Hi - I don't have answers but the question raises more questions. Are we talking about all classical LPs issued from the lp's inception until its mass production demise, a period of roughly forty years? If so, just think of all the recordings of Beethoven's 5th symphony, just to give one example. If this is the scope then I would think the percentage of CD issuance would be quite low. If on the other hand the question refers to any recording of a given composition, then that's a very different thing. Thanks. Gene On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Richardson, Jonathan Carrithers < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Asking for a friend. Hoping someone can help settle an argument. > > Maybe this has been discussed in the past on the ARSC list, but does > anyone know what percentage of classical music recordings on LP made it to > CD or at least into the digital realm? Someone told me once that less than > 20% of commercially available classical music on LP crossed over to CD. I > don’t believe it. To me that sounds like an awful lot of music that will > soon be lost even though I don’t think LPs are going away anytime soon. > > Of course this is probably a tough question to know the exact answer to > but I thought maybe someone here might know a ballpark figure. > > thanks > > Jonathan Richardson > Audio Visual Specialist > Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative > Indiana University > 812-320-8485 > [log in to unmask] > https://mdpi.iu.edu/ > https://mdpi.iu.edu/MDPI blog<blogs.iu.edu/mdpi/> > > >