How do I archive media on archive.org?

Heya!

I've been archiving media on there for a quite a bit, and while some of this is outside my wheelhouse, I'll do what I can to help.

For me, a good rule of thumb is that the higher the quality you can manage, the better. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to work with what you have and something that's low to fair quality is better than nothing. This was the case for me with uploading scans of some hard to find thrash/black/death metal album art. If you're able to scan what you have into your computer and maybe polish them up in Photoshop or another program if necessary, that's great too. I think Archive is fairly generous when it comes to file types so I wouldn't worry too much about that, as there's playable DOS games on there that run clean. If you run into a problem with say, an image file, then converting it to another format should fix it. Size wise, I don't think you'll run into a problem either. I've uploaded full length movies and albums and I've yet to have any trouble there.

With videos from Youtube, Vimeo or another place, I highly recommend getting the program 4K Video Downloader. It's a godsend that works like a dream, and it's also free with no limits as to how much you can save (I think they cap you at 30 individual files a day, but that's it). You can also have the choice of saving it as a video or just the audio, which is great if you're looking to just back up the audio or music. I've been using it for years now and it's how I've managed to archive about 98% of the stuff on my page. It's a great way to work around OBS and preserve the original quality that can otherwaise be tarnished by a screen recorder. If the clip or media you're looking for is somewhere in the video itself, you can throw it into Audacity or whatever video editing program you have to extract it.

Good luck!