Your Ripped Music Collection - Automated Reporting (coming soon)

[HomerJAU]

I've recently been updating Music Media Helper's media file reporting and am now adding a new Report Tool that can create PDFs or Print your music collection with cover images:

I will also add similar reports for Music Video/Concerts, Movies and TV Series.

The reports are created by recursively scanning any number of hard drives (including NAS servers etc). For Music (audio) MMH reads file tags and/or folder/file names to gather data into a new database added in MMH 8.0.10. The upcoming reporting tool (above) reads that database.

I am looking for users to test this on their own music files/folders and provide feedback on formatting the reports etc. My plan is to include a track list. Currently the cover images need to be named 'folder.jpg' or 'cover.jpg'

Please post here and I'll PM the MMH installer (Windows Only).

THX
Garry

 

[Marplot]

How well does it handle multiple copies of the same album?
for example (not counting multi-channel)

 

[HomerJAU]

Not a problem. It separates 'albums' by folders so you'll see 1 album per folder.

It will pick up the codec by reading that from the files, for speed there is an option to just read codec from the first media file (first in file name sort order, so that should be the track 1 of the album).

It also reads track info from a CUE file. If a folder has 1 CUE and 1 media file it understands what to do. If it’s 1 cue and multiple media files it ignores the cue currently.

For the final report (print or export to PDF) you can filter the albums by any field in the grid, including partial matches (example 'contains 'MLP stereo' would create a report of only your stere albums using MLP).

If you've already separated your collection into 'stereo', 'multi-channel', 'quad' or 'Atmos' root Source folders you can simply filter by that 'Source' = 'Stereo' etc.

I may need to allow your MLP files to be seen by the app, (add the file extension to the list of extensions that it looks for).

If you don't do full tagging I may have to grab some data from your folder/files names. Should be straight forward, Hence me asking for Testers,

It does find ISO files but it only gets minimal info (gets the artist and album etc from the folder and/or file names. No codec info at this stage.

 

[Q4-Bert]

I am interested, most of my tags are in J-River / Roon, because normally would not want touch my files. Most of the multi-channel I play from ISO in JRiver, but it would be nice on the MC conversions. But I love checking out the info on the albums. For future it would be nice if information/artwork can be shared with forum members.

 

[atlantasteve]

I am interested in testing your Report Tool.

 

[jarrod2750]

I’m interested too.

 

[marpow]

I'll give it a shot Garry.
I'm wondering in my own situation.
There are some files, not many, that have Japanese writing so imbedded that even with a manual tag on the file it still shows up in Japanese.

That would be nice to correct. Any of you have that occasional problem?

 

[somethingcleveridunno]

That title scared me, thinking Windows was going to start ratting out DMCA violations on your own computer.

 

[MidiMagic]

That title scared me, thinking Windows was going to start ratting out DMCA violations on your own computer.

Me too. They said that Windows 10 would do that.

 

[HomerJAU]

I've got the tracks showing in the report now and started changes in the code to create similar reports for Concerts/Music Videos. I'll upload a beta and send links to those who asked to be included in the initial beat Testing/Feedback

 

[Bob Romano]

I've recently been updating Music Media Helper's media file reporting and am now adding a new Report Tool that can create PDFs or Print your music collection with cover images:

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I will also add similar reports for Music Video/Concerts, Movies and TV Series.

The reports are created by recursively scanning any number of hard drives (including NAS servers etc). For Music (audio) MMH reads file tags and/or folder/file names to gather data into a new database added in MMH 8.0.10. The upcoming reporting tool (above) reads that database.

I am looking for users to test this on their own music files/folders and provide feedback on formatting the reports etc. My plan is to include a track list. Currently the cover images need to be named 'folder.jpg' or 'cover.jpg'

Please post here and I'll PM the MMH installer (Windows Only).

THX
Garry

That’s awesome. I would like to try it.

 

[HomerJAU]

Thanks to those who volunteered for testing/feedback. Its probably easier if we keep the feedback here in this thread, so here's the beta link (public, so anyone trying this please provide feedback, I can only improve fix things I know about, this works great on my media files. Does it work on yours?)

Download the MMH installer with this new Reporting feature:
https://reva.blob.core.windows.net/mmh8/ReportingBeta/MMHInstaller.msi

This contains all the new code to scan your media folders and generate the reports above for Music (audio).

Start MMH and launch the 'Media File Manager' tool. This tool has been in MMH since day 1. But many changes over the years.

The two new features in recent weeks:
1. The data found in a Scan of your Media Source folders is now saved to a local database and then is reloaded next time you use the File Media Manager tool (added last week)
2. The new Report with media cover/poster art has been added in this Beta release

There are two options you should check before you do a final scan:

• Get Video & Audio Codecs (also check the option under that 'Only for first media file in folder' - this make the scan a little faster)
• Add Album tracks to Grid (this forces the Scan to look at every file in each album folder to get track names. If you don't do this Report does not contain track lists.

Feedback required:
1. Do all your albums get found by the Scan process and do they have the data you expect? If not then I'll need some info about your folder and files that are missing)
2. Is the additional info you'd like in the grid?
3. Is the additional info you'd like in the Report?
4. Can I improve the Report layout/Colors etc
5. Any Bugs?

Also, please refer to existing documentation in the PDF for existing (pre new Report) info:
Media File Manager docs on Page 73 (current docs not yet with new Report info)

Please feel free to tell me about your experiences and thoughts on any improvement.

EDIT: One additional feature I will add is adding a new checkbox column in the grid that’s editable by a user (and saves/restores from the database) to allow users to check albums, concerts, movies etc to mark as a ‘To Listen/Watch’ release. Users can then filter/sort by that and Print it. I often forget about certain albums or movies I want to play until I see them on my server…

THX
Garry