Intro
In my spare time (if ever) I like to program in java. I do not yet know how many things I will make or have made that other people like and would like to have.
I do not really want to make a link section here. The links I think you would like to know about are dispersed through the text. If you have comments or questions mail me.
Id3List
The first thing I will post here is a project that started out as a simple program to create playlists for xmms. I download quite a lot of music and will also often convert audio CD's to mp3 format so I can listen to lots and lots of music while working.
As my collection grew (mainly because of brag) I decided I needed a way of keeping track of all the files. Very slowly this grew into a project where I kept wanting to do more and more.

Currently the program does the following:

  • Display all found mp3's in a virtual tree sorted on artist and album
  • Write an html file for all the mp3's found sorted on artist and album. (menu choice)
  • add another directory as base where to search from. (menu choice)
  • by right clicking on an artist name or an album, it will prompt for the name of a playlist file (make it end on m3u).
  • sort the mp's into seperate directories (named disc-1, disc-2 and so on) whereby each directory will contain directories named for the albums found and the directories will not exceed a certain size. The place where the directories will be created, the size they may become and wether to delete the original file can all be selected in a dialog. Each 'disc' directory will also contain an html file with the contents. (menu choice)
What is does not do (yet)
  • Create one gigantic playfile for all mp3's found.
  • Write playlist for all artists found
  • Write playlist for all albums found
  • make coffee
  • Play the files. There are some really nice opensource java mp3 players around. So I am thinking about it.

Here is a screenshot of Id3List in action

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The look and feel that you see is the kunstoff look and feel from Incors.org. They have created it and made it available to the public. If you are a java programmer and you would like to find some nice different look and feel's for your programs, then check out the javootoo website.

The jar file can be found here (you will probably need to 'shift-click' on it to download). It is an executable jarfile. so windoze users will only have to click on it. Other Os's can run it as java -jar id3list.jar. You need a javaTM 1.3 compliant runtime environment. You can find this here

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