In the year 2525, will the only present day recordings to survive be on the discs that are aboard the Voyager spacecraft? The Smithsonian is busy retrieving and preserving records and tapes, and so is the British Library. But even if these recordings from over the past 100 years remain available 500 years into the future, will there be equipment to play them?
I’m a victim of fake news!
I’d never heard that there was a player. Just a description of how the audio is encoded, and “simple” visual instructions on how to decode the sound and pictures.
I have read both that there is some sort of a player on board the Voyagers, and that there isn’t.
I have the reproduction box set of the Golden Record from the recent kickstarter campaign. Still no turntable to play it on, but the story of that record, and the Voyager spacecraft in general, are some of my favorite of all time.
Those silly gray aliens communicate telepathically, so there’s no neef for a record player!