…but not too shabby.
This lot, containing about 45 hours of video, reduced to about 22GB of MP4s, or one Blu-ray data disc.
9,000g/20lb videotapes → 16g disc
Also: Auto-reverse? Well, la-de-da. A fancy one.
Not quite the steep incline of Moore’s law…
That’s a good looking collection! Good sounding, I mean.
I’ve been having great fun watching a lot of it again for the first time in years – in the vastly more convenient way of selecting from the DLNA server. All the music tapes took just two Blu-rays, with everything but the “Other” folder fitting on the first disc. I have an offsite backup of those two discs as well.
Videotapes from 1983-1993 on Blu-ray
Austin City Limits
0904 The Whites, New Grass Revival 1983.mp4
1009 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Steve Goodman 1983.mp4
1011 Nanci Griffith 1985.mp4
1108 Kate Wolf 1985.mp4
1208 Chet Atkins & Friends 1986.mp4
1301 The O’Kanes 1988.mp4
1308 Loudon Wainwright III 1988.mp4
1311 New Grass Revival 1988.mp4
1314 Leo Kottke 1988.mp4
1410 Robert Earl Keen, Jr. 1989.mp4
1607 Bluegrass Allstars 1991.mp4
1802 Leo Kottke 1993.mp4
1803 Riders in the Sky, Hot Rize 1993.mp4
Austin City Limits Episode Guide.txt
Central Sun Video
Dobro Summit Graves, Auldridge, Douglas Central Sun 1985.mp4
Hot Rize with Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers Central Sun 1986.mp4
Nashville Bluegrass Band Central Sun 1985.mp4
Norman & Nancy Blake Planet Riders – Central Sun 1987.mp4
Nanci Griffith
A Voice from the Heartland – VH1 1988.mp4
Austin City Limits 1011 Mar 1985.mp4
I Knew Love Music Video.mp4
It’s a Hard Life Wherever You Go Music Video.mp4
Lonesome Pine Specials 110 Nanci Griffith.mp4
Nashville Now – Apr 1986.mp4
Nashville Now – Dec 1989.mp4
Nashville Now – Feb 1988.mp4
New Country – Little Love Affairs (1988).mp4
New Country – Lone Star State of Mind (Feb 1987).mp4
New Country – Once in a Very Blue Moon (Jul 1985).mp4
New Country – The Last of the True Believers (Apr 1986).mp4
One Fair Summer Evening 1988.mp4
New Country
Bill Monroe Bluegrass ’87 1987.mp4
Blue Rose Blue Rose 1988.mp4
Country Gazette Bluegrass Tonight 1986.mp4
Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver I’ll Wander Back Someday 1988.mp4
Hot Rize Untold Stories 1988.mp4
Jerry Jeff Walker Gypsy Songman 1987.mp4
John Prine German Afternoons 1986.mp4
Mike Snider Live at the Station Inn 1986.mp4
Mike Snider Mike Snider & Friends 1986.mp4
Mike Snider with Barenberg Live on the Boat 1988.mp4
Nanci Griffith Little Love Affairs 1988.mp4
Nanci Griffith Lone Star State of Mind 1987.mp4
Nanci Griffith Once in a Very Blue Moon 1985.mp4
Nanci Griffith The Last of the True Believers 1986.mp4
Nashville Bluegrass Band Idle Time 1987.mp4
Nashville Bluegrass Band My Native Home 1987.mp4
New Grass Revival Hold to a Dream 1988.mp4
New Grass Revival New Grass Revival 1986.mp4
Norman & Nancy Blake Lighthouse on the Shore 1985.mp4
Norman Blake & Tony Rice Blake & Rice, Blind Dog, Native American 1988.mp4
Peter Rowan The First Whippoorwill 1985.mp4
Peter Rowan with NBB, Douglas New Moon Rising 1988.mp4
Ralph Stanley Lonesome and Blue 1987.mp4
Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers Shades of the Past 1988.mp4
Robert Earl Keen, Jr. No Kinda Dancer 1984.mp4
Robert Earl Keen, Jr. The Live Album 1988.mp4
The [MCA] Nashville Masters 1987.mp4
The Doug Dillard Band What’s That 1986.mp4
The O’Kanes The O’Kanes 1987.mp4
The O’Kanes Tired of the Runnin’ 1988.mp4
The Smith Sisters Bluebird 1984.mp4
The Lonesome Pine Specials
106 Maura O’Connell and Guests.mp4
110 Nanci Griffith.mp4
111 Hot Rize with Red Knuckles and the Trailblazers.mp4
113 New Grass Revival.mp4
116 The Nashville Allstars with Peter Rowan.mp4
118 The O’Kanes.mp4
122 Bela Fleck with the Blair String Quartet and The Flecktones.mp4
125 Moloney, O’Connell & Keane.mp4
201 Mando Magnificat.mp4
204 Christine Lavin and the Rounder Records Allstar Bluegrass Band.mp4
210 Strength in Numbers.mp4
The Lonesome Pine Specials Episode Guide.txt
Tony Trischka & Skyline Live in Japan
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Tony Trischka & Skyline Live in Japan 1983 Set list.jpg
Tony Trischka & Skyline Live in Japan 1983.mp4
Other Music 1983-1996
Chris Smither on Acoustic Cafe 1990.mp4
Chris Smither on Cable Coffeehouse 1990.mp4
Evening at Pops Nanci Griffith, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones 1996.mp4
Flecktones on Tonight Show 10-04-90.mp4
Frets Magazine 1985 Awards on Nashville Now 1986.mp4
George Throrogood & the Destroyers Live.mp4
IBMA winners on American Music Shop 1992.mp4
KFC Bluegrass Music Festival 1985.mp4
Linda Ronstadt with the Nelson Riddle Orchestra 1984.mp4
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Miscellaneous Music 1.mp4
Miscellaneous Music 2 Contents.jpg
Miscellaneous Music 2.mp4
Miscellaneous Music 3 Contents.jpg
Miscellaneous Music 3.mp4
New Grass Revival Can’t Stop Now music video.mp4
New Grass Revival on Peabody Alley Alive 1988.mp4
Richter the Enigma.mp4
The Misty Mountaineers on Exit 13 1985.mp4
Tim O’Brien on Nashville Now.mp4
Tony Trischka and Bela Fleck on CBS Sunday Morning 1995.mp4
Will Ackerman, Michael Hedges On Stage at Wolf Trap 1986.mp4
A Song from Ireland Andy Irvine, De Dadann 1986.mp4
Breakaway on Guest of the House 1986.mp4
Chieftains, Flaco Jiminez, and The O’Kanes The Session 1988.mp4
VERY nice.
It was fortunate that I was taping so much in that period because that was the peak of actually being able to see progressive bluegrass, Americana, and folkabilly (Nanci Griffith) on the tube. Even The Nashville Network had a fair amount of good stuff.
I had forgotten how much I wanted to leap into the TV and throttle Ralph Emery, host of “Nashville Now”, every time he interviewed someone I liked, squeezing just until he lapsed into unconsciousness – not a long distance – and the guest grinned. That man personified insipid.
“Are anklets a thing now?” indeed. Godfrey Daniels!