Posted by Rob on 10/22/07 13:15

I did check them all, and they did not do what i wanted, let my
explain ... i have over 6000 songs at the moment , i cannot start
entering a key word for each one, i have no time for this, who would?
The songs are mostly in a hierarchy as follows Letter of the
alphabet, artist/group name, album, then song... this was done by
"TheGodfather" software, which it self is very nice.... as time went
on i realized that storing them like this does not really matter, so i
stopped and now i simply create new folders named new, so now i have
new 1 to 6 now with stuff in there... Now i use 3 programs to play
music, depending on what i am doing... MixMeister Pro V 6, OtsDJ, and
windows media player..

What i would like to do is categorize my music by type rather than
specific playlists, so to speak... so if i want to hear Dance music, i
can browse through a catalog i created named dance music, that i think
is dance music, obviously you cannot relay on the genre column of any
piece of software as it is never correct... So, i want to create
categories where i can put my songs, not actually MOVE the song just a
list of the songs in that catagory. I have no desire to start moving
teh actuall files around. Then from with in the in category, if i
wanted, drag and drop(a copy of the actual file) to s simple folder
to a cd or whatever. Also i would like to be able to see if a song
has been assigned a category wit in a playlist, or within a catalog
so that i do not miss anything... say i go trough all my music to make
these lists, but i missed a few songs, easy to do when you have a few
thousand songs... if was able to see in the playlist or catalog that a
song has not been assigned to a category or playlist, i can then
assign it... how else would you know if a song belongs to a certain
list or category?

I hope i made myself clearer , and i apologize if i upset anyone....

Have a great day to all..

Rob..



On Oct 21, 7:55 am, "dadiOH" <dad...@guesswhere.com> wrote:
> Rob wrote:
> > On Oct 20, 4:09 pm, "dadiOH" <dad...@guesswhere.com> wrote:
> >> Rob wrote:
> >>> Hello all, first post here so be gentle..
> >>> :)
>
> >>> I am looking for some software that can catalog my mp3s. I have
> >>> tried allot of products but cannot find one that does what i want
> >>> it to do, if anyone can offer suggestions please let me know....
> >>> my mp3 collection has just passed 7000 songs and its getting hard
> >>> to know what i have and what genre they are..
>
> >>> What i would like the software to do is..
>
> >>> * Scan my whatever dir i want for files
>
> >>> * Create a catalog of these scanned files
>
> >>> * From there i want to be able to create categories of types of
> >>> music, IE; 80 Dance, techno, dinner music, 50's rock & Roll,
> >>> Club dance, ect...
>
> >>> * I then want to be able from the catalog view to se if a song is
> >>> assigned to a category and if so which one, this is so i will
> >>> know if a song is has been categorized or not and if not i will
> >>> add it to one....
>
> >>> * Also it would be nice to be able to drag and drop the file
> >>> between lists and to other dirs or folder anywhere in my hard
> >>> disc.
>
> >>> * Be able to export these lists and or categories, to a text file
> >>> or .m3u file or whatever
>
> >>> Anyone know of something like this? free or not , at this point i
> >>> am willing to pay for software like this....
>
> >>> Thanks to all in advance..
>
> >>http://www.kaylon.com/mp3rat/
>
> >>http://www.wensoftware.com/MusicLibrary/
>
> >>http://www.mediajukebox.com/
> >> Get it athttp://mysite.verizon.net/xico
>
> > Unfortunately, non of the above mentioned programs do what i wanted,
> > drag & drop from the window to another folder or desktop
>
> You didn't state that as a "must have" but as a "it would be nice".
> Either way, it is pretty useless...one of the primary benefits of
> using an MP3 database manager is to *avoid* the necessity of
> particular files being in a particular place.
>
> The first two at least allow you to move/copy things. Via drag &
> drop? I don't recall but I suspect the first one does.
> ______________
>
> > and i can not see if a song/file belongs to a playlist....
>
> Uhhh...create a playlist catagory. Uhhh again...put in in an unused
> ID3 tag field. Uhhh last...with MP3 Rat, make them key words.
>
> Frankly, I doubt you have thoroughly explored any of the programs I
> linked.
> ______________
>
> > Anything else??
>
> Sure. Dozens. Hundreds. Nothing better. IMO, YMMV. Feel free to
> Google.
>
> --
>
> dadiOH
> ____________________________
>
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> LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
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