Hanganyag

Hanganyag is a Hungarian term meaning audio material or sound recording. In Hungarian media and archiving contexts, it refers to recorded sound content used in broadcasting, film and video production, music, education, and cultural heritage preservation. A hanganyag can be an original program recording, a music track, a speech, an interview, a field recording, or a sound effect. It may exist in digital formats such as MP3, WAV, or FLAC, and, though less common today, in analog formats like tape or vinyl.

In practice, hanganyag is managed as a media resource with descriptive metadata, including title, creator, performer, date, duration, format, and rights status. Broadcasting organizations catalog hanganyag to support program production, rights clearance, and archiving. In libraries and archives, hanganyag is indexed for retrieval and preservation, with attention to both born-digital items and digitized materials.

Copyright and licensing are central considerations: using hanganyag typically requires permission from rights holders unless the material is in the public domain or licensed for reuse. Institutions implement access controls and licensing agreements to govern use in journalism, education, and public multimedia projects.

The term is deliberately broad, encompassing commercial music, news clips, drama, sound design, and field recordings. As a category, hanganyag functions as a general label for audible materials that can be stored, searched, licensed, and disseminated in multimedia contexts.