User Inspired Development - Usage Statistics Reporting

Hi All,

We've got some pretty awesome (and big) news for you all! Our next NML design and development feature was 100% inspired by your feedback. Thanks for all of the help, support, and suggestions over the past few months!

You wanted better Usage Statistics.
You're 'gettin 'em!

Soon, the Naxos Online Library usage statistics windows will offer some great new features. We've taken some screenshots below of the new features. Be sure to comment below, email, or stop by our booths at the League of American Orchestras conference and ALA Annual Meetings later this month with all of your ideas and suggestions!

** As always, the development information and screenshots are taken from our test servers. Information, presentation, features, and everything else can (and most likely will) change from what's posted below. We're simply excited to give you a sneak peek!**

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• Standard View Updated!

Nothing will change as far as "how" you access your usage stats. You'll still log in with your Administrator or Librarian account. However, now, the stats will load on the main NML page! No more crazy pop-ups!


There are a few things to note on this screen. First, all of the relevant data is available for a "6 month" snapshot by default.

• Export to Excel!

Now, you'll be able to export whatever window you're viewing directly to an excel spreadsheet! You can export any of the windows we'll show below, so go crazy! Here's a screenshot of what the excel export looks like.

• Top 20!

Want to see what you're users are listening to? Curious about what's most popular in your subscription? With the "Top 20" view, you'll be able to see what's most popular.

Our Orchestra friends will be able to see what type of music interests their subscrbers. Imagine knowing exactly what to program for next year!

• Daily and Hourly Breakdowns!

Want even MORE information? Not a problem! Just like before, you can break stats down by day. Check daily usage, track information, and much more. A new "Hourly" stats feature has also been added.

Here are a few screenshots that show the process from top to bottom. The Red arrows show the "click" progression down the page.




Once you expand the window to the Hourly view, you're able to export THAT to Excel too!


We hope you enjoy these little previews of things to come. I know I LOVE showing off so many of the cool development features. The changes could go live as early as next week (6.16.10), but no promises!

Have questions or comments? Feel free to re-post this blog, write, or call anytime!

Happy Statistical Analysis,
Nick


Nick D'Angiolillo
615.465.3836
Nick@NaxosUSA.com

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Free Music at ALA2010

In just a few weeks Naxos will be convening with librarians from across the country at the ALA conference in Washington D.C. It will be my first library conference, so I am looking forward to meeting many of you in person! As you may have heard on our Twitter feed or in our newsletter, we will have a Foursquare competition at the ALA2010 conference! Visit the Naxos booth (#2544) and check-in on Foursquare to receive a Free gift bag with CDs from Naxos until they're gone!


Stop by, check in, get Free Music!

And say hello to your friendly, neighborhood Naxos representatives, Anne and Nick :)
Happy Friday!
Anne

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Blue is the new grey!

Hi Friends,

Happy Friday! Below is a screenshot I saw this morning, and I just had to share. On our test servers, the NML's player window is blue!

Do you like the blue? If you could choose a color for the window, what would it be? Would you like to be able to change the color of the Player Window on the fly- or is it "All about the music, who cares about colors!"?

Leave your answer in the comment for a chance to win an NML "Prize Pack" complete with some fun items, as well as some CD's!


As always, feel free to call or write anytime.

- Nick

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615.465.3836
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600,00 Tracks and Climbing!

What a great week this has been for the NOL Team!

Not only did we launch the Naxos Spoken Word Library App and welcome our 2,000th Twitter follower, but we also hit that wonderful 600,000 track marker!

To celebrate this milestone we've decided to spotlight a feature of the NML that will help you keep up with all of those additions!

The NML RSS Feed

Below you can find a step by step (and picture by picture) guide to using the RSS Feed available with the NML.

Adding as many albums per day as we do (sometimes, it's over 100 albums per day!) it can be tough to keep track of just how many new additions there are. The RSS feed includes every album added to the NML. For those who don't use RSS feed's currently, the page can feel a bit daunting...don't fret!

Thanks to the folks at www.feedicons.com for providing the icon to the left! Visit their site to download all shapes, colors, and resolutions of the RSS icon!



First, visit the "Home" screen in the NML. Simply click on the little house (see below). Then, click on the RSS Icon


In a separate tab, the window below will open. If you use an RSS manager, you'll know what to do here. You can also use the new version of Outlook to manage your feeds, and that's what I'll be showing below.

