The Gramophone Archive

I agree that this is a fantastic resource and have been using it regularly since day one to remind myself of all the views I've long forgotten since reading the original printed word.

One little niggle though that may be relatively easy to fix: throughout the text, wherever an apostrophe exists a string of gobbledeegook appears. This looks like "''". Obviously its some sort of apostrophe instruction associated with the optical scanning of the original text, but it appears several times in most paragraphs and makes reading a bit difficult.

I would have thought it fairly easy to do a global "replace" of the entire file to take out the '' and pop in a high comma.

Any chance?

I''d love it if you''d see what''s possible.

See what I mean?

Well, "every single page of every single issue" is a bit of a stretch, isn't it?  While I enjoy the Archive and visit it often, there are pages, even entire issues, that are unavailable.  Try finding an Awards issue sometime.

There was a specific reason the Awards issues were not up online, but we hope this can be resolved. Other than that, everything else should be there, apart from when a link is broken, in which case, by raising it, we can try to get it fixed. However, we had to remove the PDF download facility from the site (I realise there are still a few references to it on the site, for whih apologies). It had become necessary in order to protect the copyright of both the words and images used in Gramophone magazine (and therefore of the writers, photographers and image libraries we have worked with over the years to bring this content to you) which we'd discovered were being used in ways not in the spirit of the Archive.

Martin

well, i for one cannot fathom how your archive system works.

i try to select the august 2010 and get referred back to the start.

the september issue doesn't seem to exist.  and this is december.

i registered last week, posted two replies on the forums, and had to

register again today.  so, one last time.

what are the answers to the august september and october cd covermount quiz?

i put up with waiting months for the answers to appear in the magazines for prior month quizzes, now this.  gosh, is it too much to ask that if you are going to get rid of the cd, and the quiz, that you post the answers somewhere readily found, and not let me have to read thru all those postings

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about how many times a thread will be answered?

too difficult a problem?  then maybe i should drop this and buy from your competition from now on.

Hello,

The problem is that the Archive was never really designed to be a reviews database - at the time of launch Gramofile was online, so that was the obvious port of call for looking up reviews, and hopefully this year will see a reviews database of that nature return to this site. The Archive searches the full article text, not the disc metadata, so the bext way to make it more accurate is to use the advanced search, and enter a number of different, relevant, terms to try to narrow it down.

Best wishes,

Martin

Page numbering difficulties.

Issues on the archive are numbered beginning at Page 1 for that issue but in years gone by when the issues were numbered in annual volumes it is impossible to make a reconciliation. I have looked up a certain item, for example, which refers back to January 1968 Page 372 but can't find this page as it  does not correspond to the numbering on the archive for this issue. Had the Adobe reader not been removed I could have looked at the contents for that issue to find it but of course that's no longer possible.

Yes, Martin, that's a pity becomes the volumes used to have a very comprehensive index produced and I had wondered about getting them on the archive but without a cross page numbering reference it wouldn't be much use.