All effort this month I directed into getting more music onto my computers for the Tommy’s Tunes DJ business. I placed lots of orders for CDs in in February, 2004 from Amazon. I believe the song count in the library is now close to 27000.
Tom Hesley
Jeff,
How’s it going? What do they have you working on these days out there [at my place of ex employment]?
Things are going okay with the DJ business. 27615 songs now. I’ve begun using the Microsoft indexing service to speed searches. I have them all tagged now with id3v2 (this is what the indexing service indexes).
To put the tags in initially, I wrote some PERL scripts. It took over thirty hours to put them in each file. The lengthy time came from the fact that I coded the scripts to read through each file and calculate the duration of it by summing up the durations of each mp3 data frame. I then placed this value (in milliseconds) into the id3v2 tag (in the TLEN frame specifically). With this information immediately available, I can run quick searches by or sort songs by the length without having to parse the files on the fly. Works great.
I was wondering if you knew if Joe [...] has left [the company]? The extension I have for him is no longer in service.
Well, take care and write back soon.
Later,
Tom