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3. Quality assurance by data examination

5: Delivery to retailers, aggregators and other services

1. Submission of your media assets

You send us your audio-, video- and/or eBook assets on Audio-CD, BetaCam or as File/s via FTP. Upon receipt these are ingested into the Encoding Management Service right away, where they will be prepared for delivery to your contracting destinations - usually within one workday.

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Detailed guidelines for submitting content are laid down in our specifications (available here as .PDF download).

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2. Ripping and storage of your data

EMS stores your media data in its own dedicated data center, connected to the world via a 155MBit fibre optic line. Speedy ingestion, processing and delivery of your contents can thus be guaranteed.

Our Mediadata Management Program (MMP), your web-based logistics center, provides access to your product and insight into the current status of processing at all times.

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3. Quality assurance by data examination

We treat your data as scrupulously as if it were our own. From the first reconciliation of the supplied metadata against submitted audio-/video assets up to the final sound check and clearance by the Wavealyzer, our digital stethoscope. Without approval of that quality control no audio product can pass through to delivery.

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4. Encoding media formats

Our system produces the media format/s required for each of your contracting destinations in short order, storing the transcoded content in our data center for later iterations. Via the MMP you can have your digital goods delivered exactly to your deals' necessities. As new business relationships emerge, you can react flexibly. Your EMS is fit to adapt to any new challenge as it arises.

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5. Delivery to retailers, aggregators and other services

Worldwide, more than 100 destinations are connected to the EMS; setting up delivery to parties you have a deal with is feasible in short order. Getting new accounts up and running works as smoothly with EMS as living up to your deals' everyday requirements. Our 155Mbit fibre optic uplink helps ensure punctual deliveries virtually independent of volume to be transmitted. Should a scenario of 'too much at once' ever arise, we will coordinate transport on hard drive storage with you. Either way - your content will reach its destination; a statement for which we readily vouch. Review our complete list of connected shops and other destinations (PDF download).

Complete list of connected shops as PDF More on the Mediadata Management Program (MMP) Further information on our data center

Our service in 5 steps

The Encoding Management Service (EMS) enables simple, fast and safe processing of your media data, i.e. ripping, encoding and delivery of the content you specialize in, encompassing common audio and video formats, including bundles (also mixed media), longplay movies, eBooks and more. As a technology service provider we supply the framework conditions empowering you to offer your digital products in the best possible quality. Our exclusive, web-based logistics center called Mediadata Management Program (MMP) allows you to administrate your data autonomously and in real-time. You maintain control over your materials and have access to the individual stages of the processing chain at all times, up to ultimately triggering the actual delivery to destinations. You have the privity of contract with them; we provide the logistical infrastructure, technological expertise, and valubable relationships with more than a 100 online retailers, aggregators and other services worldwide.

We are not a distributor, nor are we a retailer; consequently, we don't take shares off your revenue. For our service, you pay only once per product. As solely a service provider, we're neither in competition with you, nor your customers.

We respect your autonomy.

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Meet us @ MIDEM
(Jan 27th - Feb 1st 2012)

Meet us @ MIDEM (Jan 27th - Feb 1st 2012)

We'll be attending MIDEM of course and look forward to meeting you in Cannes.

Stand R06.25 (VUT) / R05.33 (JWP)
Request an appointment dropping a mail to us.
You can contact us in Cannes via +49 (176) 47500846.

Bookwire first "Apple-approved aggregator" in Europe

Alex Maiwald (Head of Operations EMS) Irmin Wiechmann (Geschäftsführer EMS) Jens Klingelhöfer (Geschäftsführer Bookwire) Marc Radermacher (Geschäftsführer EMS) Miriam Hofheinz (Key Account & Content Manager Bookwire) John Ruhrmann (Business Development Bookwire)

In the picture, left to right:
Alex Maiwald (Head of Operations EMS)
Irmin Wiechmann (Technical Director EMS)
Jens Klingelhöfer (CEO Bookwire)
Marc Radermacher (Managing Director EMS)
Miriam Hofheinz (Key Account & Content Manager Bookwire)
John Ruhrmann (Business Development Bookwire)

Frankfurt am Main / Leverkusen, October 06, 2011 - As of today, e-book-specialized digital distribution house Bookwire is a certified supplier to Apple's iBookstore, which makes Bookwire the first service provider in Europe accepted into Apple's "approved aggregator program". Apple co-operates globally with a handful of carefully selected partners meeting supreme quality standards in order to support contracting publishers making their deliveries to the iBookstore excel while keeping the involved processes smooth and simple.

