RE: Library Software

["Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@xxxxxxx>]

I've seen Keiths screenshots and the really do look the dogs danglies ...

... would look superb on an ePod.

(Actually, I loaded it up on my ePod and they do look superb!)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keith Doxey [mailto:ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 March 2001 13:45
> To: ukha_d
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Library Software
>
>
> I still am :-)
>
> My jukebox has the graphical appearance of a classic Wurlizer
> and will allow
> unlimited creation of playlists. It looks great when
> displayed on a TV :-)
>
> I dont use MP3 tags because I didnt really know about them at
> the time I
> started ripping.
>
> My collection is mostly Compilations and many of them dont
> appear on CDDB
> anyway.
>
> My MP3 files are called xxxyy.mp3 where xxx is the album
> number and yy is
> the track number.
>
> One interesting point to note when people are quoting how
> many Gb's of mp3's
> they have.... my database currently stores the info on
>
> Total Albums 86
> Total Artists 715
> Total Tracks 1691
> Total Songs 1305
> MP3 Files 1305
>
> Themes 7
> Genres 27
> Eras 7
> Chart Entries 0
> Playlists 0
>
> I havent started to enter the Chart info or playlists yet but you will
> notice that the number of songs is less than the number of
> tracks. This is
> because of duplicates that are on several CD's. The current
> saving of 386
> tracks not ripped is over 1Gb of space saved.
>
> From a song title I can return a list of all the Physical
> CD's that contain
> the track. I can then click on the title of the album to list
> all the other
> tracks on the album.
>
> At any stage I can instantly play the MP3 file.
>
> Future features will be the ability to create Audio or MP3
> CD's from the
> database so that I can create "The Best <whatever> Album At
The Time"
>
> Searching can be done as follows.....
>
> For the title Search, if less than 4 characters are entered
> then the search
> is for titles starting with the entered characters e.g. LOV
> will search for
> LOV* finding songs starting Love, Loving etc. If 4 or more
> characters are
> entered the search will be for any title containing the
> entered string e.g.
> LOVE will return any song with Love anywhere in the title. If
> the entered
> string contains any spaces it is automatically split and will
> search for
> titles that contain ALL the entered words e.g. “LOVE WHAT”
> will return with
> Tina Turner’s “WHAT’s LOVE  got to do with it?” etc.
>
> The Artist search performs in a similar way with the primary
> search being on
> the Artist Surname/Groupname. Entering “JO” would return
> “Elton JOHN, Tom
> JONES” etc. If the entered string contains a “\” (backslash)
> then the search
> is also performed on the Artist firstname.  “E\JO” will match
> “Elton JOHN “
>
> There is also a "Digital DJ" mode with 2 embeded media
> players at the top
> left and top right of the screen and a search page in the
> lower half. From
> the listing returned by the search you can either LOAD a
> track into a media
> player and manually start it, or PLAY a track in a media
> player whereby it
> will auto start.
>
> I wish I'd had access to this technology when I was a DJ....
> it would have
> saved an awful lot of backache lugging 20 crates of records about :-)
>
> One day I will post a demo version on the net when I get it
> to a stage that
> I am happy to let people play with.
>
> Keith.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark McCall [mailto:mark@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 13:19
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Library Software
>
>
> Lovely setup!
>
> Looks like a commercial product.  Keith was working on
> something similar I
> think.
>
> M.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Adam Stevens" <adam@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:52 PM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Library Software
>
>
> > I use an Access database (soon to be SQL Server) to catalog
> MP3 tracks
> which
> > I've ripped from my CDs.  I also found the CDDB problem
> with compilation
> > CD's, but there are a few bits of software out there which
> will rename the
> > ID tag depending on the file name - This works quite well
> as the files are
> > generally saved as "<artist> -
<track>.mp3".  I found it
> surprisingly
> > pain-less to re-ID tag all my MP3s.
> >
> > I'm not at home at the moment, and can't remember the name
> of the software
> I
> > use to do this, however it also has a really nice feature
> which allows a
> CSV
> > file to be created of all MP3 files, which can then be
> imported into a
> > database (or Excel).  I'll dig it out this evening if
> you're interested.
> >
> > Take a look at
> http://zz9.dyndns.org/home/music/mp3search.asp
to see what
> it
> > looks like (click on "login as guest", and wait a
while...
> The database
> > access is a little slow at the moment, hence the change to
> SQL Server
> > soon! - Mind you, there are over 10,000 MP3s there!).
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Adam.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:11 PM
> > > To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> > > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Library Software
> > >
> > >
> > > Stuart,
> > >
> > > It's not what you want to hear, but I used Excel for my
> fiction library
> > > (about 2000 books.)
> > >
> > > My logic was that
> > >
> > > - the data is fundamentally a single table so there wasn't
> > > particularly any
> > > mileage to gain out of normalising the data into anything
> relational.
> > >
> > > - where I've got repetitive data (like Author name) Excel
> does the "copy
> > > down" or autofill nicely
> > >
> > > - I figured up front that I'd want to muck around with
> the fields. I
> > > subsequently added stuff like "series name" and
"series
> number" to the
> > > original
> > >
> > > On the CDs, I think the same applies. I've had trouble
> with CDDB on
> > > compilation CDs, where the "performer/artist"
field _isn't_ at
> > > the CD level
> > > but the track level...
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
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> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 15 March 2001 10:59
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] Library Software
> > >
> > >
> > > Does anyone know of any software that will let me catalogue
my
> > > CD/DVD/Video/MP3/Book collection?
> > >
> > > I had a cuecat shipped over from the states a while back, so
> > > something that
> > > can use that would be cool as well.
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