Technical Issues in Digitization of Large Online Collections of Phonograph Records

Author: Li Beinan   Lai Catherine   Fujinaga Ichiro  

Publisher: Society for Imaging Science and Technology

ISSN: 2161-8798

Source: Archiving Conference, Vol.2006, Iss.1, 2006-01, pp. : 151-155

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Abstract

This paper discusses the technical issues involved in digitization of large online collections of LPs and presents the techniques to perform automatic track separation of unsegmented audio streams, the approaches taken to automate metadata extraction from scanned record labels, and the tools used to automatically create derivatives of audio and image files in various optimized formats.