Product guide · Volume 001
Keep the music. Keep what it meant.
A Digital Box Set gives a band a lasting public archive and a private place to collect, protect, approve, and publish the stories around its music.
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One product with two connected sides
The public side is made for fans. The private side is made for the band and its trusted team. Content moves between them only when the band publishes it and the contributor has granted the required permission.
Fan experience
The band’s branded archive: records, eras, shows, artifacts, official links, and approved fan stories. Fans can read, explore, and send a private letter to the band.
Steward Studio
The band’s working area: create archive chapters, review fan letters, preserve files with credits and rights, and prepare approved material for an edition.
One product, two sides
Fan Experience and Steward Studio are both A Digital Box Set
Fan experience
This is what the audience receives. It lives at the band's chosen URL and contains only published or explicitly approved material.
Steward Studio
This is A Digital Box Set's built-in backend and dashboard. It is where a band customizes its box set, manages content, reviews submissions, tracks rights, and chooses what fans can see. In production it requires a band account.
Band → fans → band
How the complete loop works
- The band creates its workspace and replaces all template content with its identity, releases, links, and visual system.
- The band builds and publishes archive chapters in Steward Studio.
- Fans visit the public experience through the band’s site, mailing list, QR code, anniversary campaign, or social channels.
- A fan writes what a song, album, or show meant and chooses whether the message stays private or may be considered for sharing.
- The letter enters the band’s private inbox. Nothing publishes automatically.
- The band holds, approves, or follows up on eligible material.
- Approved stories can join the archive or an editorial package for a zine, anniversary book, liner notes, or campaign—with the contributor’s permission preserved.
Band workspace
Using Steward Studio
Overview
See the current size and readiness of the collection. The counts summarize chapters, artifacts, letters, and approved stories.
Fan letters
Review what arrived. “Hold” keeps a contribution out of public use. “Approve” is available only when the writer granted sharing permission; publication consent is tracked separately.
Collection
Create releases, historical chapters, shows, and artifacts. Save unfinished work as a draft or publish finished material to the fan experience.
Images & rights
Store each image with its caption, creator credit, and rights state. “Permission needed” prevents an asset from entering a rights-cleared editorial export.
Publishing queue
Download a structured package containing published entries, book-approved stories, and cleared assets. Future editions can add PDF, zine, and print-layout exports.
Connection map
What every link and CTA does
| Control | Connected behavior |
|---|---|
| I Made You a Mix Tape mark | Returns to the top of the fan experience. |
| Fan experience | Opens the public archive a fan sees. |
| Steward Studio | Opens the band-facing collection, moderation, rights, and publishing workspace. |
| Tell them what it meant | Opens the fan-letter form. The writer chooses privacy and reuse permissions. |
| Turn the record over | Flips the sleeve and reveals the B-side explanation. |
| Open the collection | Moves to the published archive chapters. |
| Visit official source | Opens the official URL attached to an archive entry. |
| Add chapter / New entry | Opens the editor for a release, chapter, show, or artifact. |
| Preserve image | Uploads an image together with its caption, credit, and rights status. |
| Hold / Approve | Keeps a fan letter private or approves an eligible story for use. |
| Download editorial package | Exports published entries, book-approved letters, and rights-cleared assets as structured JSON. |
| Collection settings | Returns here until branded settings and authentication are connected. |
Coming with account setup
Collection settings
This is where each purchased edition will become the band’s own: band name, logo, colors, typography, archive title, custom domain, official music links, merchandise, tickets, mailing list, contributor terms, team members, and publishing defaults.
The current button deliberately opens this guide. It should not pretend to save settings until authentication and permanent database storage are connected.
Before sharing publicly
Launch checklist
- Replace every placeholder and demonstration entry.
- Connect the band workspace, database, authentication, and file storage.
- Add owners, editors, and viewers with the correct permissions.
- Write the band’s contributor terms and privacy notice.
- Test fan-letter privacy, approval, deletion, and export.
- Confirm credits and rights for every public asset.
- Add official streaming, ticket, merchandise, and mailing-list destinations.
- Test keyboard, mobile, reduced-motion, and screen-reader behavior.
- Connect the custom domain and analytics selected by the band.