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MyLibrary v2.16
What Is It ?
This application allows you to manage a tab-delimited file that
contains details of your music library. It is designed to accept
a pre-configured CSV file (such as that created in
MP3Tag), an M3U file or will read
a whole folder of files. You can then edit extra
details like Intro/Segue times, EndType, Opener and Category. To save re-reading
large folders, you can save the data to a single character/tabbed
text-file which (on my 3.6GHz Vista machine with 13,000 files)
takes 2 seconds to load and 12 seconds to save.
This is a project
that I originally intended "for me" but due to it's apparent
usefulness I have decided to make it publicly available and to
include some features requested by users.
MyLibrary In
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Latest Release:
v2.16 - 22nd February
Added Artist/Title search facility - Use either the search
button on the main screen or the right-click menu. Applies to main
viewer list only!
Amended EncoDAD DropBox template to include MyLibrary's Cart field
- allows you to import the file as the cart number rather than
DADS's next available cut number. This is helpful if you have
multiple systems using cart number and/or have specific items in
various "cart ranges".
Revised CartNo B* button: An empty CartNo value (with Clear
Existing Carts ticked) will erase ALL selected Cart values in the
current view.
Added Advert Type and Account Manager to the Song Card Editor.
Type will be used with AdMan, JockMaster and Trust to determine
the type of product/service that the advert is for - allowing you
to keep similar advertisers apart during an ad-break.
So, what can it
do ?
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Sort and Export
Fields - by style, year, end type, tempo etc
Creates M3U lists for importing into schedulers or playout
programs
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Create, edit and
save BCX3 files and ButtonBox DB
Allows you to manage your BCX playout machines at the same
time - either by file or bulk-read/write
A ButtonBox DB can also be created - this saves you having to
re-cache a button. Timed at 2 seconds with my 13,000 library of
songs - normally takes about 12-15 minutes within BCX3 ;)
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Read mAirList's MMD
cue data
Need to import cue (CUE IN, RAMP1/2/3, FADEOUT and ENDTYPE) data from mAirList ? No problem!
This also means that it can process files that you have set within
mAirList and create APE file tags which StationPlaylist can read -
ideal if you use SPL Studio for automation but mAirList for
live-assist ;)
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CartChunk
[UPDATE]
My own copy of MyLibrary has a CartChunk reader - however, not
all applications use the PostTimer (cue points) settings as per
the ISO spec. PSquared seem to be the obvious culprits, and
BSI's InfoEdit reads the artist/titles but not the timing info.
In light of this, I'm not sure what the best approach is! My
instinct is to conform to the spec ;)
More details...
This "all in one"
program lets you manage audio files that have been used on
multiple playout systems. You can read a folder of audio,
defaulting to the APE/ID3 tags - bulk find Artist/Title
from the filename, place mAirList MMD cue data over the top and
then save the whole lot to either file tags, .bcx (BCX3) files
and/or CSV file.
It's been tested with
my 13,000 file library and works very well. Using / delimited
styles, you can export a particular genre/style (as well as other
properties like EndType, Opener, Style, Year etc) to a simple text
file (ie: M3U format) which you can then load into a scheduler
(such as
StationPlaylist Creator) - this
enables you to be a bit more picky about what files are contained
in your Creator Categories.
MyLibrary is
compatible with JockMaster and can be used to maintain the
database/s and/or tag audio files. It is likely that the
layout of MyLibrary will change with the development of
JockMaster.
To kick-start your library, I
have included an
MP3Tag export template which will
create a tab-delimited text file which MyLibrary can read and
populate the grid with. The tags which are output include
those used by StationPlaylist (APE):
CUE, CUE IN, INTRO, OPENER, SEGUE, SEC TONE etc.
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Download MyLibrary |
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As of
Monday 22 February,
the following downloads are available:
DLL/OCX
Libraries, Sample INI File, Sample Library File and
MP3Tag Export Template. Download and unzip into the main MyLibrary
folder.
I'll be writing a manual for it soon
;)
£10 per activation key
To discuss features,
bug reports etc
Please visit the forum.
For more information, please
contact Charlie |
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