Lang, you wrote,
>I have special sound effects management software called MTools that allows
>for a relational database using FileMaker Pro. And there's also a
>fabulous-looking piece of software for Mac called Soundminer
>(www.soundminer.com), which utilizes it's own wrapper and embeds metadata =
of
>all sorts. Of course, Soundminer files could not be edited in PEAK or othe=
r
>Mac sound editors without losing all the embedded metadata, and this
>presents a problem. It would be great to have a robust metadata field that
>survives editing, so that the source of an edited and shortened recording
>could always be simply ascertained.
>
>Do any of you have experience with these kinds of questions? Is there a
>solution for the Mac platform? If so, I would like to correspond
>individually.
I'd prefer discussion here on the list, I think this is of interest
to everyone. I use FWB Catalog ToolKit 5 to catalog files that I
archive to CD-ROM. It's fast, but the searching ignores the volume
name, which is a problem because that may contain keywords that the
file names don't, and it doesn't have any means for auditioning or
audio thumbnails. It's advertised for cataloging multi-media files
but it's really designed for images.
I hate the idea of committing all the effort to building a database
in some software that may go away. I just checked http://www.fwb.com,
and it's no longer listed as a product, so my misgivings are
validated. I would much prefer a standardized metadata system that
could be accessed by different software.
-Dan Dugan
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