OK, yes, let's discuss this on the e-mail group.
I will be heading out shortly, but I'll have more to say about mTools as a
database management system for Mac. And soon I'll receive a trial copy of
Soundminer and let everyone know what I think.
I visited Doug a few weeks ago and was quite impressed with what he could d=
o
from entirely within CoolEdit Pro (now owned by Adobe and called Audition).
He could add metadata using the RIFF field, he could search and preview
recordings, and open them instantly in CoolEdit. And he could use a
spectrographic view rather than an oscillographic view, which PEAK is
confined to. I really liked Doug's setup and almost wish I had my library o=
n
a PC. With CoolEdit (Audition), I think you would have a full and useful
editing and library management package for only a few hundred dollars.
Lang
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
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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