CatalogedMedia Project Description

Cataloged Media is a suite of tools designed to build a sorted list of media files (MP3,WMA) and display them in a sorted categorized form designed for remote input for use with a 10ft GUI.

Todd Clauson is a software engineer at Intel Corp. Todd graduated in 1999 from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Where he moved to work with a data recovery company in MN. From there he moved to work for Intel in May 2000. Todd is active in code optimization for Intel and ISVs. In his spare time Todd enjoys riding his Harley, working on his home theater computer, and writing code.

CatalogDir began as a directory parser which builds a printable html file. The intent of this application was to generate an HTML with sorted data from single or multiple directories. The program soon changed into a directory parser and WMA/MP3 tag reader which generates a list of MP3/WMAs with data obtained from the file tags.

      Input file types to categorize which are comma delimited

      Input directories to search which are comma delimited

      Output directory of the HTML file. The music file generated is stored in the application path.

      Parse Depth is the depth in which the application will look.

      Command line option exists which allows the program to run with the last input settings and launches the CatalogForm in one run. Useful for updating the MP3/WMA file

      Show file shows the HTML page which is generated

      Launch form launches the CatalogForm application

      Print file prints the HTML file generated without opening the file

      Build will build the file. If the file types are WMA or MP3 or both the additional file is generated otherwise only the html file is built.

Screen Shot of Catalog Dir directory parser/mp3-wma tag reader

      Sorting based on Album, Artist, Title, and Genre

      Random play

      Clicking on Random adds files based on sorted options

      Modes:

      Title selected adds all titles

      Genre selected adds titles based on the Genre

      Artist selected adds the titles to the list based on which artist is in the top left button

      Album selected adds the artist to the list based on which artist is in the top left button

    Song queuing

    While randomly playing clicking on additional selections like different artists or albums will add those to the random play queue

     Single Play

    Click on a title based on the buttons will play that title.

    If you click while in random mode the song is played then the random list is resumed after song has ended. This may be changed to add that song to the random queue in a later version.

      Keys 1 – 9

      These keys are mapped to three letters of the alphabet. If key one is pressed once it will show titles which start with ‘a’, twice ‘b’, three times ‘c’, and a fourth time repeats ‘a’. The same for the rest of the keys to ‘z’

      Key 0

      Resets the display to show all titles

      Arrow key mapping

      The arrow keys allow for movement around the application. Arrow down on the last three buttons scrolls the song titles down. Arrow up on the first three buttons scrolls the song titles up.

      OK(on remote)/Enter “clicks” the highlighted selection

Screen Shot of CatalogForm 10ft. GUI and player

Screen Shot of CatalogForm 10ft. GUI and player

Screen Shot of CatalogForm 10ft. GUI and player

TagReader is a test application which allows you to view the data created by CatalogDir for MP3/WMA files. Opens tagfile.lst and scrolls through.

Screen Shot of mp3-wma tag reader