published by the US Copyright Office.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Encyclopedia-Rueti-1.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|center|]]
|}

== Last Larger Collection Expansions ==
=== Relocations in April 2020 ===
* The special assorted collection contains 18'000 Choral-, Orchestral- and piano works in "excellent" quality. It means the recordings are not often played. Many are rarely to find

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-0.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-1.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-2.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Relocations in 2021 ===
* The Swissjazzorama donated us over hundred rare discs of Enrico Caruso and Swiss folk music of the Duo Marthely Mumenthaler and Vrenely Pfyl, Rudolf «Ruedi» Rymann and Lys Assia
* More than 500 gramophone records and 2000 vinyl discs were delivered by a friend in the Bernese Oberland that owns a wholesale distribution
* Over 2400 gramophone records arrived from various donations and 2000 gramophone records are purchased
* Approx. 4000 vinyl discs of classical music were donated from a retired professor of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
* Approx. 1000 vinyl discs of classical music were donated from the Swiss Foundation Public Domain in Rüti ZH

=== Relocations in January 2022 ===
* 1'000 grammophone records were purchased from a shop in Zurich. We received a collection of 400 records from Latin- and South America in alphabetical order from an inheritance. The shop owner is a friend and have gifted us also many hundred records, including of operatic soprano Amelita Galli-Curci and of operatic tenors Enrico Caruso and Benjamino Gigli. Some records of Yma Sumac, two very rare Ngoma discs of the Belgian Kongo, some discs of Brazillian and Argentinian musicians and various Rock 'N' Roll discs were donated to our sound archives.

== Inspection ==
The CC-Zero-Project is continuing the idea behind the Public Domain Project in 2009. Do not waste time and money in the inventory and cataloging. It's a learning by doing concept:

* Inspection of material to digitize that could be in the public domain
* Enter the information from the record inside a database (we are planning our own Wikidata instance)
* Cleaning the record with a RCM (Record Cleaning Machine)
* Selection of the correct equalizer setting of the 78 rpm grammophone record
* Digitization of the record
* Reduce the metadata information fields to a minimum
* Check the copyright status
* Upload the audio file (24-Bit, 192 kHz, FLAC) to Wikimedia Commons good documented with references

=== Wikimedia Commons Upload statistics ===
* My '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Pdproject|Uploads]]''' for the Public Domain Project until 2018
* My '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Namrood|Uploads]]''' for the CC-Zero-Project since 2020

== Continous Workflow ==
I have been specializing in the digitization and rightsclearing of historical audio documents for eleven years. The processes and procedures have been continuously improved through my daily work. It is very difficult to find sponsors and at the same time to provide a continous workflow of high-quality digitized audio files with error-free metadata fields, well-documented informations about the 78 rpm records and finally the rightsclearing with irrefutable evidence that the recording is actually in the public domain.

== Equalizing ==
The CC-Zero-Project is using three different phono preamplifiers. This means that the audio signals can be processed in the best possible quality by taking the correct equalizer setting. Acoustic and electrical recordings before 1925 had no cutting characteristics. Smaller labels only began to standardize their recordings in the mid-of the 1930s. Before the introduction of the RIAA equalization in 1955 there was no standardization. There was wild growth.

* [https://www.hifisystemcomponents.com/about/reproducing-old-records.html Reproducing Old Records]
* [https://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?534 Equalize and digitize 78 rpm records] (German)

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-14.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|center|]]
|}

== Metrics and Reports ==
* [[wikipedia:meta:Digitization Projects/CC-Zero-Project|Wikimedia Digitization User Group:CC-Zero-Project]] (Meta-Wiki)

CC-Zero-Project

2022-01-28T11:03:14Z

Fuchur: /* Relocations in January 2022 */

The CC-Zero-Project is an ambitious project that collects musicological worth protecting analogue and digital sound recordings. Our goal is the free availability of public domain related content like music, sound or voice recordings.

