Sketch 1 |
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- Using Dropbox as inspiration, this design 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 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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Sketch 2 |
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- This design aims to circumvent the tedious e-mail correspondence entirely by providing a separate interface for record labels
- Record labels and artists 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 for each track
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Sketch 3 |
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- This interface mimics iTunes for external consistency and therefore (supposedly) 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 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 (to facilitate CMJ reporting) and a flush flag
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