Hello,
Who is responsible for deleting these “so-called duplicates”?
Many tracks have been removed that aren’t actually duplicates. Could you please provide the original download with all the tracks, including the duplicates?
Thank you.
I’m sorry I don’t understand your request.
Has the rescue barge been updated?
I’ve noticed that some files are now missing. Back in 2021, there was an MP3 barge with duplicates—but these weren’t actual duplicates; they were simply named the same while being different songs. Since the removal of these so-called duplicates, a lot of material seems to be missing.
I don’t know anything about that you’d be best to contact The Internet Archive directly (info@archive.org) with your query, it could be a copyright issue and they’ve had to make some changes?
Let us know what they say.
Do you know who created the barge mentioned above? It included files labeled A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, and A10.
This is the original barge containing all the files.
most likely Jason Scott (http://www.textfiles.com/) using his pseudonym “Sketch the Cow” - you can try and reach out to him but don’t always expect a response.
Jason and I have previously communicated by email, and I will reach out to him again. I’ve just sent an email to the address you provided above.
There used to be over 300,000 tracks, but now there are fewer.?
Do you know where I can find the barge that resembles the one in the picture I sent, with files labeled A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, A10, A11, and A12?
Looks like they’ve been delisted (?) from the Internet Archive, even typing in the expeted URI returns a “Item cannot be found” error.
(e.g. https://archive.org/details/mp3-com-rescue-barge-A-1)
Really disappointing if that is the case as even I don’t have a current mirror anymore 
in the meantime, you could see if anyone else had managed to succesfully download any of these - try this board first:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/top/
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