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Summary of Sketch 1:
| an allows asynchronous importing of multiple albums. Users - features easy drag and drop of music files onto the interface or direct link input to album
- Asynchronous importing means that users can input album and song details while
uploading music, filling in details for an album (the zip file) fills in the details for the songs automatically. Uploads can always be previewed before being added to the library, or cancelled entirely. This design focuses on a clean and efficient interface for importing music only, as such CMJ reporting and flushing is not included.
- music is uploading to the system
- Efficiency features like album-level information automatically propagating to tracks speeds up the input process
- Uploads can be previewed by music directors before being added to the playback library
- This design focuses on the critical aspect of uploading music, CMJ reporting and playback library flushing is not included
- This design was the stretch for ultra-efficiency
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| Summary of Sketch 2:
| - This design aims to circumvent
receiving mails from record labels and artists entirely. - mail correspondence entirely by providing a separate interface for record labels
- Record labels and artists
are given their own interface through which they can submit their album. In the music director interface, there is an unfiled section with recently submitted albums awaiting approval. There is a checkbox genre filtering mechanism for music directors to see only the genres of music they care about. The library interface (similar to Sketch 3) would show - submit and fill in music details on their own, and albums are automatically uploaded to the system
- The music directors can preview albums awaiting approval, and choose to approve albums to the playback library or reject them
- Checkbox genre filtering allows music directors to only see albums for the genres that they care about
- Similar to Sketch 3, the library interface would show the number of air plays and allow a flush flag to be turned on
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Sketch 3 |
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Summary of Sketch 3:
An iTunes clone
| - This interface mimics iTunes for external consistency and therefore (supposedly)
easy learnability. This design also features asynchronous importing. Once importing is complete, a dialog box - easier learnability
- Importing is done through a separate dialog, once the import has begun the user can go back to using the interface
- Once an import has been completed, a dialog gives the user the option of previewing and accepting music into the library
. The library shows the - The import completion dialog also shows tracks that failed to import and has text boxes for filling out track information
- The user can always exit out of the import completion dialog and the tracks with missing information will go to an unfiled section
- The library incorporates all functionality including number of air plays
and also has flush flag, facilitating CMJ reporting and flushing. - (to facilitate CMJ reporting) and a flush flag
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