About SEMSIX
What we wanted to achieve with SEMSIX
- A targeted search for artists and albums
- Search result page had to be laid out clearly, with music sorted as it is done for music collections
- Everyone had to find all tracks of an album, or of a compilation, quickly
- It had to be possible to create and save playlists, so no-one would have to search for the same song twice
- It had to be easy to share playlists with friends
- All without users having to install "shady applications" on their computers
In a nutshell: We wanted to develop a comfortable web application, which tames the giant music collection on the internet.
The Project
When we decided to develop SEMSIX in March 2009 the new semester had just begun. So we registered it as a software project at our university.
We choose Adobe Flex as programming framework, because the majority of internet users have installed Adobe FlashPlayer and we wanted SEMSIX to be able to run on as many computers as possible.
At the outset, development progressed fast. But, since SEMSIX also plays music, we had to do a lot of testing, which eventually slowed development down. But, that was OK - we care about quality. ;-)
The Team
SEMSIX was developed by Martin Jakobus and Ingo Schock. We have been enrolled in the course Computer Science & Media at Stuttgart Media University since the winter semester of 2006/2007.