Is Internet Archive turning into a wasteland?

[Wolfe]

I visit Internet Archive only infrequently.

But it seems like on my recent stops, the 78 and cylinder uploads are getting more sporadic and often of junky quality?

[Edisone]

One particular party & his "GRINDING noises removed" record-killing overprocessing is Archive's most damaging & unfortunately prolific offenders. 99% of his uploads have been reduced to gurgling garbage. He/she/it calls itself "thegrimriper" (yes, riper) but Archive seems to have dropped the identities of uploaders. Glen Richards shut down his site because the Riper idiot was taking Glen's work & destroying it.

[Wolfe]

One particular party & his "GRINDING noises removed" record-killing overprocessing is Archive's most damaging & unfortunately prolific offenders. 99% of his uploads have been reduced to gurgling garbage. He/she/it calls itself "thegrimriper" (yes, riper) but Archive seems to have dropped the identities of uploaders. Glen Richards shut down his site because the Riper idiot was taking Glen's work & destroying it.

There's another prolific uploader there with a last name that begins with V, who appears to have a compulsion to post things that are the same. There really isn't any music left, it's just burbling noise. But he calls it a 'restoration.'

I dunno, maybe I'm not looking hard enough for the useful stuff.

[IreneDelroy78]

You can check out all the good quality recordings I uploaded at:

http://archive.org/search.php?query=cre ... pot.com%22

I was attempting to collect the recordings of all the most popular artists from the late 1920's and
early 1930's. I succeeded in completing many collections but no one seemed to be willing to help fill
in the missing recordings. It seems as if the typical collector is only interested in hoarding and
has little interest in sharing. I ended up abandoning the project because although I noticed thousands of
downloads of the things I uploaded, only a couple of people were actually helping me finish each of the
collections.

It's amusing how the recordings of people who didn't even know how to read music and who only managed to sell
a handful of records are carefully remastered and released over and over again in different formats while the music everyone was listening to is ignored, ridiculed and is left in storage while collectors reinvent history to the point where many people now believe that artists who sold a handful of recordings were household names in the 1920's and 1930's while those who sold thousands are never mentioned.

So enjoy what I managed to upload before I realized that no one really cares
Everyone is busy listening to Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Fats Waller and other people who, in my opinion, have zero talent when compared to great musicians like Nat Shilkret, Bob Haring, Leonard Joy, Louis Katzman, Jack Denny, Leo Reisman, etc. People who listen to this classy sophisticated music are just fruitcakes anyway, like me LOL

[Curt A]

I'll second the complaint about the "grimriper" "recordings" - they are absolutely worthless.

My friend Charlie Smith has made some great recordings of rare or unusual records, which I have posted on our website: www.carolinaphonosociety.com there are a number of recordings on the site, but you will have to explore.

If you want a direct shortcut to most of Charlie's recordings, use this link:
http://open1234.wix.com/camps-site/twil ... ie-smith-2