-Brading Software Message Board
+--Forum: Mp3/Tag Studio Suggestions
+---Topic: MP3TS improvements started by AudioAmateur
Posted by: AudioAmateur on Sep. 02 2002,21:58
I'd like to see an improved playlist generation function.
It's about a more sophisticated way to generate indexes for whole directory trees in HTML/XML language, beign able to add customized parts to the file generated...
Very useful if you have a large collection of files/albums...
Someting similar to what is done by MP3 HTML Generator(http://www.exacttrend.com/ )
MP3TS list generation works, but is not that flexible if you want to more than the generation of a single playlist in a single directory...
is something like this yet planned?
bye
AA
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Sep. 03 2002,00:42
I don't have time to evaluate that other program you linked to, but if you'll explain in more detail what you mean, and how you think it should be done, I will listen.
But you do know that Mp3/TS can generate lists for multiple subdirectories, and add HTML/XML code, and custom headers and footers, right? Exactly what is it that you want to do that can't be done in Mp3/TS?
Posted by: AudioAmateur on Sep. 03 2002,19:30
ok, I'll take time to explain better my thoughts.
from the beginning:
I have a large mp3 album collection spanned on many directories, so I thought to use a web server-like interface to navigate betwen the various directories, selecting single files or whole albums, looking at the covers, credits and whatever...
Consider this as a kind of home entertainment center experiment... (althoug I really need a tool to manage this large amount of files).
...so I started to look at the various playlist generators available on the net, and noticed that also MP3TS had a similar feature (the one you're referring to).
MP3TS "File row fomat" box permits to insert custom tags into output file so I easily generated a list of all the files with the html link etc, but its output is forced in a single (getting big) file...
The product I mentioned in the other message has a database-like feature, so it can read all data from the files in the whole directory tree, and it's able to generate a single output file (HTML or XML, or whatever... it depends on personalizations), plust it generates other index files, permitting the grouping of the files in e.g. albums, genres, year, etc.
In this way it would be very easy to automatically create a "yahoo-portal-like" interface where you can navigate between various levels of file grouping, until you find the album, or genre, or song you're looking for, and with a single click, you listen it with your favourite player.
And would be easy as well to add other elements to the page by mean of conventional-named accessory files, for covers, credits, comment, etc...
That's what made me write here.
I don't know how much of this can be implemented in MP3TS without turning it in a different product (that's not what I want), anyway I think that an inprovement in this direction could be done...
At least, expand the editing box, so you can write the customized file format on more than a row... or consider the use of template files, filled with data coming from the file tags...
hope I have been clearer this time...
thank you for reading, sorry if I annoyed or told silly things...
anyway, I still have to find a more complete, consistent and reliable program than MP3TS...
thanks, bye
AA
Posted by: Audioamateur on Sep. 03 2002,19:37
you'll have understood that english is not my mother language... I tried to be as clear as possible in explaining... be patient!
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Sep. 03 2002,21:08
As you mention yourself, those things are a bit off-track with the main idea of the Mp3/TS listmaker. It is designed to be able to create advanced lists containing rich information, so that this information can in turn be used by other programs to create the kinds of things you talk about.
And you can create multi-line entries in the lists by using the [NEWLINE] marker in the templates.
You are also welcome to elaborate on why you don't think Mp3/Tag Studio is "consistent and reliable"?
Posted by: AudioAmateur on Sep. 04 2002,01:04
my bad english again!
I meant that MP3TS *IS* consistent and reliable, and I found no other sw at his level.
bye
Posted by: Magnus Brading on Sep. 04 2002,01:18
Ok, that's more like it.
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