qemm: Quick Expert MP3 Manager

qemm site @ sourceforge.net

What

qemm is a command line mp3 manager with integrations into your mp3 player using off the shelf plugins. The abilities to create playlists, virtual CDs, and anything based on your mp3 collection is limitless. Some neet stuff is already here. I'd be interested in what features people would like.

features

Why

qemm was born after I got an MP3 CD player in my car and I needed a good way to automatically make CDs for it.

Other things that finally convinced me to create this:

Screen Shots

These basically show the usefullness of qemm.

Download

Get it from sourceforge.net

Support

Join the mailing list!

Installation

Easy installation. The outline is this: download the .pl and .sql files, import the .sql into mysql, edit the config lines in the qemm.pl file, and load your mp3 collection into your new database using qemm.pl.

  1. Create your qemm database in mysql:
    > mysqladmin -u root -p create qemm
  2. Now import the .sql file into mysql
    > mysql –v –u root –p qemm < qemm.sql
  3. vi/emacs qemm.pl and edit the config lines.

User Guide/Commands

qemm.pl loaddb

Load your mp3 collection into the database

qemm.pl resync

If you have renamed or moved any files, run this and the database will sync with your mp3s. Also, run this before you add mp3s with loaddb if you have made any changes to your filenames/structure.

qemm.pl playlists

Create auto playlists

qemm.pl vcd

Create a 700 MB virtual CD image of your newest MP3s, arranged by genre (using directories). This image can then be put on CD and put in your car. You can modify this to create a virtual CD based on any criteria (ie, CD size, artist, album, etc), but this is the default.

qemm pl cs

display information about the currently playing song.

qemm.pl cs rating <1-5>

Set the rating to the current playing song to x

qemm.pl cs delete

Delete current playing song. Actually the file isn’t deleted. It is moved to tmp. Any self respecting admin has something managing /tmp :)

qemm.pl daemon

This runs qemm.pl as a daemon to integrate Windows and Unix media players into your setup/database. Most any mp3 player should integrate.

Jump on the mailing list to get this working. You’ll most likely need a plugin for your windows/unix mp3 player.