In 2006, The Korean Broadcasting System, South Korea's premier public broadcaster, was facing the monumental task of transferring an archive of over 300,000 CD's to their centralized storage system. Because the transferred Wave files would be used in broadcast applications, quality control and metadata management were critical requirements.

KBS chose Cube-Tec International to provide a solution, and quickly completed phase one of the project with the transfer of the first 50,000 CD's using Cube-Tec's QUADRIGA solution, with CD-Inspector providing analytical quality reports and metadata management. In the second phase of the project, which is now in progress, the remaining 250,000 CD's are being transferred with comprehensive quality control via QUADRIGA.

In a parallel process, KBS is utilizing additional Cube-Tec technology to overcome another technical obstacle: The 300,000 CD's were collected over many years from numerous sources, so loudness and perceived loudness levels vary dramatically. To solve this problem KBS installed a new Cube-Tec DOBBIN system which will first analyze all files, then utilize the 'Loudness Assimilator' module to automatically adjust the files to perfectly balanced loudness levels. This fully automated "batch process" approach eliminates human error and delivers broadcast ready Wave files quickly and cost effectively.