For the past few months at Mastermix HQ, the term ‘V3′ has become very commonly used… It stands for ‘Version 3′ and is the nickname we gave to the latest incarnation of www.mastermixdigital.com that’s been in development over the summer months!
To our great delight, V3 is now fully launched with a brand new look and some interesting new features, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to talk you through a few of them in more detail!
Home Page
We’ve redesigned the look of the homepage so you can quickly find everything you need, as well as seeing the latest products at a glance! The central box will also be updated regularly with offers and seasonal products.
Product Pages
We’ve changed the focus of the downloads site so that all our product ranges are easy to find and navigate through. When you select a product range such as ‘Grandmasters’ from the menu bar, you’ll be presented with a list of all the albums in this section, as well as options to refine the results for particular genres or occasions.
Theme Tunes
Our Theme Tunes collection is pretty colossal, if we do say so ourselves, so we’ve taken the time to sub categorise the entire range into genres and particular types of shows. So you no longer need to rack your brain for the name of that American Sitcom that you can’t get out of your head – just select that sub category and scroll through the results!
Back Covers
We’re now delivering the front and back covers of our albums along with your order, so you can add these to your digital music collection and have a handy reference point for each mix or track. The covers are delivered as jpegs and included in your zip file order. We’re currently uploading all the back covers from our older albums, so be patient with us or email us if there’s a particular back cover you’d like, for an album you’ve purchased recently from Mastermix Digital.
Cue Sheets
When we first launched Mastermix Digital, we chose to deliver any mixes as one continuous file, rather than chopped up into separate files at the mix points. We decided on this approach because some software can put gaps between album tracks, which would of course spoil the mix – even if you instruct the software not to leave gaps, MP3s very often embed tiny bits of silence at each end of the track, barely noticeable but enough to spoil a mix! However we know that this doesn’t help if you have a 70 minute Grandmaster and want to jump to a particular point in the mix, so now we’ve given you an area to download Cue Sheets for the Grandmasters that you’ve purchased. Cue Sheets are text documents that contain timecodes of all the mix points within the album, and can be used by certain software packages to add track markers to the file.
Search Facility
If you’ve not got the results you were hoping for when you’ve completed a search on Mastermix Digital, there’s now an advanced search facility that enables you to refine your results by Artist, Title, Product Type, Genre, or Occasion. You can also search by Track or Album, depending on what you’re looking for.
That’s just a few of the enhancements that we’ve introduced into Version 3 of Mastermix Digital; we’re constantly tweaking and altering the site to make it more user friendly, as well as uploading new content on a daily basis, and we’d love to hear your feedback!
Let us know what you think by commenting on here, or on our Facebook Page, or sending us a Tweet!
Helen xx
