PureMp3 now with MusicBrainz queries

Posted on October 29, 2010 by MRoc

When files have at least artist and album name set, the new command may find the missing information quite well. This even works if the artist and album name miss parts thus do not exactly match the original, thx to the search engine used by the guys @ MusicBrainz. Unfortunately the query is quite slow and MusicBrainz does not allow to fire more queries than one per second. Nevertheless a great service that found its way into PureMp3. Download and more information here.

PureMp3 now with library database

Posted on October 23, 2010 by MRoc

PureMp3 version 2.0.0.0 comes with a build in library database. Just set-up your library folder in preferences and it is scanned in background for MP3 files. All files are presented in the new library tab offering a search bar for full text search. Download and more information here.

Local database interesting readings (C#)

Posted on October 23, 2010 by MRoc

MSDN on Introducing LINQ to Relational Data
Some blogs on dynamic expression API for building queries at runtime here and here
MSDN on How to: Deploy a SQL Server Compact Edition Database with an Application
Evergreen 101 LINQ Examples on MSDN

THIS IS IT: PureMp3

Posted on September 1, 2010 by MRoc

PureMp3 is a MP3 tag editor with a nice user interface, batch capabilities and fully supported undo. It solved at least my use-cases which were…

Find fine and badly tagged albums on local/network disks

Batch rename files and folders according to pattern

Batch FreeDB+Discogs tag download

Batch cover download

Batch copy fine tagged albums from local/network disks into library

Edit single tags

on gigabytes of MP3s with mainly no user interaction. Maybe it also solves your use-case. More information here.

WPF Application Localization using Dynamics (C#)

Posted on September 1, 2010 by MRoc

This was the first use-case for dynamics from C# 4.0 that I got into mind. One can bind the texts from XAML to a singleton class inherting DynamicObject that publishs the text IDs as properties. Here a label is bound to a property called ‘Ready’:

<Label
    x:Name="labelStatus"
    Content="
      {
          Binding Source={x:Static text:TextProvider.Instance},
          Path=Ready
      }" />

The TextProvider singleton inherits DynamicObject and returns a text for each requested property. As ID, the property name is taken. It actually re-directs the calls to an object which is here called LocalizationDatabase:

public class TextProvider : DynamicObject
{
    public static TextProvider Instance
    {
        get
        {
            return instance;
        }
    }

    public override bool TryGetMember(

        GetMemberBinder binder,

        out object result)
    {
        result = LocalizationDatabase.Instance.GetText(binder.Name);
        return true;
    }

    private static TextProvider instance = new TextProvider();
}