The Vinyl Flac Project (VFP) is inspired by the Avant Garde Project (AGP) but wi

th the idea of being open to everybody. Everybody is encouraged to create VFP t

orrents and start sharing rare vinyl records.
The twentieth century saw a vast body of music released on vinyl, which was neve
r re-released in a digital format, especially works within the art music genres
(classical, avant-garde, experimental, electronic, contemporary, jazz, blues, fo
lk, world, ethnic, marginal progressive rock, early recordings, 78s, wax cylinde
rs and other rarities.) These records are in danger of being extinct, along wit
h their historical and educational values.
The amount of work required to digitize all music is enormous and only an intern
etwide collaborative effort can save these rarities from extinction. So start c
ontributing today. Digitize your rare records before they go bad.
The guidelines for VFP are pretty simple:
1. Each torrent should include a full record (or several), dont make compilations
.
2. Include a scan of the record cover (front and back) and preferably an OCR sca
n of the sleeve notes (jpg, txt, pdf, or any other standard format)
3. Save the files in flac (free lossless audio codec)
4. files should be tagged
5. Track name format: track artist title.flac
6. Include this text file
7. In order to maintain a unique designation for each album, assign each VFP rel
ease a number in the following manner: YYMMDDHH (Year, Month, Day, Hour with two
digits for each, use the 24 hour clock for the hour), for example VFP-07012205
would be the nnumber for a release that was uploaded on 22 Jan 2007 between 5am
and 6am (don't worry aobut time zones)
8. Include the words Vinyl Flac Project" and the release number (VFP 07012205) in
the torrent comments to make searches easy. Also include some information about
the album - the more the better (track list, performers, and this text)
Thanks for saving the music