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Outline

• Introduction
• The tape cassette study
• Problems with digital music libraries
• Results of analysis
• Design Implications
• Conclusions

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Introduction

• Research questionWhat can we learn from the
  storage of analogue media that can be applied to
  the design of digital music libraries?

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Introduction

• Itunes, Winamp, Windows Media Player

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Problems

• Proposed framework
• Organizing issues around browsing a collection
• Personalizing Issues around customizing items in
  a collection and sharing them
• Digitization Issues around the loss of physical
  affordances and documentation

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Organizing

• Emphasizes search and sort

• Tapes could be browsed

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Personalizing

• Mix tapes represent relationships and events
• Could be shared

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Digitizing

• Personal musical histories are recorded by old
  media

this is a tape from 1998 or so from jenna, an
old penpal. i still miss her. the other tapes are
ones i made or sssb made.
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Analysis of organization

• Ratings not used (75)
• 30 report not organizing their collection

lisa ici says Heh, that could be my tape
collection. aoneko says Hee! I have a crate
like this too. Lot of the same tapes in there.
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Analysis of personalization

• 75 had more than one mixtape in their collection
• 80 reported making a mix at least within the
  past year.

• The personal feelings sewn into those drives is
  something that measures far above the cold,
  distanced feeling I get from sitting around
  someone's computer listening to shuffled music.

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Analysis of digitization

• Tapes kept for , sentiment, Nostalgia AND fear of
  loss
• The music was still listened to by many

• so i was cleaning (trying to) my room earlier.
  hehe and i opened 1 of my cassette drawers.. hehe
  instant flashback. i havent listened to them for
  ages. maybe last time was when i was in college?
  cassette was the way to go... - pale spectre

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Conclusions

• Tapes were more useful
• Much more research to be done
• Music libraries can be improved

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