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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

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 Competition and alternatives include: [http://www.grooveshark.com grooveshark] [http://www.playlist.com playlist.com] [http://last.fm last.fm] [http://www.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/features/ubuntu-one ubuntu-one] [http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=dm_gw_jl_gs?ie=UTF8&node=2658409011&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=gateway-center-column&pf_rd_r=1XFYK1P0CWYVB8HF93TT&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1292123082&pf_rd_i=507846 amazon] [http://music.google.com/about/ google] [http://pandora.com pandora] [http://www.subsonic.org subsonic] [http://apple.com/itunes itunes] [http://www.exaile.org/ exaile] [http://orb.com orb] [http://mediamonkey.com mediamonkey] [http://amarok.kde.org/ amarok] [http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/21/reuters-apple-set-to-launch-cloud-based-music-service-ahead-of/ apple]
-Man EVERYBODY's doing it!
+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.
-But this project truly allows you to '''reclaim your culture'''.
+Reclaim your culture.
 == Components ==
-You will find a component diagram on the [http://thedigitalage.org main web site].  Here is the corresponding component list.
+* [http://thedigitalage.org Component diagram]
+* [[The Digital Age: Share The DJ ]] an Apache-based web server that serves up your media and metadata; derived from [http://www.ampache.org ampache]
-* [[The Digital Age: Share The DJ ]] a server exposing a web services XML API to access media and metadata (derived from [http://www.ampache.org ampache])
 * [[The Digital Age: Repository]] a central repository of media and corresponding metadata (stored in a mysql database)
 * clients:
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 ** [[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 ==