As an interim preservation step over a 10-year period, the West German public service broadcaster WDR transferred its entire analog sound collection to CD. This collection, which contains approximately 270,000 CDs, will now become the core component of the WDR digital audio archive for long-term preservation.

The fact that the initial transfer from analog to CD had already been done, made it possible for us to take advantage of the latest technology – namely CD-Inspector from Cube-Tec – to accelerate the transfer process. Splitting the project into two steps and starting early with the labour intensive, manual portion enabled the utilization of the automated, quality controlled system from Cube-Tec to fill up the new mass-storage in high speed. The CD-Inspector system has proven to be both reliable and efficient.
- Volker Herde, System Service Radio