Why it is installed to root, not to program files folder?

Adjan  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+67)

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Adjan

You can specify whatever folder you like during installation

Eugene  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+51)

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This program says that it requires reboot after download but I was able to use it and register it w/out reboot.

The app did not discriminate my music from my movies. I found the interface complicated compared to similar apps.

Either this company doesn't know there are MANY freeware apps that does the same and more or they are counting on people not knowing about the freeware options. Just to name a few:
- MediaMonkey
- Jangle (formerly Teen Spirit)
- aTunes

Damon  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+44)

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Last time I tried this, the program did a lot of things "automatically".

I depend heavily on my mp3-tags. When I tried to use this program last time, I selected "update" and that is just what the program did. It "updated" all the selected files (2 albums), and told me this was 5 different albums by 3 different artists. No option to "update or discard changes". Is this improved in this version?

My personal preference regarding mp3s:
Gracenote for updating tags (through Winamp (free), www.winamp.com the only player I have found that gives me CONTROL of my +100' songs). Select files, select "update tags", and see WHAT changes the program suggests to your mp3s. You know what album you are trying to tag, and if gracenote does not agree with you about what album you are working on, just dont press the update-button.

Mp3tag (free) (http://www.mp3tag.de/en/) for file-renaming, adding covers (covers added IN the file, not just in the album folder), batch-renaming of album/artist/genre/whatever.

My way of working: I open the ripped CD in Winamp and update the tags from the net (gracenote), if gracenote agrees with me on what CD I am working on. This gives me additional information about album/album artist etc.

Then I use MP3tag to correct the filename, to add comments, to add cover etc.

Then I put the album on my music-disk, organized in folders from A to Z, with each artist/band having its own folder, and each of their CD's having their own folder sorted by year and title.

Then I just add the new folder(s) in Winamps database, and my whole music collection is searchable and sortable by year/album/artist/genre/comments/rating/whatever.

The only thing this giveaway has that my system does not have is lyrics, but there are Winamp-plugins that handle this (I really don't care, I sing along based on what I THINK the song is about, and dare anyone to complain). The artist biography is automatically available if Winamp is connected to the net (not downloadable, but there are probably plugins for that as well)

So, I'll pass on this one, bearing in mind the recent spotify-error where all users own files were AUTOMATICALLY updated and retagged. To little control, having spent way to much time arranging my music to have it "automatically" readjusted.

spredo  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+29)

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AllMySongs Database is IMHO a somewhat high impact, low return Visual Basic app, that ties into .NET, & lacks features like downloading info based on a scanned CD case/insert bar code. Plugging "music catalog software" into Google gets 79 mill+ results, "music database software" = almost 49 mill, & "music database freeware" 5 mill+ -- IOW there's little reason not to be choosy when it comes to software you might be spending a lot of time with. Or you might take advantage of a private, on-line storage locker [mp3tunes.com], where you store a copy [or partial copy] of your collection that you can access with any connected device, anywhere, maybe taking away the need to have everything on your hard drive(s) along with the database / cataloging software to keep track of it?

Installation adds the program's folder [60 files, 10 folders @ ~5 MB], "1.bmp" to the C: drive [root folder], *maybe* 10 VB-related files to Windows system folder [mileage may vary depending on what's already installed], 1 uninstall file in 1 folder added to C:\Windows, a setup log to C:\Windows, I counted 26 files added in multiple folders to C:\Windows\assembly [again mileage may vary depending on what's already installed], & finally Start Menu shortcuts. Registry adds recorded = 2600, changes recorded = 266. Visual Basic itself is older, VB version 5 is older still, & several of the files added to the system folder date back to the late '90s... I'd be surprised if some people didn't experience conflicts &/or problems.

mike  –  14 years ago  –  Ritieni questo commento utile? sì | no (+27)

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