Soundminer Programs, Overview

Contemporary media production demands efficient and intuitive workflows. Soundminer offers powerful programs that interface with archiving and production software. The Soundminer programs offer comprehensive tools and features for the administration of audio material (both music and sound files). Even large archives are easily and efficiently administered and browsed thanks to the unified metadata structure of many sound effects and music labels.

Modern workflows not only demand a dependable search engine for the archive, they also need the complete and guaranteed integration of Soundminer programs with industry-standard production systems. You can search for sound files with Soundminer and transfer them directly to your editing system. It's simple and uncomplicated.

The Soundminer versions offer a multitude of features to administrate sound and music archives. Thanks to the almost universally accepted Soundminer metadata standard, most current production-, mood music- and sound-archives can be ingested quickly and easily with Soundminer.

Optimized data fields for music and production music:

• Soundminer databases for music files contain special data fields, e.g. composer, mood, publishing year, publisher—as well as other music-related fields.

Data fields for sounds and sound effects:

• The Soundminer table template for sound databases contains only the relevant fields for sounds, e.g. category, main and sub-categories, recording location as well as other pre-existing fields.

Multi-language fields:

• For the administration of multi-language databases, Soundminer offers country-specific data fields in addition to the original language. The following fields are multi-language: description, category, sub-category.PRO

Soundminer is not only a tool to read and search metadata, it also contains comprehensive tools and features to change and administrate metadata. Soundminer comes with pre-designed metadata table-layouts optimized for music and sound files. Soundminer v4.5 now also offers new, country-specific metadata fields to help use the data in a multi-language environment, but without losing the original data fields.

Now you can ingest metadata via text import, write directly into the data fields, use the many options of the new multi-metatag editor and administrate keywords in individual categories with a click of the mouse. The Search and Find function also allows you to make corrections to selected data, or even throughout the entire archive. The powerful metadata admin tool allows you to optimize metadata, change it or routinely generate it.

Soundminer can be used in a network with a centralized server. Modern workflows can be easily streamlined like this, including the distribution of administrator rights. You decide who gets access to which archives. Soundminer Server administrates your clients on every level - from a small project-based studio to a gigantic media conglomerate with a plethora of users. Soundminer's server administration supports Apple systems (Soundminer V4Pro and HD Plus) as well as Windows (HD Plus) - all from the same databases.

For media producers with a high number of users, Soundminer offers a web-based solution with access to the archive. The MusicMiner webportal allows users to access the archive without having to purchase the set of tools offered by HD Plus or Soundminer V4 Pro. MusicMiner can be used for research purposes or to collect audio material for productions via its folders and playlists function. These lists can then be shared and exchanged with other members of the group. Audio material can be downloaded locally (depending on administration rights).