TASCAM recovery part 2

TL;DR Yes, user forums and the Internet Archive are extremely important for digital preservation work. LLMs also seem quite good for synthesizing information that is found in them, connecting the dots between aspects of the problem you are facing, and connecting you to other people engaged in similar work. Back in June I wrote about how my brother John had died, and how among the things he left behind were over 100 CD backups of music he had created in the early 2000s. Each CD was clearly labeled with a song title, and contained a multi-track backup of a single song, which (I was to learn) was made with a TASCAM 788. He had told me he had these backups years ago, but I’d never seen them until we were emptying out some of the storage space in his apartment building. John preformed live in different small venues in Pittsburgh in the 1990s, and then in the Doylestown, PA area in the early 2000s. He left behind several guitars, and other musical equipment. But despite my encouragement on…