It started publishing a newsletter, AMC News, and managed the Australia Council / APRA parts-copying scheme.

The record label, Vox Australis, and a magazine, Sounds Australian, were established during this time, as were a series of annual music awards.

In 2007 the AMC's print journal, Sounds Australian, was superseded by the online magazine Resonate, and on 31 March 2009 a new website was launched.

[2] In 2000, the AMC moved to The Arts Exchange in The Rocks, Sydney, next door to its original location in George Street.

This included special programs for Indigenous Australian composers, later replaced by a new program, Ngarra-Burria: First Peoples Composers, in partnership with Moogahlin Performing Arts, ANU School of Music, Ensemble Offspring and the Royal Australian Navy Band, with funding support from APRA AMCOS, and in-kind support from EORA College of TAFE.

[2] AMC provides advocacy, representation, and publishing services as well as career support and professional development programmes.

[7] The Centre's collection includes a repository of Australian scores, recordings and teaching kits that numbered 13,000 items by 660 creators in 2017.

[4] In May 2021, he was succeeded by Catherine Haridy, who had worked in A&R for Mushroom Records and Warner Music Australia and founded her own artist management company in 2006.