Next, Outlook will prompt you to "allow" the feed.

And voila! Every album added to the NML will now be available for you to quickly, and easily browse. I'll leave it to you to figure out how to use this information, but now you know how to get it!

Thanks to both our Label partners and all of you - our subscribers. It's time to start the countdown (or count up?) to 1,000,000 tracks!

Happy RSS'ing,
Nick


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NSWL iPhone App! - Updated

The third App from Naxos is now complete. Soon, audiobooks and musical texts will be even easier to access on the go with the Naxos Spoken Word Library App!

Click Here to Download the App!

The NSWL allows for streaming of the Naxos Audio Books label, a wonderful new Bookmarking feature (see below for a great new App feature), and access to more than 500 titles!

Below are some screen shots from the iPod/iPhone/iPad App. This week, Nick will also be at the AISL annual conference (here in Nashvegas!), and he'll have the Beta version of the App for all to see and "play with"!

*As always, these shots were taken from a Beta version of the App. Things can, and most likely will, change between now and the release of the App on the App store. *





<---- Search Page



Album Page ---->

The ability to add and delete bookmarks on the go is a GREAT new feature of the NSWL app! Simply click on the + to start the process. These bookmarks are then available both on the App, and on the computer!




<---Add a Bookmark



Delete a
Bookmark --->




- Nick

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Video Tutorials!

Hey there, subscribers,

Naxos Music Library has started creating video tutorials! We've posted our first two videos on the newly-created Naxos Online Libraries channel. Soon there will be short video tutorials answering all "how-to" questions for Naxos Online Libraries-- both online and on YouTube. If you have specific questions you'd like answered in a video tutorial, let us know. All suggestions are welcome!

Creating a Student Playlist Account
















AND



Building (and editing) Playlists in the Naxos Music Library
















Cheers!

Anne

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NML App Update (V2.1)

Hi Friends,

As busy as we have been with our travels, we've launched an update for the NML iPhone app.

Click on "Updates" to download and install the NML update!

Some of our users have expereinced a weird bug, that was preventing them from connecting to a Wireless network. Installing the update (to Version 2.1) should solve the problem. If it doesn't below is a step by step guide to troubleshooting the device.

1. Tap on "Listen For Free"

2. Tap on "More"


3. Tap on Support


4. Tap on Send! This will send all of the appropriate diagnostic information to our Customer Service and Development team. If you have trouble sending email messages from the app, you can copy and paste the body of text into a regular email message to "Customer.Service@Naxos.com".


If you have any questions, feel free to call or write anytime!

See you in Portland for PLA! Stop by booth #636 and take a look at the NVL, and the new iPhone App!

- Nick

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NVL Usage Stats

Hi Folks,

A short, sweet, and relatively self explanatory post today. The Naxos Video Library now has live usage statistics availbe for viewing and manipulation. A few screen shots appear below.

As with all of the Naxos databases, you've got to log in with your "Administrator" username and password. If you're unsure about your account login details, feel free to call or write!

There's also a new "Manage Account" window as well. See below for screenshots of that window too.

If you aren't an NVL subscriber or haven't already trialed the NVL, now's a great time. NML subscribers need only "say the word"!

Enjoy!

NVL Usage Stats Window

One of my favorite "stats" feature, is the ability to group the stats by video. Should a professor create a playlist with 15 clips from the same opera, you can now group them together! Figure (b) shows the same group of stats, "grouped by video".

Figure (b) "Grouped by Video" stats

NVL Manage Account Window

Cheers!
Nick

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*Live* - NML iPhone App - Version 2.0

I'm such a geek for updates. Really. I am guilty of hitting that "Refresh" button on just about every page, hoping for something new. The good news, is that we actually have a VERY cool update to share with everyone!

The NML iPhone App has been so well received (and we THANK YOU!!!), that we couldn't just stop there. There was so much more that could be done! Well, see below for some great screenshots of the new NML iPhone App 2.0.

** Version 2.0 is now Live! Visit the App Store, or click the link below to update your version!**

That shouldn't stop us from updating you though? Right? :) If you don't have the current NML iPhone app, click the link below to download it now!