== Background ==
After my activities as an entrepreneur between 1988 and 1998 in the film- and music industry, I have founded after the millenium an Internet Radio Service to broadcast parts of my music collection which I built up since 1977. The focus was on the purchase of rarities that are significant in musicology. The collection contains today 2'000 phonograph cylinders, 36'000 78 rpm gramophone records, 25'000 vinyl discs, 15'000 compact discs and 500 laserdiscs. After long time spending to discuss with the collecting societies to create a contract for amateur broadcasters, the next step was to set up the Swiss Internet Radio Association. In 2009 I founded with a friend (expert of copyright law) the Public Domain Project, today a music archive and online library with 70'000 gramophone records. I left the Swiss Foundation Public Domain in the end of 2019.

== Collection Overview ==
The main part of the collection is classical music between the baroque era and the 21st century in their variety of musical forms: chamber-, dance-, orchestral music, performing arts, piano pieces, sacred and secular vocal music. The 2nd largest part is jazz and swing music. During my business activities in the 1990s in the Middle East and West Africa I have started to collect rare ethnical vocal recordings and folk music. In the 2000s I began systematically to buy the earliest sound recordings, mainly phonograph cylinders of Edison and Pathé. My collection of phonograph cylinders was classified by Memoriav in 2016 as particularly valuable and therefore worth protecting. I found all kinds of oddities on record fairs and flea markets in Australia, Canada, England and the United States. My attempt to export a custom-made salon horn to Europe for an Edison Triumph phonograph failed due to local airline regulations in Amarillo, Texas.

=== [[:pool:Category:Archive in Hinwil|Archive in Hinwil]] ===
The main archive is located in Hinwil ZH and contains mainly Classical music.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-1.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-3.jpeg|224 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-4.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Digitization and Records Cleaning ===
Cleaning of 78 rpm Gramophone records and Vinyl with the Keith Monks Audio Laboratories Dual-Recod Cleaning machine. Digitization with the ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA and the Numark TTX turntable.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Rcm-km-gemini-mk3.jpg|350 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:14037188613_8b15982118_o.jpg|350 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-13.jpeg|350 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Rightsclearing ===
Hundreds of books I have collected during my music studies. Most important are the Encyclopedic Discographies of each Record label, mainly written and illustrated from other music historians and collectors. Biographies of music authors are published in the New Grove Dicitonary of Music and Musicians, the Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and Wikpedia. For US authors I have to check the status in the Catalog of Copyright Entries published by the US Copyright Office.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Encyclopedia-Rueti-1.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|center|]]
|}

== Last Larger Collection Expansions ==
=== Relocations in April 2020 ===
* The special assorted collection contains 18'000 Choral-, Orchestral- and piano works in "excellent" quality. It means the recordings are not often played. Many are rarely to find

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-0.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-1.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-2.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Relocations in 2021 ===
* The Swissjazzorama donated us over hundred rare discs of Enrico Caruso and Swiss folk music of the Duo Marthely Mumenthaler and Vrenely Pfyl, Rudolf «Ruedi» Rymann and Lys Assia
* More than 500 gramophone records and 2000 vinyl discs were delivered by a friend in the Bernese Oberland that owns a wholesale distribution
* Over 2400 gramophone records arrived from various donations and 2000 gramophone records are purchased
* Approx. 4000 vinyl discs of classical music were donated from a retired professor of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
* Approx. 1000 vinyl discs of classical music were donated from the Swiss Foundation Public Domain in Rüti ZH

=== Relocations in January 2022 ===
* 1'000 grammophone records were purchased from a shop in Zurich. We received a collection of 400 records from Latin- and South America in alphabetical order from an inheritance. The shop owner is a friend and have gifted us also many hundred records, including of operatic soprano Amelita Galli-Curci and of operatic tenors Enrico Caruso and Benjamino Gigli. Some records of Yma Sumac, two very rare Ngoma discs of the Belgian Kongo, some discs of Brazillian and Argentinian musicians and various Rock 'N' Roll discs we have purchased for a special reduced price.

