Comment Comment by fl7305 > It’s much easier to tell the people with old cassette tapes to rip themI assume you mean "rip them", as in transcode to a different format?In that case, you need a tool that takes the old input format(s) and convert them to the new format.For text files, you'd need a tool that takes the old text files with various encodings and converts them to UTF-8.Isn't the point of the article to describe how an engineer would create such a tool? parent fl7305 2 years ago
I assume you mean "rip them", as in transcode to a different format?
In that case, you need a tool that takes the old input format(s) and convert them to the new format.
For text files, you'd need a tool that takes the old text files with various encodings and converts them to UTF-8.
Isn't the point of the article to describe how an engineer would create such a tool?