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- !Help file for Music Base by Chris Davis
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- Purpose:
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- Music Base is my attempt at a music database (note: NOT a CD database). I
- have seen many music database's for the Arc. However, none of them were very
- flexible in what they stored about the CD's (some just stored a set number of
- tracks per CD, some just stored only basic information about a paticular CD).
-
- I do have quite a lot of CD's and I felt that if I was to spend a lot of time
- putting them all into a database I would rather put them into one that could
- at least properly store all the information about the CD. At the time though,
- I didn't know much about programming (so what's new?? :-) ). Now that I have
- a bit more expertise in this area I figured I should write my own database
- that would do everything I wanted it to (well..most things at any rate).
-
- However, I ended up writing this instead.. but it's the next best thing. :-)
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- Features:
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- Music Base will hold different 'entries' in it's database. An entry is a
- complete CD/Tape item (could be an album/single/double album/triple
- album??/etc.). Within an item are several parts. There will be 1 part to most
- entries but double albums will have 2, triple will have 3, etc. Within each
- part are the tracks!
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- * Music Base can store up to 64 tracks per part.
- * Music Base can handle double sided media (tapes,etc.)
- * Music Base can be used in conjunction with (specially written) CD players
- (for CD-ROM drives)
- * Music Base will allow a seperate artist for each track to be stored (for
- compilation albums, etc.)
-
- Problems/Future Improvements:
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- - No error handling
- - Messy icon arrangements
- - May be a bit memory thirsty
- - Low on useful features:
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- - No searches
- - No sorting
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- If there is enough feedback I will probably put these features in pretty
- soon. Otherwise I'll just do it when I feel like it.. :-)..but it will get
- done..
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- Credits:
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- Main application by Chris Davis. Icon Sprites by Alex Howarth.
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- Source code written using Zap
- Assembled by BAX/BBC BASIC V 1.05
- Templates designed using !TemplEd
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- License:
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- This software is Freeware. You may copy it freely as long as it is not sold
- for a profit and all files are passed on, unaltered.
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- Contacting me:
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- Address mail to Chris Davis..
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- e-mail address's..
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- Internet : christsi@central.susx.ac.uk
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