Quadriga audio archive solution
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The Quadriga audio archive solution is software for digitizing analog audio archives .
history
The use of conventional radio sound archives on the basis of individual sound carriers is labor-intensive and continuous quality control, which is indispensable for stock-keeping, is cost-intensive. The advancing digitization of radio technology in the 90s forced the sound archives to digitize their large sound carrier collections.
The “final break with the past”, ie the transition from the individual sound carrier to the data record, the sound file, provided a remedy. The sound files are stored on mass storage media (mainly tape cassettes) in robot archives, which enables both an automatic inventory and more intensive use of the sound archive by integrating it into the digitally networked broadcasting house. In order to achieve high import efficiency with improved quality assurance, a new product category had to be developed, the "quality-monitored audio archive import station" Quadriga.
Quadriga was developed in 1998 in close cooperation with the Institute for Broadcasting Technology (IRT) and the German public broadcasters . Quadriga is a registered trademark of the IRT and is marketed exclusively by the Bremen company Cube-Tec International GmbH . The acronym, derived from “ QU ality from A nalogue to D igital RIG orously A nalysed”, indicates the quality control practiced during the digitization process.
Quadriga has been used by broadcasters, state archives and music companies around the world since 1998.
Working method
When transferring the sound carrier, Quadriga automatically detects irregularities and automatically records them in a quality report. Irregularities can be cracks or short audio dropouts, for example. The Quadriga operator can check these events acoustically and visually even during the transfer.
Parallel to the recorded audio material, Quadriga provides detailed additional information ( metadata ) about the original sound carrier, the recording signal chain and the overall technical quality of the recording.
Quadriga can be connected to any existing media asset management system and easily adapts to the existing network and database infrastructure.
Together with the Dobbin and Cube-Workflow products , Quadriga forms a fully integrated solution for the transfer (migration) of classic, sound carrier-based sound archives into file-based media archives. They can make the audio and accompanying materials imported with Quadriga available to their users online or via network.
Quadriga device support
- Tape machines
- Record player
- Compact cassettes
- Digital Audio Tape (R-DAT)
- MiniDisc
- 9-pin controllable player