Design and architecture of a digital music library on the Web

Abstract

Presents a Web-based digital music library based on a 3-tier architecture. The primary goal is to manage efficiently distributed mp3 file collections. The proposed methodology makes use of the metadata existing inside the ID3 tag of each mp3 file. Such information is extracted from the corresponding files and stored in separate XML-based data stuctures, which are part of the overall distributed information retrieval module. The digital library's actual data is kept at the back-end in a distributed fashion. Communication between the layers of the digital library and the various architectural components that reside at the middle layer is facilitated through the employment of the XML standard. (Original abstract - amended)