Copyright (C) 2004 - 2006 Markus Schwab (g17m0@lycos.com) This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. --> "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> CDManager - utility to manage records and movies record, manager, CDManager, CD-Manager"> General information about the CD-Manager Introduction The main window Dialogs Introduction The CD-Manager is an utility to manage records and movies. Its features include exporting the managed media to HTML pages and importing records from songs in MP3 (having an ID3 tag) or OGG format (having comment headers). It is distributed under the GNU General Public License, which basically says like this (see the file COPYING along with this package or the GNU homepage (http://www.gnu.org) for more details): This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Main window The main window contains a notebook with three pages; one for the records, one for the movies and one for actors. Records page This page contains two list; the left one holds the stored records and their interprets (sorted by interpret; with their records sorted by name) and the right one with the songs (sorted by tracknumber). The content of the displayed values can be changed “inline” (meaning: by clicking in the column of the selected line, one wants to change. Usually this opens an entry field in which data can be entered, or a list from which the values can be selected.) If a record is selected, the right list shows its songs. Again, this list can be edited “inline”. Both lists can be sorted by its various columns (by clicking in the title). New entries can be added by selecting the appropriate entry in the Edit menu or by importing the ID3-tag from MP3- or OGG files (Menu Import from file-info in the CD menu). Entries can be searched for (in the active list) by just writing the text to find. While searching the keys Up and Down find the previous/next matching entry. Movies page This page contains the movies, sorted by director and (within director by year). As with the records, its contents can be edited “inline” (see above). New entries can be added by selecting the appropriate entry in the Edit menu. Equal to the record pages, it is possible to searched for Entries (see above). Actors page This page contains the actors, by default sorted by name. As with the records, its contents can be edited “inline” (see above). New entries can be added by selecting the appropriate entry in the Edit menu. Equal to the record pages, it is possible to searched for Entries (see above). The menu View allows to switch between showing movies for each actor or all actors of a movie. Dialogs Login This dialog is displayed by selecting Login ... from the CDs menu. It is a small window allowing to enter an user-id an (optionally) a password. This information is used to connect to the database. Import This dialog is displayed by selecting Import from file-info ... from the CDs menu. It enables to browse through the directory structure and the selection of files. All those files are — depending on the type of the file — either searched for an ID3 tag for MP3 files or for the comment-section on OGG-files, which — if found — is imported into the database. Note that this import might produce double entries, if names are differently written or they exceed the the size of the ID3 information (which is limited to 30/32 characters). Settings The Settings-Dialog is invoked with Preferences ... from the Options menu. It allows to change various aspects of the program (related to the export of the information to HTML documents and the special words (which are used for sorting)). Author Both the program and the documentation have been written by Markus Schwab. Usage The program is started without any options, like this: CDManager An overview of the available options can be displayed with CDManager --help Credits Thanks to the folks at MySQL for their great database and the mysql++ library. Markus Schwab (g17m0@lycos.com)
