+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Music Library | | | | Copyright © 1999-2002 WenSoftware. All rights reserved. | | | | Version 1.8.685, April 12, 2002 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ This software is distributed as shareware. This means you can try this software to find out whether it provides what you need before you pay for it. There are no limits nor is crippled in any way within the 30 days of first installation. It is a copyrighted software program protected by U.S., European and international copyright laws. If you use this software for more than 30 days you must purchase a registration key in order to continue use it. Contents 1. Introduction 2. Features 3. Installation and System Requirement 3. Quick Start 4. How to order 5. Bug Report 6. Contact Information 7. Version History 8. Disclaimer 9. About CDDB [Introduction] Music Library - Manage your music collection has never been so easy! Music Library is a program can help you manage and organize you music collections such as MP3s, audio CDs or tapes, etc. Music library is not just another playlister. It's actually multiple programs in one. For MP3s, it's a mp3 file explorer, a mass rename utility, a mass ID3 tag editor, an audio CD composer, a Winamp front end, a playlist maker, a cover image viewer and a professional report creator. You will find it has almost all features in other popular programs. That's not all, Music Library allows you to catalog any other music collection you have, such as audio CDs, tapes. Music Library is a CDDB-Enabled software, you can download CD in formation such as artist, title, album, track from their huge database. There is even more. Music Library comes with a cool stand alone CD Player! Associate it with you database, insert a disc, it will detect and display what you are listening to automatically! Track every single piece of music you have with one database! With it's powerful features, manage your music collection has never been easier. [Features] Some of the key features: 1) Manage ALL your music with one database! - Music Library is the only full-featured MP3 and CD collection manager on the market. It can catalog any file or media formats, such as MP3s or audio CDs, cassettes, vinyl... 2) MS Access database format - It's the most popular database format. Offers you an alternative way to edit your database. 3) User-friendly Explorer-style interface - Music Library displays file folders just like the explorer, except it only shows the folders that contain MP3 files You can also sort and view entries by albums, artists, year and genres in any combination. It also allows you to create your own sort and select only the columns you want to display. 4) Powerful search functions - " Quick search" allows you to search a single field without opening the search window. "Simple search" allows you to search multiple fields with multiple keywords or any criteria. "Global search" allows you to search both MP3 and record collections. "Advanced search" can help you to create and save complex queries. SQL allows you to search literally anything! 5) Extensive classical music collection support - Music Library offers many classical fields in audio database, such as composer, conductor, orchestras. 6) Flexible playlist generator - Creates playlists for MP3s or audio tracks. 7) Export - Music Library can export your database to Excel and ASCII text files. 8) Import - Music Library can import various database formats, MP3 or audio. 9) Text-based CDDB search! - Music Library offers you an unique feature - "CDDB Lookup". You can get ID3 tag and album information typing-free without the CDs! 10) Web search functions - With the web search function, you can get cover images and album information from several popular websites on the internet. 11) Smart file management! - It can automatically move hundreds of files to their designated folders base on ID3 tags. It creates the folders using the ID3 tags with a format you selected. All you need to do is select a parent folder... 12) One-click update - Why click through each folder to find your MP3s? Let the program find them for you. Music Library can scan all your hard drives and network drives with a mouse click. It creates an instant "MP3 image" - your database. 13) An unique way to catalog CDRs - All CDRs go under the CD drive as individual discs with distinctive labels at your choice. The original folder structure is preserved. You can browse them just like they are in your CD drive. 14) SQL support - Music Library is the only music database program that allows you to manage your database with SQL! With SQL, you can make mass changes or create complex queries to select records. Even Visual Basic functions are supported. 