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- MP3 CD Organizer 3.51
- Copyright(c) 2002 Peter Logarn
- Release Date: 2002-11-05
-
- E-mail: logge@mp3cdorganizer.com
- Homepage: http://www.mp3cdorganizer.com
-
- Description: MP3 CD Organizer helps you to get all your mp3 files
- organized. Once the program has scanned your CD's and
- harddrive(s) you will always know where to find a song.
- It has powerful functions to search through the
- database. To assist in bringing order in folders with
- large numbers of unsorted files, Organizer has a feature
- to automatically sort the files into appropriate sub-
- folders. Organizer also frontends Winamp for easy
- playback of the songs that you have put on the playlist.
- To make your own favorite list of songs for fast
- playback later, Organizer can write playlist files,
- save and edit ID3 tags, create HTML documents with your
- lists of songs, eliminate duplicate songs and much more!
-
- Legal Rights: This program is freeware. It may be distributed freely
- as long as no content is altered.
-
- Disclaimer: You are using this software entirely at your own risk!
- This program may NOT be used to handle illegal music!
-
- Coding: Peter Logarn
- Design: Peter Logarn (Well, I'm a technologist not an artist)
- Graphic: Georgiana Gruia (My Girlfriend)
- Assistants: Berit Carlsson, Carl-Johan Sj÷berg and others.
- Beta Testers: Georgiana Gruia, Linus Magnusson,
- David TjΣllskog, Stefan Jonasson.
-
- To get online help, please visit the homepage!
-
- If you like this program or find any bugs feel free to send an e-mail.
- It's always fun to receive mail!
-
- Description of the different functions in the program:
-
- Player
- Controls - These are buttons to control Winamp.
-
- Update Winamp - Sends the songs in the playlist to Winamp.
- To overcome the problem with having songs on different
- CD's, select "copy to tempdir" in options, and the
- music on the CD's will be copied to the harddrive.
-
- Copy - Copies the songs in the playlist to a directory.
-
- New - Adds a new CD or a Directory to the database. All
- subdirectories will be scanned if selected in options.
-
- Delete - Removes a session from the database.
-
- Delete File - Deletes the currently selected file in the library.
- Use this option with caution since it will physically
- delete the mp3 file from disk.
-
- Playlist - Writes the files you have chosen to a playlist
- file, M3U. If you later double-click on this file,
- the mp3's listed in it will be played in Winamp.
-
- HTML - Creates an HTML document with the list of your files.
-
- Options - Brings up the options dialog.
-
- Random - Randomly adds songs to the library.
-
- Lyrics - Displays the lyrics for the selected song.
-
- Preview - Plays the selected song in the library.
-
- Search - Searches for the files matching your specified
- criteria. You can drag & drop information from
- 'ID3 Tags found' to these fields.
-
- Quick menu - A quick-menu will appear when clicking the right
- mouse button.
-
- Save - Saves ID3 info in the mp3 file. If the file is
- on a read-only media, the changes are made in the
- database only.
-
- Multisave - Saves the artist, album, year and genre to a
- group of songs selected in the library.
-
- Session List - Click a session in the list to display its contents
- in the library. Double-click a session to update it.
-
- Description for Options:
-
- General:
-
- Search
- subdirectories - Searches all subdirectories when adding files.
-
- Copy to
- tempdir - Copies the files to a tempdir if they are on CD's.
- Then they will be played from there.
- Case sensitive
- search - Differs between small letters, and capital letters
- in the search.
-
- Winamp:
-
- Find Winamp - Searches for Winamp on your harddrive. You can
- also choose to do this manually.
-
- Continues
- playback - The currently played song wont be interrupted
- when pressing 'Update Winamp'.
-
- Formatting:
-
- Don't use ID3
- tags - If selected, Organizer will ignore any ID3
- information stored in each mp3 file (ID3 is a
- standard of storing information about artist,
- title, album and more, in the mp3 file).
- Otherwise, ID3 tags will always be used before the
- operation 'Filename formatting'.
- Filename
- Formatting - If your files have a name convention, such as
- 'artist-title.mp3', Organizer can use
- that for displaying info about the song.
- Just type how your filenames are structured
- in the edit field.
- Ex. %1 - %2 _ %3 means your files should be
- like this: 'artist-title_album.mp3'.
-
- Use folder as - This option lets you choose if the name of the
- folder, where the file is stored, should be used
- to represent the artist, or the album, or if it
- should not be used at all.
- As with 'Filename formatting', this option will be
- overridden if there is ID3 information in the file.
-
- Library:
-
- Lets you choose which info to show in the library.
-
- Internal Player:
-
- Contains volume control and equlizer for the internal player.
-
-
- Menus:
-
- Load Playlist - Loads a playlist to the library
-
- Import - Let you import a old database or a saved playlist.
-
- Update Session - Updates a session and check if any files has been
- added/removed from the specified location.
-
- Delete Selected
- File - Removes the selected file from the harddrive.
-
- Create shortcut - Creates a shortcut on the desktop.
-
- Check for Updates - Connects to the Internet and check if there is a newer version available.
-
-
- The other functions should be obvious!
-
- Instructions for getting the program to run:
-
- Short Instructions:
-
- Simply run the installer and install the files in a folder of your choice. If you have a previuos version, you may want to keep your old
- database. You need to have the newest Mfc42.dll and ODBC support for
- MS Access installed. The last-mentioned is included in the MS Office
- 97/2000 installation and can also be downloaded freely from Microsoft.
-
- Long Instructions:
-
- This program is compiled with Visual C++ 6.0 and requires the newest
- Mfc42.dll. This file MUST be in the system in order for the program
- to work. If not found, the following error message will be returned:
- "The ORGANIZER.EXE file is linked to missing export MFC42.DLL:6880."
- The file can be downloaded from MS or from my homepage. It should
- then be placed in the windows\system directory, or in the Organizer
- folder.
-
- This program uses Winamp mp3 player, which must be present in the
- system. Winamp is shareware and can be downloaded from www.winamp.com.
- Winamp is the only player that will work.
-
- Winamp 3 requires a special plugin in order to work with Organizer.
- Information about this can be found on the homepage.
-
- In order to get MP3 CD Organizer to run properly, there are some
- things that you need to have on your computer. Since this program
- uses a MS Access 97 database, you will need to have ODBC with
- support for Access 97 databases installed. Probably, you already
- have this if you are running Office 97/2000. These drivers can also
- be downloaded from the MS site. www.microsoft.com/data/odbc
-
-
-
- The source to the id3 library used in this application can be
- downloaded from: http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/