The Digital Age

Statement of Purpose

The purpose of The Digital Age project is to make peoples' lives simpler and more enjoyable by simplifying access to quality digital content, anywhere and everywhere.

Several specific requirements arise:

• handle a broad spectrum of digital content
• quantify the ratings of digital content to a meaningful level, accounting for different personal taste
• maintain content in a central collection
• allow access to content from everywhere via a wide range of clients
• design clients based on client constraints (bandwidth, ui size, etc.)
• every client must always provide ability to rate content
• allow for introduction of new content with the greatest possible signal-to-noise ratio
• allow for safe removal of poorly-rated content

Competition and alternatives include: grooveshark playlist.com last.fm ubuntu-one amazon google pandora subsonic itunes exaile orb mediamonkey amarok apple

EVERYBODY's doing it, we must be on the right track here. What sets this project apart? This project is for those who want to have complete control. Most of us have been burned by services that disappear or access that is crippled. If you are ready to fight to regain control, and put in the effort to make it happen, this project may be for you.

Reclaim your culture.

Components

• Component diagram
• The Digital Age: Share The DJ an Apache-based web server that serves up your media and metadata; derived from ampache
• The Digital Age: Repository a central repository of media and corresponding metadata (stored in a mysql database)
• clients:
  • The Digital Age: Hang The DJ desktop a cross-platform desktop client player written in QT
  • The Digital Age: Hang The DJ mediacenter an extension for the xbmc mediacenter
  • The Digital Age: Hang The DJ mobile mobile client players for android, iPhone, etc.

exposing a web services XML API to access

The Roadmap

• see the ticket tracker for feature and bug tickets
• The Philanthropy Engine

Other Thoughts

• The Digital Age Manifesto
• Metadata design - hasn't metadata structure already been designed and data collected? precanned music companies have this nailed down, I'm sure... what about the last.fm API? also see current HTDJ db schema
• expand to other media? movies, games, books
• mobile - tons of work being done - iphone - see iAmpache or this, android, palm webOS, blog)
• see THE DIGITAL AGE SOFTWARE BUSINESS PLAN

tdm_cvs_view/ShareTheDJ/docs/The Digital Age business plan diagrams.odg

• these worth anything? palm, mythtv