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In this paper, we illustrate the decision making intrinsic that was followed while designing for the users of a music archive. The archive at stake is the Ionian Music Archive, an on-line service at refinement phase that holds records of the characteristic music of the Ionian Islands in Greece. The main challenge was how to best engage user adaptation on a system with certain attributes such as a high variation on users’ music knowledge. We propose a two-folded decision making process for its design. The one side of the process lies on design rationale techniques at earlier stages and the other side is akin to formal multi-criteria approaches and is applied on every high-level decision to further weigh the user adaptation attributes that are included in the system. The initial feedback we collected is very encouraging, setting the basis for future implementations.