MP3 Boss
MP3 Database/MP3 Manager
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MP3 Boss ReadMe
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MP3-Boss allows you to easily and fully manage your MP3 files. Includes integrated support for the WinAmp MP3 player, automatic scanning of MP3 tags (ID3v1, ID3v2, and Lyrics), extensive database functions, general MP3 management, jukebox play, and much more!
MP3 Boss -- Be the BOSS of your MP3 Files!
What does MP3 Boss DO?
MP3 Boss helps you manage and play your collection of MP3 files. Using MP3 Boss, you can:
- LIST all of your MP3 files in a single location. No longer any need to be concerned about drives or directories. Plus, you'll instantly see how many MP3 files you have, and how much space they require. Full support for CD-ROM drives and networks!
- SEARCH for a specific artist, title, album, music category (and more!)
- SORT based on artist, title, album, music category (and more!)
- EDIT information for individual MP3 files or groups of MP3 files -- finally a way to change information for an entire album with only a few clicks!
- FIND and DELETE duplicate files. MP3 Boss will perform partial comparisons, or full bit-by-bit comparisons and give you a complete report of exact (and partial) matches. You then simply click the files you want to delete! You even get a report of how many megabytes will be freed up.
- CHANGE the filename, path, or drive by simply changing the information in the database (after confirmation of course!).
- PLAY individual or groups of MP3 files -- MP3 Boss directly communicates with the WinAmp MP3 player, and includes integrated volume control, prior/next track, stop/pause/play and more. Click a couple of buttons, and you can display or edit the complete information about the file. Great mp3 jukebox player!
- CREATE reports showing selected MP3 files -- or a list of all of your MP3 files.
- RATE your MP3 files - Good/Bad/Awful. Then, just play the songs YOU want! Also, you will no longer be limited to short comments -- each MP3 file could include a 64KB comment.
- SCAN all your drives for MP3 files -- MP3 Boss will automatically create the database based on tag (ID3, Lyric, and ID3v2) and filename information. If your MP3 files are organized into well-defined directories, all of that information is easy to incorporate into the database during the scan. Plus, a single click lets you swap title and artist - for those MP3 files that didn't have any tag information, and weren't named in the most common format. Plus, MP3 Boss is really network ready -- not only does it scan network drives, it can even remap the drives for those times you want to share an MP3 database among a group of networked users.
- UPDATE your list of MP3 files -- the SCAN is smart enough to ignore any files that have already been scanned. Not only does this speed things up, it also means that you won't lose any custom comments.
- HIDE files that have glitches or those that are on removable drives. Also, you can show any files with filenames that are too long for CD-ROM -- a real lifesaver when creating an all-MP3 CD-ROM.
- ORGANIZE your files quickly and easily. With a few clicks, you can change EVERY occurrence of PFlyd, PinkFlyd, and PF to Pink Floyd. A real time-saver!
- DELETE any file. Don't like the song that is playing? Simply click FIND, and then click DELETE. No more having to first figure out the name of the file, and then hunting down that file!
- Automatically RENAME or MOVE your files based on Artist, Album Title, Category and much more -- you can completely customize everything!
- ID3v1 and ID3v2 tag editor. Edit the information in List View, and then with a single click you can update the tags for ALL of the modified files.
- MUCH MORE!
STILL TO COME
- An alarm to auto-start the MP3 player at a specified time.
- Multi-user aware -- each user can individually rate the songs.
- Support for more MP3 players (assuming there are other players beside WinAmp that allow nearly complete automation via SendMessage commands).
- Better Lyrics tag support. This version reads the complete Lyrics information, but won't write that information.
- Read ZIP files during the scan to make sure that ZIPPED MP3 files aren't missed.
- More? Tell me what you want!
INSTALLATION FROM MP3.EXE:
Simply click on the MP3.EXE application to start the automatic installation program.
Once the setup application is started, follow the on-screen instructions to install MP3 Boss.
After installation is completed, click Start, Programs, MP3Boss and then click the MP3Boss menu item to start the program.
INSTALLATION FROM CD-ROM:
To install MP3 Boss, insert the CD into your CD-ROM drive. The setup application will automatically start if your CD-ROM drive has autorun enabled. If the setup program does not automatically start, double-click on the Setup.exe file.
Once the setup application is started, follow the on-screen instructions to install MP3 Boss.
After installation is completed, click Start, Programs, MP3Boss and then click the MP3Boss menu item to start the program.
OPERATION:
When you first start MP3 Boss, it will ask you to fill in information about the location of WinAmp (the only MP3 player currently supported). Although WinAmp isn't required, being able to directly control WinAmp via the MP3 Boss interface is very convenient.
After entering the WinAmp player information (and optionally, your name/address/company information), you will be asked to perform an MP3 scan -- this scan will populate your MP3 Boss database with MP3 information. Normally you should click the 'SCAN ALL DRIVES' button, and have MP3 Boss do the work of locating all your MP3 files.
After a very quick initial scan, MP3 Boss will ask you to add comments to each drive volume that contains MP3 files -- adding a comment here is very useful for CD-ROM scans, but is not normally needed to identify local drives. After clicking the Close button, you will be shown a list of all of the directories that contain MP3 files -- and you can add Artist, Album and/or Category information for each directory. Entering information here isn't needed if all of your MP3 files have embedded tags, but this can be useful to identify Artist, Album, and Category information for any files that are missing tags (MP3 Boss reads ID3, ID3v2, and Lyrics tags). Click the Close button when finished. MP3 Boss then does a full scan of each MP3 file -- this scan includes a CRC32 calculation of a portion of the file (by default, 256KB -- about 15 seconds), so this scan can take minutes or hours if you have a lot of MP3 files (scan rates range from about 5-100songs/minute).
After the scan is complete, you can now click on MP3 list from the main switchboard to view the song database, or click on Utilities to use the utility functions (which includes duplicate checking).
Registration
MP3 Boss Registration is $15, and includes all updates through at least v1.0. If you have any comments or questions, please contact John McCaffrey at mccaffjt@newsguy.com. The latest release of MP3 Boss can be found at MP3 Boss Home.
 Send questions or comments to: mccaffjt@newsguy.com
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