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Subject: Re: Getting organised...
From: "Andy Wilson" soundraider_uk
Date: Fri Feb 29, 2008 8:05 am ((PST))
greg

some of the high-end audio editors include such audio database (actually
more cataloguing) facilities - I know that Wavelab does, for example, as
that what I use.

a


Greg Simmons wrote:
>
>
> I'm looking for a media database that will allow me to catalogue all
> of my sound recordings and their related images and so on. Over the
> past few years I have collected many recordings from Nepal, Tibet,
> India, Borneo and Australia, along with zillions of accompanying
> photos and some video footage.
>
> I'm looking for something that I can type, for example, "tibetan nuns
> chanting" and up will come all of my sound recordings of Tibetan nuns
> singing/chanting, along with any pictures/videos that I might have
> taken (or otherwise collected), and anything else related to the
> recordings. It would all be accessible from within the database
> without requiring me to delve into folders or manually launching other
> apps. So for the search example above, the sound recordings could be
> auditioned directly by clicking on them, the pictures would be
> thumbnails that could be clicked on to view full size, and so on.
>
> I realise I'd have to do much of the initial indexing, creating key
> words and so on, but that's unavoidable.
>
>  From what I can tell, this is known as Digital Asset Management (DAM).
> I have found many apps that do it, but most are either designed for
> corporate/network use (and thereby expensive, requiring dedicated
> servers and so on) or are focused almost entirely on photographic and
> video use.
>
> Does anyone here have any recommendations based on personal experience?
>
> - Greg Simmons
>
> P.S. I'm also posting this on the phonography list, sorry!
>
>


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