== Inspection ==
The CC-Zero-Project is continuing the idea behind the Public Domain Project in 2009. Do not waste time and money in the inventory and cataloging. It's a learning by doing concept:

* Inspection of material to digitize that could be in the public domain
* Enter the information from the record inside a database (we are planning our own Wikidata instance)
* Cleaning the record with a RCM (Record Cleaning Machine)
* Selection of the correct equalizer setting of the 78 rpm grammophone record
* Digitization of the record
* Reduce the metadata information fields to a minimum
* Check the copyright status
* Upload the audio file (24-Bit, 192 kHz, FLAC) to Wikimedia Commons good documented with references

=== Wikimedia Commons Upload statistics ===
* My '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Pdproject|Uploads]]''' for the Public Domain Project until 2018
* My '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Namrood|Uploads]]''' for the CC-Zero-Project since 2020

== Continous Workflow ==
I have been specializing in the digitization and rightsclearing of historical audio documents for eleven years. The processes and procedures have been continuously improved through my daily work. It is very difficult to find sponsors and at the same time to provide a continous workflow of high-quality digitized audio files with error-free metadata fields, well-documented informations about the 78 rpm records and finally the rightsclearing with irrefutable evidence that the recording is actually in the public domain.

== Equalizing ==
The CC-Zero-Project is using three different phono preamplifiers. This means that the audio signals can be processed in the best possible quality by taking the correct equalizer setting. Acoustic and electrical recordings before 1925 had no cutting characteristics. Smaller labels only began to standardize their recordings in the mid-of the 1930s. Before the introduction of the RIAA equalization in 1955 there was no standardization. There was wild growth.

* [https://www.hifisystemcomponents.com/about/reproducing-old-records.html Reproducing Old Records]
* [https://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?534 Equalize and digitize 78 rpm records] (German)

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-14.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|center|]]
|}

== Metrics and Reports ==
* [[wikipedia:meta:Digitization Projects/CC-Zero-Project|Wikimedia Digitization User Group:CC-Zero-Project]] (Meta-Wiki)

CC-Zero-Project

2022-01-28T10:58:17Z

Fuchur: /* Background */

The CC-Zero-Project is an ambitious project that collects musicological worth protecting analogue and digital sound recordings. Our goal is the free availability of public domain related content like music, sound or voice recordings.

== Background ==
After my activities as an entrepreneur between 1988 and 1998 in the film- and music industry, I have founded after the millenium an Internet Radio Service to broadcast parts of my music collection which I built up since 1977. The focus was on the purchase of rarities that are significant in musicology. The collection contains today 2'000 phonograph cylinders, 36'000 78 rpm gramophone records, 25'000 vinyl discs, 15'000 compact discs and 500 laserdiscs. After long time spending to discuss with the collecting societies to create a contract for amateur broadcasters, the next step was to set up the Swiss Internet Radio Association. In 2009 I founded with a friend (expert of copyright law) the Public Domain Project, today a music archive and online library with 70'000 gramophone records. I left the Swiss Foundation Public Domain in the end of 2019.

== Collection Overview ==
The main part of the collection is classical music between the baroque era and the 21st century in their variety of musical forms: chamber-, dance-, orchestral music, performing arts, piano pieces, sacred and secular vocal music. The 2nd largest part is jazz and swing music. During my business activities in the 1990s in the Middle East and West Africa I have started to collect rare ethnical vocal recordings and folk music. In the 2000s I began systematically to buy the earliest sound recordings, mainly phonograph cylinders of Edison and Pathé. My collection of phonograph cylinders was classified by Memoriav in 2016 as particularly valuable and therefore worth protecting. I found all kinds of oddities on record fairs and flea markets in Australia, Canada, England and the United States. My attempt to export a custom-made salon horn to Europe for an Edison Triumph phonograph failed due to local airline regulations in Amarillo, Texas.

=== [[:pool:Category:Archive in Hinwil|Archive in Hinwil]] ===
The main archive is located in Hinwil ZH and contains mainly Classical music.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-1.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-3.jpeg|224 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-4.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Digitization and Records Cleaning ===
Cleaning of 78 rpm Gramophone records and Vinyl with the Keith Monks Audio Laboratories Dual-Recod Cleaning machine. Digitization with the ELP Laser turntable LT-2XA and the Numark TTX turntable.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Rcm-km-gemini-mk3.jpg|350 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:14037188613_8b15982118_o.jpg|350 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-13.jpeg|350 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Rightsclearing ===
Hundreds of books I have collected during my music studies. Most important are the Encyclopedic Discographies of each Record label, mainly written and illustrated from other music historians and collectors. Biographies of music authors are published in the New Grove Dicitonary of Music and Musicians, the Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart and Wikpedia. For US authors I have to check the status in the Catalog of Copyright Entries published by the US Copyright Office.

