OT: best app to preview & manage Audio clips?

ken c wrote on 11/9/2006, 3:20 PM
Hi -

Now that I've got literally thousands of royalty-free audio mp3 tracks, I need a software app that I can use to preview them all in, other than using Vegas media manager.

Any suggestions?

I really like the 'juicer' from digital juice, but it's only for their audios, and I have an extensive library of non-DJ tracks, in addition to owning all of theirs.

Any suggestions for tools to use to preview using point n click, where I can look at a couple of hundred titles at a time, to listen to them?

I've been using adobe audition w/autoplay on, surfing to various subdirectories, then previewing clips individually, but that's time consuming.

Appreciate any tips, re some kind of standalone media manager utility that I can preview samples from within easily.

I may have a video track on the timeline in Vegas, and now I want to preview hundreds of audios to go with it as background music, and I don't want to use
vegas' mm, I'd like a standalone app.. if anyone has something that comes to mind? same would be useful for royalty free video clip browsing as well for that matter..


thx,

Ken



Comments

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 11/9/2006, 9:00 PM
is there a particular reason you don't want to use Vegas MM? from what I can tell, it would be literally ideal for what you're talking about, and it's really quite powerful.

Dave
DGates wrote on 11/9/2006, 9:41 PM
I like Vegas' MM as well, especially how you can add the little tags to specify what kind of audio track it is (sound effects, production, brass, percusion, acoustic, etc). And they can be played straight from the list without adding them to the timeline or opening in another program.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 11/9/2006, 9:58 PM
not to mention you can select mass beds and label it as some custom tag like 1 min and just drag drop the 1 min tag to one of the several selected and bam, all of them are tagged. then just check and uncheck whatever you want, whenever you want it. I don't know what other softwares there are out there currently, but from what I can tell, this is such an easy one that i can't imagine needing another one for audio, video, or anything else. I'm sure someone else will disagree with me, but the MM is just so stinkin easy, I can't fathom the need for a different one. It sucked at first mind you, but after the update, it really was quite nice.

Dave
Grazie wrote on 11/10/2006, 12:46 AM
Being the self appointed "MM-Man" / Evangelist, try Media Manager NOW!! From what you are saying and me understanding you correctly, It will should do what you want - AND SOME!! I got all twisted-up trying to figure out what I COULDN'T do with it until I decided to just go ahead and throw stuff at a starting library. Well, that was it! I now make libraries delete em and restart I don;t care. THE you have tags. THEN you have searches you can recall.

If you were on SKYPE I'd give yah a session here and now!

Love it Love it . . .
Jøran Toresen wrote on 11/10/2006, 3:54 AM
Hello

Helium Music Manager 2006 is an excellent choice.

You can create several databases, for example one for your (lossless) CD collection, one for your MP3 or OGG collection and one for your collection of royalty free music. (I started with Media Monkey, but this program does not let you define several databases.)

Helium supports all major audio formats, including WMA, MP3, OGG and FLAC.

Helium has very powerful tag capabilities, so you can organize / catalogue and tag your (royalty free) music in different ways. For example, you can get Track names from the file names, you can automatically obtain tracks numbers, you can assign each track to genres, and so on.

Helium has a built in player, but also supports Winamp playback.

More info on

http://www.helium-music-manager.com/index.php


Best wishes,
Jøran Toresen
ken c wrote on 11/10/2006, 5:57 AM
thx all re MM tips, and Joran for the helium mm program, I'm downloading/trying that now..

main reasons for not using mm is I want to, as I create storyboards, have a very fast loading dedicated application, vs clicking on a little window from within vegas, for using mm.. plus I've heard all the problems some folks have had using mm..

probably I need some education on using mm effectively .. and the new V7 features for that matter... hoping to see vasst.com's new V7 DVD series soon, that'll be a big help..

let me know if any other apps besides helium, thx all.. that one looks good, just installed it, looks very good - thanks!

** can someone who's familiar with vegas media manager, please download/try helium and let us know which is better? so far I really like the helium app, as it has thumbnail images and can add title/track info for commercial mp3s if I understand it right, plus is very slick/easy to use.. unfortunately is looks like helium doesn't support .wav files, so that's out..


ken
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 11/10/2006, 1:03 PM
Ken, they already have a Media Manager DVD. It's really quite good. I have it, and highly suggest it.

Do you run a dual display or a single? I run 2 and find that If I really want to I can run the manager quite large in a window layout, and with a single layout recall, I can pop media manager out nice and large and a preview window out on the other screen so I can see what I'm working on and just do my tag selection or keyword searches or whatever.

Dave