Download the current NML iPhone App!

Version 2.0 of the app will still allow you to view your custom, individual playlists, as well as the professor/administrator created ones. Those menu's received a slight "Texture" update. I'm a fan of the new buttons!


Not sure about what to listen to? Soon , there will be some "Naxos" created playlists too! These will also start to appear on the "Web-Based" NML pages too, so keep your eyes peeled!

Who knows, we may even hold contests for our readers to submit playlists! Thinks like composer or period specific playlists are always great!

If you're following us on Twitter or Facebook, you may have seen my love for Steve Reich. Ever since my Musicology research paper in college, I've had a soft spot in my musical heart for his music. Hence my 4 differnet Steve Reich compilation playlists.

The same goes for my hopeful inclusion of a "Marimba" playlist. (being a percussionist)

Quick! How many drummers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
Answer: Five. One to screw the bulb in, and four to talk about how much better Neil Peart could have done it.

Har Har Har - now back to the Updates!

Thanks to DrumJokes.com for the Friday Funny.
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The next "button" on our stop, is the Catalog button. This menu brings up a simple search bar. Essentially, it performs a keyword search within the Naxos Music Library and displays the results on your iPhone/iPod Touch!

Searching for "Brahms" brings up this window ----------------->

The next window brings up a track listing, as well as the album description. See below for another side-by-side set of screenshots.

<------- This appears at the Top of an Album Page

This appears at the bottom of a Album's Page -------->
(simply scroll down to the bottom of the track listing)






The player window remains unchanged, except for the fact that you can now hit the "Back" button, navigate to a new piece, scroll, browse..etc... all while the music plays!
If you couldn't tell, we're really excited about this new version! If you have any questions, need help creating playlists, or simply want to chat, feel free to call or write anytime!

Happy Updates!
Nick

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I’ve found myself listening to a lot of Hugo Alfven and Hakon Borresen this week. Their symphonies captivated me, thanks to #symphonyaday on Twitter, and I quickly looked for as many recordings of their respective works as I could find. When I noticed the two men were born within a few years of one another, I decided to find music by a few of their contemporaries as well. This week’s pieces were all composed by men born in the 1870s. Enjoy!


1. Hugo Alfven (1872-1960) –“Dalarapsodi” (Dalecarlian Rhapsody), Op. 47, “Swedish Rhapsody No. 3” (8.553729) This beautiful programmatic piece depicts a young sheppard girl’s dream. Alfven wrote, "I imagine a shepherd-girl sitting on the grass at her mountain farm in the quiet and deserted woodlands, blowing her horn. I want to depict her dreams, her longing. In the distance she hears a bridal procession pass by and in her dreams she is once more among her friends down in the village. She remembers merry dances in the evenings and church on Sundays and the exalted solemn hymns. She shivers as she remembers the night when a strange man appeared among them, seized a fiddle and played wild and strange tunes that made the people go mad. It was the Devil himself. The shepherd-girl starts up with a cry of fear, then she wakes from her horrible dream and looks around in confusion. Quietly she takes up her horn again. I hear the same melody as in the beginning. And the woods answer her, sighing deeply."
2. Guillaume Lekeu (1870-1894) –Violin Sonata in G major (AR-0012-2)
3. Hakon Borresen (1876-1954) –Symphony No. 1 in c minor (8.554950)
4. Ludolf Nielson (1876-1939) –Babelstarnet (The Tower of Bable), Op. 35 and Skovvandring (Forest Walk), Op. 40 (8.224157
5. Hugo Alfven –Vaggvisa (Lullaby) (BIS-CD-633)
6. Paul Jeanjean (1875-1929) –Prelude et Scherzo (MM1024) Piece for bassoon and piano; short and sweet with a fun, bouncy scherzo
7. Henri Zagwijn (1878-1954) –“Zeergedragen” (CC72166) This little-known Dutch composer was entirely self-taught with a small body of work. This is the only piece we have in the NML, and it’s a great piece for solo harmonium.
8. Hakon Borresen –Violin Concerto in G Major, Op. 11 (DACOCD465-466)
9. Roger Quitter (1877-1953) –Country Pieces (8.223444) Great English composer—His pieces are childlike, light and just plain fun.
10. Henry Hadley (1871-1937) –Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 132 (TROY305)