On: All the giant companies used ffmpeg (2020)

[dredmorbius]

There's at least a plausible interpretation of your earlier comment that the attempt was futile or without merits.

The OP makes clear that this was the only viable way of extracting information. 1 >>> 0.

Also, as a sufficiently early recording (anything before the mid-1940s), the medium would have been shellac or wax rather than vinyl. Shellac especially is immensely fragile and prone to shatter when handling.

[Kye → dredmorbius]

Your interpretation was incorrect.

[dredmorbius → Kye]

Your expression was unclear.

I'm not telling you what you meant.

I'm telling you what I heard, and, in reponse to your implied question, why I'd responded as I had.