Musicbank: Scanning CDs
Musicbank allowed user’s access to streamed tracks after they scanned their CDs using a simple Windows application. When the user inserted a CD the application would identify the CD by comparing it;s table of contents to cddb.com. At this early stage of online music access there severa issues we needed to address:
The legal quagmire surrounding internet media distribution meant that none, some, or possibly all the tracks on any given CD could be “blocked” by the publisher.
A CD may or may not be recognizable
A CD might be recognized, but we didn’t have the CD encoded yet.
Etc…
When we figured out those issues, I made a recommendation on error messaging that would help set expectations for the user.
(This is a pdf)
