Electronic Music Library’s Blog

When a music supervisor visits Electronic Music Library and browses or
searches for music he or she will soon realise that the music itself is of a
good standard and well produced. However it isn?t always the case with some
online music libraries. One policy some of the other guys have that I feel
is to the detriment of customers is that they enable their artists to upload
all their own tracks. Not only this, anyone can upload a track that they
have produced. So, as much as this provides a wonderfully large collection
and choice, the choice will undoubtedly be too large and cumbersome for
clients to browse through.

I was recently given the example of an offline library who were proud in
their ability to hand over a hundred CDs to a client and told them to search
for anything they liked. Unfortunately, as much as many libraries boast
about the large amounts of music they have to offer, they don?t offer better
ways to search and filter these tracks to get to a more accurate selection
to audition.

These two issues more than likely ensures that client?s jobs become much
harder than they need to be. Artists will upload music that clients of the
library?s target market might never want to use which also dilute and make
the library unwieldy in size.

My recommendation for anyone using a music library is to test the search
facilities and see how many results return if you provide a very specific
search criteria. For example, choose two or three of the search fields to
enter specific words against to see how many return. If you have more than
25 then make the search more specific.

Good luck!

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