For Bookwire, the enhanced partnership with Apple is the next step towards offering a comprehensive digital distribution solution to European publishers. Moreover, with digital markets ever converging, Bookwire is poised to competently expand international business for their 140+ publishing partners based in German-spoken territories. For instance, when the iBookstore recently launched in 26 European countries, all of Bookwire's clients' releases were instantly available, across the map.

Jens Klingelhöfer, CEO of Bookwire:
"For Bookwire, reaching this new level in the partnership with Apple is an affirmation of our total commitment to quality and client focus, which we pursued tightly over the 2 years past and which will remain central to our advancement. I'd particularly like to express my gratitude to the entire staff at Bookwire as well as the team of our technology solution provider EMS with whom we've been working closely and successfully since day one. We're looking forward to acting as a premier digital distribution partner for publishers all over Europe, henceforth."

Marc Radermacher, Managing Director of EMS:
"As a matter of course, this accolade from market-leader Apple is a great delight for us as well, since it indicates once again that EMS is on the right track, and vanward, with the way we're shaping our infrastructural service offerings - also in this very young sphere of the advancing digital revolution, co-defining it as we move along. Accordingly motivated, we're looking ahead to the next exciting challenges to be tackled jointly with Bookwire and driving the innovative developments these are sure to engender."

!K7 banks on EMS

Berlin / Leverkusen, January 11, 2011 - !K7 and EMS are pleased to announce the official commencement of their cooperation today. Formally, the contractual relationship started on December 1st, 2010; final technical adjustments are being completed as this announcement is released to the public.

Berlin-based label group !K7 is one of the last remaining entirely independent music enterprises of size in Germany. Under the roof of their distribution branch 31 labels are gathered as of today, naturally including !K7 Records, the groups seminal own label, which enjoys a sterling reputation among connoisseurs of electronic music worldwide. This credit grounds on the success of internationally acclaimed acts such as Kruder & Dorfmeister, Herbert, Ursula Rucker, Carl Craig, Hot Chip, Stateless, A Guy Called Gerald – to name but a few – as well as well-crafted product ranges like e.g. the ''DJ-Kicks''-series. The groups portfolio of own brands is topped off with stylistically diversified sub-labels Rapster, Strut und Gold Dust Media.

To ensure optimal technical conditions for processing and delivering these attractive contents, !K7 has now chosen EMS as service provider for their digital distribution requirements. Says Tom Nieuweboer, Head Of Digital with !K7 label group: "We're looking forward to working with EMS and are already impressed with the high speed of encoding and delivery we're getting. Using their MMP [Musicdata Management Program] is very intuitive and empowers us to effectively administrate our product."

To EMS, tying bonds with !K7 states a significant signal, as Marc Radermacher (Co-Owner and Managing Director) sees it: "We're happy to have won such a highly esteemed supplier of finest electronic music in !K7 and are as confident as we are determined to give them the same level of lasting satisfaction our content clients customarily enjoy. The good news for us is, that word of the quality of our services seems to be spreading on its own accord – since to date we're doing quasi zero advertizing. This makes connecting with !K7 even more gratifying."

EMS as a standalone company was established in early 2010; prior to this, the Encoding Management Service conglomerate, which came to be known under that abbreviation, has for many years been an integral part of the well-reputed software house de_zwei_drei seated in Leverkusen, Germany. EMS' clients include leading digital distribution companies and aggregators such as Zebralution, GoodToGo (Groove Attack / Rough Trade), Intergroove et.al.; talks with several other interested parties are underway.

Appearing together in their presentation of the entire EMS portfolio are Managing Directors Marc Radermacher and Irmin Wiechmann together with Alex Maiwald, Head of Operations. At the Midem 2011 they will be found at the VUT stand R32.25.

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Irmin Wiechmann lectures at the PopAcademy

7th December 2010 | On December 6 the subject of 'Digital Applications' was on the agenda at the PopAcademy, the University of Popular Music and the Music Business, in the town of Mannheim. The unit entitled 'Technologies for the digital music industry' was, once again, mentored by Irmin Wiechmann. As managing director at EMS GmbH and technical director for the creative technology agency de_zwei_drei GmbH he is one of the prime drivers behind digital developments in the entertainment market.

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