Press Release: Vantage Digital Music Manager Offers Live Streaming, 500GB Storage

OREM, Utah — Vantage announced today the release of its newest innovation, the Digital Music Manager. Easily the most powerful and robust music solution on the market, the Digital Music Manager is the prime choice for the discriminating homeowner.

Equipped with the ability to automatically seek out all of the digital music sources in a home’s network, the Digital Music Manager can stream live from a laptop, USB/MP3 players, Internet Radio, or any shared music files; in addition to playing any of the CDs ripped and stored on the Digital Music Manager itself. No longer does the homeowner need to worry about different music sources or formats — the Digital Music Manager aggregates all audio sources, formats and remotes into one easily operated solution.

Furthermore, the Digital Music Manager boasts support for four independent audio streams; meaning that a homeowner can enjoy their favorite Internet radio station in the kitchen, while their son streams live from his laptop upstairs, their spouse enjoys ‘80s music in the exercise room and a house guest listens to their iPod in the living room. What’s more, the guest’s iPod metadata will populate to the Digital Music Manager when plugged in, and stream live music from the iPod. When the iPod is removed, so too is the metadata content, restoring the system to its original state.

“The Digital Music Manager is the product of two years of research, collaboration, and attention to even the smallest detail,” said Andrew Wale, VP of marketing for Vantage. “The result is the most powerful system on the market, dedicated to the highest quality entertainment and listening experience.”

Unique to the Digital Music Manager is the CD ripping functionality; CDs are copied at seven times sampling to obtain the purest quality audio. A dealer can actually put a CD that is scratched beyond use into the Digital Music Manager, and when ripped it sounds brand new.

The Digital Music Manager comes equipped with the following:

• 500 Gigabytes of storage (approximately 800-1000 CDs) with an option to upgrade to a Terabyte
• Free Internet Radio (V Tuner)
• USB/MP3 support
• Network Attached Storage Device (NAS) with ripping capability and back-up drive
• High Quality Ripping & Sampling

The Digital Music Manager seamlessly integrates with Vantage’s InFusion Media Platform, Axium multi-room amplifier and touch screen interfaces. In fact, the intelligent interface is another key feature of the Digital Music Manager. The user-friendly interface displays album cover art, allows the homeowner to search by artist, album or genre, and creates and stores playlists.

One of the key components of the Digital Music Manager is the power that drives the music platform. Partnering with only the best, Vantage chose London-based Digital Fidelity’s DigiFiTM platform. The DigiFi platform offered the flexibility and functionality that Vantage needed to create a solution powerful enough to drive the robust Digital Music Manager.

Vantage also partnered with renowned content-provider and loading company Terra-SAN, so that the Digital Music Manager can be pre-loaded for the homeowner with hundreds of songs from any musical genre they prefer. Terra-SAN will either pre-load content directly to the Digital Music Manager, or ship dealers a customized, pre-loaded hard drive to upload to the Digital Music Manager. Terra-SAN is acclaimed for its ability to groom, restore, hand-edit and load audio for sound quality that exceeds that of the original.

Finally, dealers wishing to load content to the Digital Music Manager in-house can go through Vantage’s third partner, MF Digital. MF Digital offers solutions based on its celebrated Ripstation software and industry-leading robotics. MF Digital’s Ripstation range has been optimized for the Digital Music Manager to load quality audio and metadata directly to the server. In addition to offering new dealers a variety of off-the-shelf solutions, MF Digital also offers upgrade options for dealers who already have Ripstation software and hardware.

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