More DJ Business Stuff
Jeff,
Thanks for the info on Joe. I’ve been in contact with him.
I did approximately 10 gigs last year. None this year yet. However, some class reunions are coming up this summer that I might be playing for.
This area is kind of rural. So business is somewhat hard to come by. But word-of-mouth is getting around about me. I have a birthday party scheduled already for next January. Hopefully, things will pick up a little.
On the indexing: Yes, it’s really fast. But the Microsoft indexing service has some hitches. You have to tell it how to search files of particular types (It does not understand Id3 tags by default). You do that by writing a DLL that utilizes Microsoft’s Ifilter interface. I got lucky and found a DLL on the net written by someone else, that understands the basic Id3 frames (artist, song title, year, and genre). However, I’d like to be able to search by peak chart position, weeks on the chart, length, and beats per minute. This DLL doesn’t understand those fields, and so even if you put them in the ID3 tags, they will not be indexed. So, to write the DLL, I’d need to get a compiler and an MS SDK. Darn, I thought I was out of this software development business. 
Anyway, instead of doing that, I’m playing with writing an Access DB program to replace the MS indexing service. That way, I could easily add more fields to searches without worrying about DLLs. I have all the tables designed. Now I’m working on developing the queries and importation programs to get the data into Access. Hopefully, I’ll have something interesting on this front later this year.
Well, take care. Don’t know when (or if) I’ll ever get to Dayton again. But if I do, I’ll definitely look you up.
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Catch you later,
Tom Hesley