Catalog Preparation

Catalog preparation is the bulk processing of a large audio library, such as a label's back catalog or a dataset destined for AI training, to make it ready for a downstream use. It typically combines steps like source separation, cleanup, transcription, and metadata tagging, applied consistently across an entire collection. It is the at-scale version of the per-recording work elsewhere in this glossary, used to unlock catalogs for licensing, remastering, distribution, or model training.