Useful Thing- MPEG Audio Collection I've taken every audio CD I own and converted the music to the MP3 format. I then record as much as I can fit onto a CD and that leaves me with hours of music on one CD. Hit the shuffle button on my MP3 player and I can listen to hours of music without hearing the same song twice. However, the problem arises when I want to listen to a specific song or band. Having thousands of MP3s makes it impossible to remember which CD has which song. That's where this program is useful. MPEG Audio Collection reads the directory that you point it to and scans for MPG files. It then lists them in a collapsible tree directory that shows file details in a window to the right, similar to Windows Explorer. Each list can then be stored in MPEG Audio Collection's proprietary format or exported in a report as a text, HTML or Excel file. The report lists the song, size, playing length and several other types of information all customizable by the user. Here's what the author,Jurgen Faul, says about the program- "It's designed to organize your MPEG audio file collection. It's fast and easy to use, scans selected drives for *.mp? files, and lists them in an Explorer-style tree-view interface. Just select a file to retrieve some information about it. You can play files as well. Features: --------- - Scanning for MPEG audio files *.mp? - Supported formats: MPEG versions 1, 2 and 2.5, layer I, II and III - File info: size, length, bit rate, sample rate, mode, version, layer - Including ID3-tags - Collection, volume and folder information - Searching for name, property, ID3-tag or duplicates - Searching in collection or on a drive - Saving search results - Playing file(s) with its associated application - Creating playlists - ID3-tag editor - Support Xing VBR - Auto open last collection option - Importing from another collection (*.col, *.mac) - Support for very big collections - Updating volumes - Building diverse collection reports (*.txt, *.dif, *.html) - Multilingual interface - Printing CD-covers" The file is 523K and can be found here- http://www.jfaul.de/ Program requirements: Nothing special Ben Cooper < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > U-T archives - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ U-T website - http://www.ashlists.org/useful-things/
