Subj : Re: Floppy LPs
To   : boraxman
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue May 13 2025 17:24:16

  Re: Re: Floppy LPs
  By: boraxman to Alonzo on Wed May 14 2025 10:19 am

 bo> One thing I never experienced, but always wanted to try, was loading
 bo> computer data from vinyl.  It should theoretically be possible to encode
 bo> digital data somehow, and have a turntable read it.  Either the computer
 bo> records the analog signal and converts, or the turntable has a DAC built
 bo> in.

 bo> I suspect someone did do this.

Years ago I wondered if that could be a thing, and it could probably be called "vinyl-ROM".  Older computers used to store data on analog cassette tapes, so I imagine it would be possible to store data on vinyl.

As an aside, I've heard it's possible to take a high-resolution photo of a vinyl record, analyze the grooves in software, and directly convert the groove data to an audio file.  I seem to recall reading somewhere that someone had created software to do that..  Theoretically, the same could probably be done with file data stored on vinyl.  I'm not sure why you'd want to do that, but it seems it could be possible.

Nightfox
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