Music lovers who actively discover new music need bookmarks that divide individual songs into different sections, because seconds & minutes are ineffective indicators of song position and inject stress into the music discovery process.

Borui Tony Cecilia Huisi

Wednesday, February 27, 13

STRESS USER BOOKMARKS

Time-consuming

Uncertainty

Boredom

Explore

Purchase

Playlist

Efficiency

Confidence

Newness

Drop/Remove

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RelatedSpotify/Rdio/Grooveshark - music discovery through popular/top lists & friends' playlists, full length "preview"

Pandora - music discovery through automatically generated playlist of similar music, limited preview ability

ITunes - limited but immediate preview of a large collection

Infinite Jukebox - explores music segmentation, infinitely loops a song at viable breakpoints

Wednesday, February 27, 13

TrendsPeople who are discovering/purchasing new music experience stress

when they can't preview the entire song

People who listen to a large volume of songs feel stressed when they

have to spend lots of time listening to the whole songs to choose

which to download or put into their playlists

Seconds & minutes is not a good unit of length for music tracks

Existing services usually offer either a single short preview or preview

the entire song

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OpportunitiesDividing segments of music by bookmarks can reduce listeners'

stress by giving more control to the listeners during the

exploring process

Music bookmarking might reduce the stress of the listeners who

have to to repeated sections in songs by reducing the amount of

repetitions

Visualization of sound segments might provide more intuitive

musical cues and reduce uncertainty for music discovery

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