BUILT METADATA FACTORY AND CUSTOM TOOLS

Partnering with the World’s Largest Provider of Digital Content for the Music Industry, with Gamut of Content Solutions to Enhance the User Experience and Faster Content Monetization

The Client powers one of the biggest names in digital media with cutting-edge technology solutions. The Client’s database is the largest source of music and video metadata on the planet featuring descriptions of more than 130 million tracks and TV listings for 28 countries.

Business Scenario

The Client has an immense amount of media (CD, DVD, MP3, etc.) information in different formats stored within disparate systems (Oracle, Excel, and SQL Server). This made the maintenance and tracking of the full media inventory extremely difficult and very time consuming.

Client needed a comprehensive metadata solution to ensure that each customer query received the correct information so as to more easily result in monetization. Client also wished to develop a unified technology (Common Client/SDK Technology) for Mobile, Auto, Cloud/Desktop, and Home with shared code base, which could be used as fundamental building blocks for each Vertical to develop products quickly and provide differentiation for specific market requirements

Project Synopsis

Team developed a custom tool for Metadata normalization for the client. The tool provided metadata seeding, editing, review and approval features to improve productivity and accuracy of the metadata factory operations.
Reduction in transaction time by 30% by organizing content storage to eliminate content duplication as well as automating business processes to ensure better process compliance and improve the process efficiency

Increased user productivity with easy access to media assets and improved record keeping of media assets. Also, users at different locations are now able to collaborate effectively while working on common media assets
Developed a testing framework that can support Common SDK for all the verticals as per Client expectations, Successfully tested and helped deliver high valued products to their customers including Apple, Amazon, Sony, and many more.

1.5MM

Songs with enhanced lyrics

15,000

Test scripts defined for all verticals

Years of strong partnership

Solutions

Client is world’s first and largest commercial digital lyric offering seeded with 1.5 million records – Developed and designed repository, data structure, proprietary content, and meta-data processing techniques for lyrics editing, transcription, and delivery of lyrics, including research for incomplete metadata.
Delivery of detailed metadata for12,000 CD Albums – Delivery of CD Album metadata for releases before1998; metadata has been aggregated, normalized, researched, and strengthened
Cover Art Image Testing and Acquisition for over 55,000 titles – Researched and found missing cover art, acquired images, verified and uploaded data to repository
Metadata validation, research and matching for over 60,000 TV Series and Movies – Research and verification of metadata against reference sites to fix incorrect metadata and complete missing information—all in just three months
Development of QA Testing Framework: Developed a testing framework that can support Common SDK for all the verticals
Maintenance of QA Testing Framework: Implementation of all the new/change requests that come from the customer to support their market forays.
Regression Testing: We perform regular regression testing on multiple platforms with short turnaround times, thereby helping the customer meet their own internal timelines.
API Testing: Performs white box testing for all the API which are part of the client SDK, delivered to their customers worldwide.
System Testing: End-to-end testing of applications including Automatic Content Recognition -ACR and IPG (Interactive Programming Guide)