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On 19/11/2011 09:10, David Looser wrote:
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Brian wrote:
A friend of mine has a cd promoting the play vinyl with a laser
turntable thing, Hugely expnsive device but apparently able to be
adjusted to play the non worn bit of a groove.

I've not played with one, but heard they tend to play things like dust
that a stylus would just push out of the way.


It's the sort of thing that might have a use in a sound archive for the
transcription of extremely rare and delicate recordings. Other than that
it's just a high-tech gimmick (IMHO of course).


In your humble *preference*, think you mean :-)

No, that's an opinion, not a preference (but note that I didn't say that
anything was "better" than anything else :-)

David.

There were some specific examples of products and implementation in
archive institutes in the links.

I am not so hopeful about the particular point of using AI to tell
dust from groove. IME using AI to mimic human capabilities is often
deeply flawed - to understand why, you only have to look back at OCR
(which can work quite well with printed material but is usually
hopeless at handwriting) automatic speech recognition (some users can
make it work, a great many can't), and automatic language translation
(hydraulic ram = water sheep), and other similar systems, not
forgetting the financial software that helped to cause the last great
crash.

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:41:36 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

I
imagine it is only a matter of time before someone does this in a way that
lets the scan tell dust from vinyl - e.g. by using colour.
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In article , Java Jive
wrote:
There were some specific examples of products and implementation in
archive institutes in the links.

I am not so hopeful about the particular point of using AI to tell dust
from groove. IME using AI to mimic human capabilities is often deeply
flawed

I am inclined to agree. But it wasn't really what I was talking about in
what you quoted below.

On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 08:41:36 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:

I imagine it is only a matter of time before someone does this in a
way that lets the scan tell dust from vinyl - e.g. by using colour.

Slainte,

Jim

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