I have written a web based management tool, written in PHP, to handle big MP3 collections. It current it handles about 100GB & I have run it on Linux & Windows systems.
The main cataloging script behind it recursive reads directories that u specify in the config file. From the directory structures & filenames it cleverly works out the artist name, song title, track number, album name, etc. It even works on compilation CDs. All this information is inserted into a mySQL database with artists & albums being foreign keys - so u can perform searches.
There is support for ID v1 tags but I only use this to get the length of the track.
The web front end has support for users. U log in with a username & password. This enables u to save favourite artists, songs, etc, all of which are accessible by menu bars.
Album playlists are automatically created, there is a Dynamic HTML drag & drop system to create & order your own custom playlists. U can click on songs to play them, or albums, or your custom playlists.
There are so many more features - search tool, album cover support, forums, administration area, etc. I guess I could open source it when I get the time.
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I have written a web based management tool, written in PHP, to handle big MP3 collections. It current it handles about 100GB & I have run it on Linux & Windows systems.
The main cataloging script behind it recursive reads directories that u specify in the config file. From the directory structures & filenames it cleverly works out the artist name, song title, track number, album name, etc. It even works on compilation CDs. All this information is inserted into a mySQL database with artists & albums being foreign keys - so u can perform searches.
There is support for ID v1 tags but I only use this to get the length of the track.
The web front end has support for users. U log in with a username & password. This enables u to save favourite artists, songs, etc, all of which are accessible by menu bars.
Album playlists are automatically created, there is a Dynamic HTML drag & drop system to create & order your own custom playlists. U can click on songs to play them, or albums, or your custom playlists.
There are so many more features - search tool, album cover support, forums, administration area, etc. I guess I could open source it when I get the time.