BAM Studio’s Brian Reed is a persistent cuss. It took him five years, never doubting, to achieve his goal of getting major music libraries to join in his quest for a better delivery service to audio houses like his.
The result is the BAM Dream Server, a revolutionary search engine for the Midwest’s largest music and effects library.
Twelve terabytes of content?500,000 music cuts and 200,000 sound effects?are contained on the Dream Server, in which media files, storage, database and efficient network have been fluidly integrated.
The Dream Server accepts audiofiles embedded with metadata, which allows the user to see and search more than 30 fields of embedded data, explained BAM sound designer Dave Leffel.
“All files are searchable complete with full descriptions, composer, publisher, category, length and other information attached,” he said.
Reed said it was always his dream to have every sound effect and music library file on a massive server accessible to any room at BAM, “and we found we had to do it ourselves to get what we wanted.”
He has been collecting library music and effects since he opened BAM in 1987 and delivery was on vinyl records.
