Case Study: Boston Symphony Orchestra achieves streamlined audio archive management and instant sharing with NetX

How the Boston Symphony Orchestra Brings Audio to Life with its digital asset management system

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, with a century-plus archive of recordings, struggled to manage and share its growing collection: staff and external requesters relied on a hodgepodge of email links, cloud folders, and mailed CDs, making searching, access, and version control slow and error-prone. Different departments needed reliable, searchable access to specific movements, clips, and master files without burdening the archives team.

BSO implemented NetX’s digital asset management system, using its broad format support, Data Source Sync import, Asset Request forms, and Autolink features to centralize assets, enable streaming and metadata-driven search, and allow secure one-click sharing and uploads from external partners. The result: streamlined workflows, fewer duplicate downloads, quick self-service clipping for marketing and press, faster responses to external requests, and a more efficient, searchable archive.

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Sarah Funke Donovan

Associate Archivist for Digital Assets