Audio

Content definition: Tools that support the preservation of digital audio data.

Tools for this content type

		Access, Use and Reuse	Create or Receive (Acquire)	Cross-Lifecycle Functions	Dispose	Ingest	Preservation Action	Preservation Planning	Store
ADC Test	Tests and reports on audio analog-to-digital converters					X
Audacity	The open source audio editor	X		X	X		X		X
AudiAnnotate	To make audio and its interpretations more discoverable and usable by extending the use of the newest IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) standard for audio with the development of the AudiAnnotate web application, documented workflows and workshops that will facilitate the use of existing best-of-breed, open source tools for audio annotation (Sonic Visualiser), for public code and document repositories (GitHub), and audio presentation (Universal Viewer) to produce, publish, and sustain shareable W3C Web Annotations for individual and collaborative audio projects.	X		X		X	X		X
Audio/Video to WAV Converter	This tool converts audio and video files to WAV format.						X
Avcc	AVCC is an open source application that enables collaborative, efficient item-level cataloging of audiovisual collections.						X		X
BWF MetaEdit	BWF MetaEdit permits embedding, validating, and exporting of metadata in Broadcast WAVE Format (BWF) files.			X		X
CDRDAO (CDR Disk At Once)	Cdrdao records audio or data CD-Rs in disk-at-once (DAO) mode based on a textual description of the CD contents.		X
Catalyst	Catalyst is a solution for the creation of better inventories and the management of digitization workflows.
Clipper	Clipper is a free open-source web application enabling researchers to create and share virtual-clips without altering the original media files	X
Cost of Inaction Calculator	A calculator to analyze the Cost of Inaction of not digitizing/preserving audiovisual assets							X
DMC (DBpoweramp Music Converter)	dBpoweramp Music Converter (dMC) is an audio conversion tool.						X
DNS	DNS - DA NRW Software Suite			X		X	X
DiPS (Digital Preservation Solution)	DiPS (OAIS compliant Digital Preservation Solution)	X	X	X	X	X	X		X
DiscMaster	Website to browse and search vintage computer files from archive.org			X
Easy CD-DA Extractor	Easy CD-DA Extractor is CD Ripper, Music Converter, Audio Converter, Metadata Editor, and CD/DVD burning software.		X	X		X	X
Exact Audio Copy	Exact Audio Copy is an audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives on Windows only.		X	X		X	X
ExifTool	Properties extraction, identification, metadata editing			X		X	X
FFAStrans	Task automation engine, mostly used in audio and video visual content management.			X		X	X	X
FFmpeg	FFmpeg is a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.						X
Filestar	Universal file converter for 900+ file types.			X		X	X
GetID3()	Extracts technical and embedded descriptive metadata from common multimedia file formats.			X		X
IsoBuster	Recover data from CD, DVD, BD, HDD, Flash drive, USB stick, media card, SD and SSD.		X
Libsafe	libsafe allows the organizations to create a full OAIS compliant Archive, including active and passive digital preservation workflows and is particularly suited for master image files of digitizing processes.			X
MP3val	MP3val is a small, high-speed, free software tool for checking MPEG audio files' integrity.					X	X
MPG321	mpg321 is a command-line mp3 player. mpg321 is used for frontends, as an mp3 player and as an mp3 to wave file decoder.						X
Mdqc	Tool for managing and comparing digital asset metadata			X		X	X
MediaConch	MediaConch is a file validation software.					X		X
MediaInfo	Supplies technical and tag information about a video or audio file.			X		X
Metadata Interrogator	The Metadata Interrogator is a standalone, offline GUI tool for extracting and analysing metadata from a wide variety of file formats.			X		X
Metadata++	Freeware tool to view, edit, modify, extract, copy metadata of various formats.			X		X
Metadata2Go	Web-based EXIF data viewer			X		X
Paranoia	"Use your CDROM drive to read audio tracks.... and have it actually work right!"		X
Rescarta	The ResCarta Tools software empowers users to create non-proprietary digital objects with LOC standard METS, MODS, MIX and AudioMD metadata from existing TIFF, JPEG, PDF and WAV data through user-friendly interfaces.	X		X
Switch Audio File Converter	Switch is a universal audio converter that supports a wide range of formats.						X
Unstoppable Copier	Attempts to recover every readable piece of a file and puts the pieces together.						X
VLC Media Player	Cross platform audio and video player based primarily on the libavcodec.						X
XcorrSound	The xcorrSound package compares sound waves using cross correlation.					X	X