AES International Conference on Audio Archiving, Preservation & Restoration

Together with Universal Music Group, Iron Mountain Entertainment Services (IMES) will present a discussion on the inspiration for and benefits of the design, development and roll-out of IMES’s new Automated Media Image Capture System (AMICS), a state-of-the-art solution designed to improve the accessibility and usability of large-scale audio archives. The system was created to address the needs of Universal Music Group’s archive and is now successfully being rolled out to other clients. The streamlined AMICS workflow combines the use of a proprietary mobile 6-sided camera capture station with a customized cloud-based asset management user interface. The new solution enables the capture and processing of metadata for more than 2500 media assets in a single eight-hour shift, enabling IMES’s clients to perform inventory search, filtering, workflow assignments and more with unprecedented ease and speed, transforming and lowering the total cost of media inventory management. The panel will explain AMICS, showcase inventory examples, share both challenges and lessons learned, and discuss how this technology could be seamlessly analyzed and curated by an Ai/ML engine.