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Encyclopedia-Rueti-1.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|center|]]
|}

== Last Larger Collection Expansions ==
=== Relocations in April 2020 ===
* The special assorted collection contains 18'000 Choral-, Orchestral- and piano works in "excellent" quality. It means the recordings are not often played. Many are rarely to find

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-0.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|left|]]
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-1.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|center|]]
|[[File:Relocation-20200420-2.jpeg|250 px|thumbs|right|]]
|}

=== Relocations in 2021 ===
* The Swissjazzorama donated us over hundred rare discs of Enrico Caruso and Swiss folk music of the Duo Marthely Mumenthaler and Vrenely Pfyl, Rudolf «Ruedi» Rymann and Lys Assia
* More than 500 gramophone records and 2000 vinyl discs were delivered by a friend in the Bernese Oberland that owns a wholesale distribution
* Over 2400 gramophone records arrived from various donations and 2000 gramophone records are purchased
* Approx. 4000 vinyl discs of classical music were donated from a retired professor of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
* Approx. 1000 vinyl discs of classical music were donated from the Swiss Foundation Public Domain in Rüti ZH

=== Relocations in January 2022 ===
* 10'000 grammophone records were purchased from a shop in Zurich. We received a complete collection from Latin- and South America in alphabetical order from an inheritance. The shop owner is a friend and have gifted us also over hundred operatic soprano recordings of Amelita Galli-Curci and operatic tenor recordings of Enrico Caruso and Benjamino Gigli. Some records of Yma Sumac, two very rare Ngoma discs of the Belgian Kongo, some discs of Brazillian and Argentinian musicians and various Rock 'N' Roll discs we have purchased for a special reduced price

== Inspection ==
The CC-Zero-Project is continuing the idea behind the Public Domain Project in 2009. Do not waste time and money in the inventory and cataloging. It's a learning by doing concept:

* Inspection of material to digitize that could be in the public domain
* Enter the information from the record inside a database (we are planning our own Wikidata instance)
* Cleaning the record with a RCM (Record Cleaning Machine)
* Selection of the correct equalizer setting of the 78 rpm grammophone record
* Digitization of the record
* Reduce the metadata information fields to a minimum
* Check the copyright status
* Upload the audio file (24-Bit, 192 kHz, FLAC) to Wikimedia Commons good documented with references

=== Wikimedia Commons Upload statistics ===
* My '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Pdproject|Uploads]]''' for the Public Domain Project until 2018
* My '''[[:commons:Special:ListFiles/Namrood|Uploads]]''' for the CC-Zero-Project since 2020

== Continous Workflow ==
I have been specializing in the digitization and rightsclearing of historical audio documents for eleven years. The processes and procedures have been continuously improved through my daily work. It is very difficult to find sponsors and at the same time to provide a continous workflow of high-quality digitized audio files with error-free metadata fields, well-documented informations about the 78 rpm records and finally the rightsclearing with irrefutable evidence that the recording is actually in the public domain.

== Equalizing ==
The CC-Zero-Project is using three different phono preamplifiers. This means that the audio signals can be processed in the best possible quality by taking the correct equalizer setting. Acoustic and electrical recordings before 1925 had no cutting characteristics. Smaller labels only began to standardize their recordings in the mid-of the 1930s. Before the introduction of the RIAA equalization in 1955 there was no standardization. There was wild growth.

* [https://www.hifisystemcomponents.com/about/reproducing-old-records.html Reproducing Old Records]
* [https://grammophon-platten.de/page.php?534 Equalize and digitize 78 rpm records] (German)

{| cellpadding="1"
|[[File:Archive-Hinwil-14.jpeg|400 px|thumbs|center|]]
|}

== Metrics and Reports ==
* [[wikipedia:meta:Digitization Projects/CC-Zero-Project|Wikimedia Digitization User Group:CC-Zero-Project]] (Meta-Wiki)

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2022-01-27T12:28:30Z

Fuchur:

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2022-01-27T12:26:59Z

Fuchur:

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2022-01-27T12:26:30Z

Fuchur:

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2022-01-27T12:24:23Z

Fuchur:

MediaWiki:Sidebar

2022-01-27T12:18:13Z

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