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- Ignores incoming digital music completely
- Almost never uses computers
Music Director J. Judy (World):
Highlights: Receives new music, but has never logged received CDs. May play or burn digital media rarely, but usually deletes. Submits to CMJ semi-regularly.
- Incoming digital music currently needs to Because digital music needs to currently first be burned to CDs before it can be being added to the playback library and played, it is more a hassle than physical copies and therefore digital music is not as attractive an option
- The World Music director receives a large number of emails containing music in digital format (~10 a month)
- They get a lot of free music and promos because of the CMJ (college media journal) reporting that they do, is done rarely. Because of the College Media Journal (CMJ) reporting that she does, which is a national reporting system on music which reports the top albums being played, the record labels like; will often send free music. CMJ reporting involves going through the physical CDs and looking at seeing how many marks have been made on the labels to see how many count the plays each CD has, and filling out a table, with some subjective opinion of the music director as well
- Currently, due to time constraints, she will either delete them, or forward the emails to volunteers of the station, who also find the digital formats frustrating to deal with
of each album.
Judy either deletes e-mailed music, or forwards them to station volunteers (elves), but everybody finds this time-consuming and frustrating. She receives music - The World Music director receives songs from an eclectic range of record labels, and many of often times the smaller , independent ones cannot afford to send her physical CDs
- Labels show on which date the CD was played, which specific track and which DJ, lots of plays = lots of labels
- For Julia it’s often a “hurricane in the studio”, can't afford the costs of sending physical albums. The labels on each album show dates the album was played on, as well as the specific track and DJ that played it. Judy feels it's often a "hurricane" in the studio, and there is very little physical space for her to work with, so she wants something easy and simpleneeds ease and simplicity.
Sometimes music she wants she has to purchase it herself. She - Sometimes music they want they have to go out and get on their own, for example by buying it, she wonders if the free MP3s that Amazon sometimes offers can could be useful- Julia is . Judy feels a little discouraged that this is a “oneone-shot deal” deal project for us, but an inevitable artifact of this being a the class project and not a real-world project
- lazy, no time to download (so much of it, within the last 6 months or 1 year the number of digital media multipled)
- concerned with the tracklist and manually find album art
- essential things are the record label and the year the track was made
- send in the CMJ report of the most played tracks (supposed to be weekly but no time)
- could use another person (assistant), wish music that gets sent to WMBR-loud will not get directly sent to her
- all the digital media go in somewhere, unsorted and into a different email address
- too many emails, tedious process
- how will the general WMBR public know the new music coming in
Other notes (not taken from any particular person):
- Some physical form of the music must exist if it's received as a CD, if sent digitally a physical form may not have to exist
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. Judy is concerned that with a system in place she'll still have to manually find the album art and track list, which is time consuming. She feels she could use an assistant to help her with the e-mails she gets to deal with the tedium. One of her concerns is letting the listeners know which new music is coming in.
Lessons Learned:
- CMJ reporting involves looking at each physical album and counting the plays on the label
- Doesn't use incoming digital music because of time constraints
- Finding album art and inputting track list is a concern
- Wants to make sure people are aware of which tracks are new and hot
Jocelyn (Loud Rock):
Jocelyn is loud rock music director at WMBR. She plays anything from punk rock to metal to garage rock. When she receives music in her e-mail, she'll only download it if she knows it will be something she likes. She's quite lazy in this respect, and often deletes the e-mails with music. She receives about 5-20 CDs per week, and wonders if we transition to digital, where all the fun information (like cover art and backstory) will go. Jocelyn thinks the essentials are album label, year, track list, artist. One of her duties is to perform the CMJ reporting for which albums were played most (bi-weekly).
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