KaJaMi
KaJaMing since 2013. Working with the MIT Student Radio Station (WMBR 88.1) to create an online interface to stream music digitally.
Group members
- Ian Jacobi (pipian)
- Dominic Kao (dkao)
- Daniela Miao (dmiao)
Implementation Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0NJUoRmfBk
(Use 1080p)
Problem statement
WMBR, MIT's community radio station, regularly receives promotional music from record companies to play and promote on the air, but due to the size of the music library and the large amount of incoming music, not all of this music will either get played or be able to be kept at the station. To deal with the incoming music, WMBR has a number of music directors whose job is threefold:
- They receive and record incoming music and file it in the “new” section of the library.
- They act as a point of contact with the recording industry by submitting information about top played tracks to CMJ (the College Music Journal) and the record companies.
- They decide whether to file received music in the library or “flush it” from the library.
These tasks can be particularly time-consuming, especially for pop/rock directors who receive the most incoming music. Further complicating matters, record companies have begun to switch to digital downloads as a way to distribute promotional music. As WMBR currently does not have a digital music playback system, there is no easy way to get these promotional tracks played at all without burning the tracks onto a CD and then filing the burned CD, which is a time-consuming process. Although WMBR has strong enough relationships with record companies to be able to obtain physical copies of releases that some stations do not, it is unlikely that this arrangement will last.