Media & Entertainment
The design of a content management system for a major Thai music company: one catalogue of songs, albums and their media, cleaned and migrated from the old system, with contracts, requests for media and delivery to digital music platforms. MERCIL designed it in four phases, from UX/UI to architecture, APIs and data.
3 min read
4
design phases, from catalogue to digital platforms
8
media types per song, from audio to artwork
35 weeks
planned across the four phases
The client is a major Thai music company with a large catalogue of songs and albums. Each song comes with its media, such as audio, music videos and karaoke, concerts and artwork, and with the rights and contracts that govern how it can be used.
The client's need
The catalogue lived in an old system, and its data needed cleaning before it could be trusted. Songs, albums and media files had to be registered and found in one place, with the right people allowed to see and change them.
Around the catalogue, the company needed to create the contracts that cover its music, let teams request media for their work and approve those requests, and deliver releases to digital music platforms in the format each one expects.
How we fitted it
We split the work into four phases so each part could be agreed before the next began: the catalogue and content cleansing (8 weeks), project codes (6 weeks), contracts and requisitions (13 weeks), and digital platform dispatch (8 weeks).
Each phase followed the same path, from requirements to a complete design pack:
The architecture moves the catalogue out of the old database on a schedule and cleans it through ETL into a new data structure. One API serves the web apps and an optional Windows app for large media files, and sign-in uses the client’s own authentication. We updated the client at least every two weeks.
What we built
Outcome
Catalogue teams
One place for the catalogue
Songs, albums and their media, cleaned, registered and searchable, with requests handled in the system.
Rights and contract teams
Contracts tied to the content
Composition and control contracts, and media requests that are approved or rejected with a reason.
The client’s developers
A design ready to build
Screens, permissions, architecture, APIs, data design and test cases for each phase.
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