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BMS Music & Announcement Player

In Store Music and Announcement System

BMS is a software package that plays background music or announcements. Install BMS on a central computer connected to the PA system to create a powerful hard disk audio player that fully automates the scheduling and mixing of your music or announcements.

This software integrates the complete set of audio automation and signal processing features into one application and can drive up to 16 separate zones in the largest business centers. By using off-the-shelf computer technology, this professional background music and announcement solution is affordable for large and small businesses such as hotels, casinos, shopping malls, supermarkets and other retail environments where in-store music and advertising is needed.

BMS is designed specifically for business background music and announcements. Importantly BMS is easy to use. If you already have a Windows computer in your business, BMS can be installed and running within minutes offering your own 24/7 music and announcement service. BMS is free to download and trial and only takes a couple of minutes to download and install (click here).

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Typical Applications
  • Hotels and Casinos - where different areas (zones) require specific genres of music to be played.
  • Supermarkets and Convenience Stores - where the ability to page a employee or customer is required as well as background music and promotional messages.
  • Large Retail Stores - where zoning specific genres of music in combination with the ability page customers or employees and in-store announcements.
  • Shopping Malls - where scheduling closing time hours announcements anod other promotional messaging is required as well as background music.
Program Modes
  • Music and announcement player (announcements inserted in breaks).
  • Music only player (with automatic selection and mixing).
  • Automated announcement only player.
  • Automated announcements fading external music source.
  • Manual paging fading external music source.
Music and Announcement Scheduling
  • Automatic music selection and mixing according to set rotation rates and day-part scheduling.
  • Auto-playing optional recorded announcements at set times or at specified intervals in addition to manual user-play announcements.
  • All users on the computer network can play and even make announcements at their desks using IAPremote.
  • Date, time and week day music track and announcement validity checking.
  • Automatic day time volume changes (when, for example, your business might be noisier).
 
BMS Music System
Introduction
Features
System Requirements
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Languages
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Audio Output
  • Mixes music tracks seamlessly with automatic cue-in and cue-out time scanning.
  • Adjustable music / announcement volume balance (so announcements can be louder than music).
  • Optional microphone connection with automatic music fade when microphone page is activated.
  • Multiple-zone (up to 16) output option for large businesses with many speaker "zones" so selected announcements play only in specified areas and the music volume can be different in each zone.
  • Optional hardware connection to play announcements and microphone page including motion detector play modes.
  • Text-to-Speech Voice Synthesis of announcements if required.
  • Digital signal processor included within the software includes a dynamic range compressor and an active EQ for great sound quality. (These features alone can save you thousands of dollars in audio system equipment).
  • Flash Screen Images can be set to display at the same time as announcements. Alternatively BMS can also run plugins which can, for example, be used to play video commercials between music tracks.
Audio Sources
  • Automatically compress music to reduce hard drive requirements and to speed online updates.
  • Load prepacked BMS compilation CD-ROMs which can contain up to 100 music tracks each (or up to 400 tracks on a single DVD-ROM).
  • Supports online music subscriptions to automatically download new music every day.
  • Store up to 4000 music tracks (more than the average radio station).
  • Optional password protection when you need to restrict access to some functions.
  • Automatically load ("rip") tracks from CD.
  • Complete logs of all music tracks and all announcements played.
BMS System Requirements
  • Windows 95/98/NT4/2000/Me/XP/2003/Vista
  • Sound Card capable of 16 bit 44,100Hz Stereo playback
  • Pentium 233MHz or above
  • Hard Drive at least 500MB
  • CD-ROM Drive
  • Suitable connectors to connect to the PA Amplifier
  • [Optional] Additional Sound Card for audition play
  • [Optional] Internet Connection for online music subscriptions
  • [Optional] Connection to your office Local Area Network for IAPremote
  • [Optional] Microphone
BMS is fully multitasking and is therefore capable of running in the background on a computer running other applications at the same time. For example, if BMS is used to play only occasional announcements, it can run in the background on anyone's computer while they continue to use it for day to day tasks (eg. wordprocessing). However, for more critical professional 24/7 music, we recommend more care be taken with the computer choice and that all software that runs on the same computer with BMS be well tested stable 'server type' software which will not interfere with BMS (if in doubt simply test it).
Download BMS Business Music System
The software can be downloaded by clicking on one of the following links. Once downloading is complete, run the file bmssetup.exe which will automatically setup the software. Once you have run the setup file, select the Help Contents item from the Help menu for a complete guide to using BMS.

IAPremote
You can play announcements, and even make microphone announcements, using any computer running on the same network (LAN) as BMS. To do this you need to install the related client software application IAPremote on any other computer on the network.

Resellers and Distribution
NCH Swift Sound offers a retail scheme for professional studios and PA installation professionals. The reseller terms include wholesale pricing, customising and re-badging the BMS software, professional support for BMS and more. For more information please see: www.nch.com.au/reseller.

On-Hold Messages Player
BMS is designed to be used on the same computer as the IMS On-Hold Message Player as part of a complete business audio solution. If you need an on-hold message player please see: IMS On-Hold Message Player for free downloads which include professionally voiced generic on-hold messages and free music. You need to install 2 sound cards to run both BMS and IMS on the same computer.
I-Producer Professional Encoder
The I-Producer professional production software can be used to record, encode and produce for the BMS (and the IMS On Hold Player). It is intended to be used only by professional recording studios to produce messages for their clients. I-Producer can be downloaded at this page:
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