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The article shares insight on the cost of Bibliothèque nationale's digitization of all 1962 commercial records of repertoire and their sale as BnF Collection downloads. It mentions the production of music downloads by British distributor Believe Digital for retailers and the transfer of classical recordings for digitization by Memnon. The author wonders about the quality of music transfers and suggests private finance initiatives (PFI) to fund the digitization of historic recordings.