15) Associate MP3 to CD tracks - You can attach media files to audio tracks so you can listen to them without the CD! 16) Audio Composer - Allows you to compose audio CD from MP3s. 17) Support all popular industry standards - Music Library supports mpeg 1.0, mpeg 2.0, Xing VBR. It can read/write ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags. 18) BATCH RENAMING AND TAGGING! - Music Library's "Tag and Rename Utility" can get ID3 tag info from folders and filenames or vise versa - rename files with ID3 tags, you can even add bitrate (or any comments) to the filenames. It allows you to create and save "Tag to Name" or "Name to Tag" templates. 19) Drag and drop to update Tags - Hate typing? We do too. With Music Library, you can update ID3 tags simply by dropping files on the folders... 20) OLE drag and drop operation - Within the program or between applications (Explorer, your player...). 21) Explorer-free file operations - Music Library supports almost all file operations that windows explorer does. Move, copy, delete, rename files or folders can be as easy as drag and drop... 22) Super fast duplicates finding - Music Library can determine duplicates by comparing filename, file size or ID3 tags... 23) CDDB support! - Retrieve/submit disc information from/to CDDB2 database. Offers a full auto mode and a batch mode. 24) Supports removable disks - such as CDR, tape drive and Zip disk. 25) Professional style report generator - Music Library can generate reports in ASCII text and HTML formats. Multiple, linked pages for long HTML reports. ASCII sample here and HTML sample here 26) Cover art, lyrics, track rating, play counter, mood, tempo, occasion, custom fields and more... 27) Color-coded file status display - File status is color-coded in the main file list, you always know whether the file is available or on CD. 28) External MP3 player support - Music Library comes with an Internal MP3 player. It's also a full-featured Winamp front-end control. You can also use any other players as long as they support ".mp3" and ".m3u". 29) Library features for record collectors - Such as loan tracking, insurance, location, reference No, cost, value ... 30) External CD player - It can display detail track info, lyrics, cover image and ratings... [Installation and System Requirement] To install Music Library you must uninstall any previous version on your computer, then unzip "mlsetup.zip" file to a temp directory. Then run "Setup.exe" and follow instructions. To uninstall Music Library, go to Windows' Control Panel, select Add/Remove Programs. Select Music Library and follow instructions. Or from the Start menu, select Start -> Music Library -> Uninstall Music Library. [System Requirement] Operating system: Win95/Win98/NT/2000/XP CPU: Pentium or better Memory: 32 MB recommended. Hard drive: 30 MB for program files and database. Screen Resolution: 800X600, high color or better. Other: Modem, sound card. [How to order] Online registration service available on our website. Please follow the link below for details: http://www.wensoftware.com/MusicLibrary/order.html [Bug Report] If you discover bugs, please send bug report to support@wensoftware.com Suggestions, criticisms and bug reports are always welcome. When submit bug reports, please at least include the following information: System configuration (CPU, RAM, CD ROM, etc.). Operating system (win98, NT, etc.). Detail description of what happened. Please include as much info as possible to help us to reproduce the problem. If we can not reproduce the problem, we can't help you. [Contact Information] Visit our web site at: http://www.wensoftware.com or send email to support@wensoftware.com [Version History] Please see the "History.txt" for details. Version 1.8.685 (04/12/2002) Version 1.8.682 (04/09/2002) Version 1.7.662 (03/27/2002) Version 1.7.658 (03/01/2002) Version 1.7.652 (02/15/2002) Version 1.6.632 (10/17/2001) Version 1.6.630 (10/05/2001) Version 1.6.601 (7/19/2001) Version 1.5.570 (6/09/2001) Version 1.4.475 (1/25/2001) Version 1.4.472 (1/18/2001) Version 1.4.470 (1/15/2001) Version 1.4 (1/12/2001) Version 1.3 (10/01/2000) Version 1.2 (7/30/2000) Version 1.1 (5/21/2000) Version 1.0 (4/11/2000) [Disclaimer] THIS SOFTWARE AND DOCUMENTATION ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES AS TO PERFORMANCE, USEFULNESS, ENTERTAINMENT VALUE OR ANY OTHER WARRANTIES WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED. NO WARRANTY OF FITNESS IS OFFERED. ALTHOUGH THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN TESTED VERY THOROUGHLY, THE USER ASSUMES ALL RISKS OF USING THE PROGRAM. THE AUTHOR ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS OF DATA, PHYSICAL DAMAGE TO EQUIPMENT OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE THAT MAY OR MAY NOT OCCUR DURING THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM. THERE IS NO REFUND ON SHAREWARE PRODUCTS. [About CDDB] CD-related data through the Internet from the CDDB Music CD Database, Copyright 1999, 2000 CDDB, Inc. CDDB Client Software, Copyright 1999, 2000 CDDB, Inc. CDDB-Enabled, CDDB, CDDB2 and the CDDB Logo are trademarks of CDDB, Inc. Disc Recognition Service and DRS are service marks of CDDB, Inc.