Beatbox MD
The Client:
Beatbox is a Sydney based, independently owned and operated Australian company providing one of, if not, the largest selection of production music (more than 80 music libraries containing over 250,000 tracks) to the who's who of the professional media industry in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.
Enotia has enjoyed a close working relationship with Beatbox since 2006 when appointed to develop an e-commerce system allowing customers to purchase a limited sub-set of the extensive BeatBox music library via instant download.
The Background:
As a leader in the field of production music, BeatBox offered the professional media industry access to their music libraries via licensed use of a legacy online system that was developed by a European third party provider.
While the legacy system served its fundamental purpose, the sheer size of the BeatBox database (in excess of a terabyte) was presenting frustratinging slow search results to users and dynamic administration of resources required hands on input from European based personel, which was inconvenient from a physical time difference perspective.
Additionally, the legacy system was in fact a "shared" resource that levied substantial annual licensing fees so the decision to invest in development of a dedicated, custom built BeatBox only system was made.
The Project:
The BeatboxMD project commenced with Enotia producing a comprehensive technical specification document outlining the many complex requirements.
In brief, the project required the following major functional elements:
Beatbox is a Sydney based, independently owned and operated Australian company providing one of, if not, the largest selection of production music (more than 80 music libraries containing over 250,000 tracks) to the who's who of the professional media industry in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia.
Enotia has enjoyed a close working relationship with Beatbox since 2006 when appointed to develop an e-commerce system allowing customers to purchase a limited sub-set of the extensive BeatBox music library via instant download.
The Background:
As a leader in the field of production music, BeatBox offered the professional media industry access to their music libraries via licensed use of a legacy online system that was developed by a European third party provider.
While the legacy system served its fundamental purpose, the sheer size of the BeatBox database (in excess of a terabyte) was presenting frustratinging slow search results to users and dynamic administration of resources required hands on input from European based personel, which was inconvenient from a physical time difference perspective.
Additionally, the legacy system was in fact a "shared" resource that levied substantial annual licensing fees so the decision to invest in development of a dedicated, custom built BeatBox only system was made.
The Project:
The BeatboxMD project commenced with Enotia producing a comprehensive technical specification document outlining the many complex requirements.
In brief, the project required the following major functional elements:
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Automated initial population and highly streamlined ongoing management
of over 80 music library's consisting of thousands of individual albums
and more than 250,000 individual tracks across more than 30 genres
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An ultra simple, user friendly interface and light-speed advanced
search functionality that includes criteria such as user location,
track title, description (keyword), genre, track number, duration, CD
code, composer and more
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A streamlined customer approval and management process including
allocation of "regional" access on a customer-by-customer basis that in
turn restricts access to music tracks on a region-by-region basis
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The ability for approved customers to create, share and download
"projects" containing selected music tracks and the ability to enter
searchable "reference notes" on a track by track basis
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Automated generation of music track data (for reporting purposes to
statutory authorities such as APRA) and inclusion of this data with all
customer downloads of tracks and projects and within administrator
generated site activity reports
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Advanced administrator reporting capabilities that monitor all site
activity and facilitate real-time date based generation of data on a
customer-by-customer, track-by-track, album-by-album and genre-by-genre
basis
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An advanced customer management system that facilitates pro-active
communication and generates e-mail alerts based on periods of
non-activity and other nominal criteria
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The underlying iASP™ cms that facilitates publication
of general content throughout the website, including live modification
to Library, Album, Genre or Track data on a one-on-one basis if
required
Testimonials
"...If I am not wrong this is the newest and the biggest (not sure though) online library for production music with up to 250.000 tracks. However I am sure this vendor has the most up to date database and the easiest interface I have ever seen...TrailerMusicNews.com commenting on the iASP™ cms powered BeatboxMD project...
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