| Summary: | Long-term access to digitized audio may be heavily dependent on the quality of technical metadata captured during digitization. The AES57-2011 standard offers a standardized method of documenting fairly comprehensive technical information, but its complexity may be confusing. In an effort to lower the barrier to use, we have developed software that generates valid AES57 files for digitized audio, using output from FITS (File Information Tool Set) and a few fields of information from a tab-delimited spreadsheet. This article will describe the logic used, the fields required, the basic process, applications, and options for further development.
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