Companion to Winamp - Playlist/Library Manger (Source available)

ervwalter · 8th March 2001, 00:48

Hi, all.

I'm in the midst of a personal project to develop a playlist manager companion to Winamp to make it easier for me to find the songs I want to play out of my 1700+ MP3 collection. Anyway, this may or may not be useful to other people, but I thought I'd let you all know about it anyway.

At the moment, it's called "Hey, Mr. D.J." (thanks to my wife for the goofy name

) and you can get it and it's source code at http://www.ewal.net/mp3/

I was inspired by lots of different programs, but I wanted some features from each, so I decided to start working on my own system. It gives me something fun to do in my spare time anyway. At this stage, HMDJ is kinda like WinCue (WinCue looks much cooler), but it organizes song differently and it's evolving. It loads "master playlists" and can cue up music from them but it organizes the songs by artist and album or by genre, artist, and album. You can then que up one or more songs from the display.

It's an evolving project, so over time, it'll get more things as I get more ideas and time. Current plans include a cache or database to store song information instead of reading it from the tags everytime, some more Auto DJ functions (add 74 minutes of random music to the playlist), some Online Help

, playlist/library managment (add and remove songs/directories), etc.

Well, if you are bored, take a look. If you are a developer, full source code for this and the component I wrote to parse MP3 file information is available as well, so you can take the funcionality you like and make your own project

http://www.ewal.net/mp3/

Enjoy,
Erv

Riksruin · 8th March 2001, 11:22

it sounds like a media library for winamp 2.x kool

patsouza · 2nd April 2001, 01:57

Hello
How's the plug-in going??
Tried to acces your site but server not found!
This is a great idea for a plug-in. Winamp is missing something like this.
Pat

ervwalter · 2nd April 2001, 03:24

I've made some progress on the next version, but it's been a busy time at work, so it's taking longer than I originally planned. Should have 1.3 ready in the next week or two.

http://www.ewal.net/mp3/ is working now... Might have been a temporary glitch with the server. The log files show other people hitting it currently... My advice would be to try it again. Good luck!

Erv

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ervwalter Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 2	It's coming along I've made some progress on the next version, but it's been a busy time at work, so it's taking longer than I originally planned. Should have 1.3 ready in the next week or two. http://www.ewal.net/mp3/ is working now... Might have been a temporary glitch with the server. The log files show other people hitting it currently... My advice would be to try it again. Good luck! Erv

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8th March 2001, 00:48	#1
ervwalter Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 2	Hi, all. I'm in the midst of a personal project to develop a playlist manager companion to Winamp to make it easier for me to find the songs I want to play out of my 1700+ MP3 collection. Anyway, this may or may not be useful to other people, but I thought I'd let you all know about it anyway. At the moment, it's called "Hey, Mr. D.J." (thanks to my wife for the goofy name ) and you can get it and it's source code at http://www.ewal.net/mp3/ I was inspired by lots of different programs, but I wanted some features from each, so I decided to start working on my own system. It gives me something fun to do in my spare time anyway. At this stage, HMDJ is kinda like WinCue (WinCue looks much cooler), but it organizes song differently and it's evolving. It loads "master playlists" and can cue up music from them but it organizes the songs by artist and album or by genre, artist, and album. You can then que up one or more songs from the display. It's an evolving project, so over time, it'll get more things as I get more ideas and time. Current plans include a cache or database to store song information instead of reading it from the tags everytime, some more Auto DJ functions (add 74 minutes of random music to the playlist), some Online Help , playlist/library managment (add and remove songs/directories), etc. Well, if you are bored, take a look. If you are a developer, full source code for this and the component I wrote to parse MP3 file information is available as well, so you can take the funcionality you like and make your own project http://www.ewal.net/mp3/ Enjoy, Erv

2nd April 2001, 01:57	#3
patsouza Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Australia Posts: 2	Hello How's the plug-in going?? Tried to acces your site but server not found! This is a great idea for a plug-in. Winamp is missing something like this. Pat