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An overview of the entire interface is shown here, with the scenario play-through in storyboard format below.
Storyboard
Sketch | Explanation |
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| Lana energetically arrives at the music studio. After chatting with a fellow music director about some new music for a few minutes, she sits down to check her e-mail. |
| She's surprised to see an e-mail from the record label TerrorMonkey, she hasn't heard from them in months. Two of the albums strike her interest, so she uses the direct download links provided to download them to her desktop. |
| She opens up the KaJaM! interface in her browser, and drags the downloaded files onto the interface. |
| The imported zip files immediately start uploading to the playback library. A pane has risen from the bottom of the interface, showing the import progress of the albums. Lana starts filling in the artist name for one of the zipped albums. |
| Filling the artist name for the zip file automatically populates the same field for each of the album tracks. |
| Afterwards, she replaces the generically named "Track1.mp3", "Track2.mp3", "Track3.mp3" with the real track names from a web search for the album. |
| The upload has completed and Lana has filled out all required fields. A confirmation button is now available to add the album to the library. She clicks it. |
| She realizes she forgot to attach the album artwork, so she scrolls down to the "Recently Filed" section of the interface, and clicks on the attachment icon. |
| The dialog box pops up, and Lana sees that the system has already attached the cover-art automatically. The album artwork must've been included in the zip file. |
| The second album is also done uploading. She plays one of the tracks to get a feel for the new music. She loves it. |
| She looks up at the clock and realizes she is short on time. Lana has to make a radio show in thirty minutes. |
| She forwards the record label e-mail to Adam, her assistant ("elf"). She tells him to check KaJaM!, so that he can finish entering the details and add the album to the playback library. Lana leaves in a hurry to prepare for her show. |
| Later that evening, Adam receives Lana's e-mail at his home computer. Even though he's tired from his Computer Science classes that day, he doesn't mind listening to new music while filling in some album details. He finishes by approving the album into the playback library, to be played at a later date on WMBR 88.1. |
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- A user may drag something that does not contain any music at all (a zip file without music files, or a file with an unrecognized extension) in which case we can safely ignore those files
- A user may drag the wrong album(s) or track(s), but these can be easily canceled during import (there is a cancellation button next to the progress bar of each importing album)
- If the user is editing track names for an especially long album, such that they are unable to see the album name on the screen while editing the track names, they may begin entering track names for a different album
- Because all fields are textboxes, this makes accidental keyboard focus (and ensuing typos) likely; one way to deal with this is to run some NLP detection for unpronounceable words and/or try to look-up album track names automatically (one should be careful not to make such a detection algorithm too rigid since creative song names will would hamper efficiency)