RaveScanner Vinyl Scan App/scanner
About us

We preserve electronic music culture.

RaveScanner is the scanning app behind the R.A.V.E. archive: a non-profit Swiss association that digitizes one of Europe's largest techno vinyl collections and makes it accessible to the public.

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Over 20,000 techno vinyls sorted in colorful transport bags
Over 20,000 techno vinyls from the years 1995–2005.
20'000+
Vinyls in the archive
1995–2005
Golden Techno Era
Non-Profit
Swiss Association
Made in CH
Own AI Tech
Our Story

From a physical archive to an app for everyone

Three chapters, one goal: to preserve electronic music culture — and make it accessible.

Who we are
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An association for electronic music history

R.A.V.E. (Research, Archiving & Mediation of Electronic Music) is a non-profit Swiss association dedicated to preserving electronic music culture.

The project originated from the idea of preserving one of Switzerland's largest techno vinyl collections, with over 20,000 records from 1995–2005, not by selling or splitting it, but by preserving it as a cultural archive for the public.

Today, R.A.V.E. is working to make electronic music history accessible — a place where DJs, collectors, music lovers, and future generations can experience this culture.

PP protective sleeves with numbered vinyls
PP protective sleeves with numbered vinyls — ready for archiving.
What we do
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Archiving, digitizing, documenting

We archive, digitize, and document records from the electronic music scene — from Techno and Trance to Progressive and Acid.

To do this, we develop our own technologies and processes to efficiently capture and secure large vinyl collections for the long term.

Our goal is not just a physical archive with listening stations, workshops, and community offerings, but also a digital system that sustainably preserves electronic music history.

Shelves with vinyls sorted by style families
Shelves with records grouped by style families — Trance, Techno, Progressive, Acid.
Why we built this app
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Born from the archive — built for all collectors

While working on the archive, it quickly became clear how time-consuming digitizing thousands of records is. That's why we developed an AI-based scanner app that recognizes vinyls by photo, automatically matches them with Discogs, and integrates them into our own archive system.

The technology was originally developed for our internal archive — today, we are also making it available to the public.

The profit from app revenue flows directly back into the R.A.V.E. project and supports the development of the public vinyl archive and the long-term preservation of electronic music culture.
RaveScanner app in use scanning a vinyl collection
The team scanning and cataloging the collection with the RaveScanner app.
Label boxes with vinyls sorted by record label
Label boxes — sorted by record label and sub-genre.
Style family shelves with Trance, Progressive, and other subgenres
Style family shelves — from Trance to Hard Techno.

R.A.V.E. × RaveScanner

Preserve your collection — and a piece of music history.

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More about the association on swissrave.com