UPPM launches ground breaking production music hard drive solution for media pros – U-Drive
UPPM has announced the launch of a ground breaking production music hard drive solution for media professionals called U-Drive.
UPPM U-Drive is a custom made, searchable, production music hard drive solution powered by Soundminer.
Leading the way with on-line production music search & service, UPPM have found a technology partner to take their off-line client music offering to the next level. Using all the best features from Soundminer’s proven existing hard drive solution, integrating UPPM branding and terminology whilst making specific improvements to the user functionality UPPM believe they have produced the most robust and intuitive production music hard drive solution on the market today.
Says Vicki Garton, head of international digital services: “With over half a million audio files in UPPM’s library and many more being added each week, we wanted to make sure our new hard drive solution was best in class. In addition we wanted to make sure it was robust, intuitive and packed full of useful tech tools & short-cuts to help our clients find the music they need faster and easier than ever before. With the UPPM U-Drive our clients are telling us we’ve done just that.”
UPPM U-Drive is being rolled out in every major UPPM territory over the coming months and is available to all key account media professionals in need an off-line, searchable UPPM music library in their editing suites.
Says Gary Gross – president of UPPM Worldwide: “UPPM U-Drive really answers the technical needs for many of our clients and highlights our commitment to the media industry in this area. Research has told us that the technology we provide for our clients to search, audition, download and sync our music is fast becoming as important as the music itself. As such we are constantly striving to excel in both these areas and the new UPPM U-Drive is an excellent example of this.”
Says Craig Beck (left), UPPM general manager Australia and New Zealand: “UPPM are the world’s leading production music library with a diverse and comprehensive collection of over 150,000 original tracks, growing by roughly 500 each month. Working with hundreds of composers, labels and producers across the world UPPM strive to bring media professionals from a wide range of industries, the highest quality and breadth of production music on the market today.
“All tracks are licensed easily through AMCOS at very reasonable prices including a new rate for Branded/Sponsorship Content”
U-Drive features include:
– Intuitive projects feature for easy music organisation
– Large waveform audio player and a simple colour coded track marking system
– Powerful search technology:
– Quick search with Boolean technology ( + / – / and / not etc.)
– Advanced Search utilises UPPM’s vast & unique collection of search attributes
– Build-a-Search allows layered free text keyword searches in only the fields you want
– One click transfer of audio files straight to your chosen location
– On-board file conversion tool
– Smart Drag – Using the waveform clients can select an entire track or just a section to quickly
convert the file and Smart Drag to anywhere including straight into the editing suite