The player
No dlls required
Soundbase uses the Microsoft® DirectShow® architecture. DirectShow provides high-quality capture and playback of multimedia streams. It supports a wide variety of formats, including MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3), OGG Vorbis (OGG), Monkey Audio (APE), and FLAC sound files. It automatically detects and uses audio acceleration hardware when available, but also supports systems without acceleration hardware.
This subsystem, an integrated part of windows, is used by most players, but never before integrated into one simple executable. Soundbase basic installation is less then 2mb in size (5mb with the basic skins installed), but still allows soundbase to play any audio file that your windows media player plays.
Looks and feel
The default player looks like the image, but as you can see on some of the screenshots on the right, there is a player banner available (screenshot 2), and a player toolbar (screenshot 6). It allows you to tweak Soundbase looks and feel.
April 1, 2007Posted by Eric de Heer
The tag editor
Our approach
There are a lot of different approaches mp3 players take to storing album information. We tried to combine as many of the common known standards and combine them in one easy tag editor. It reads and saves the tag information from most other players like Foobar, iTunes and Winamp. So you can use Soundbase as your main editor, or as an easy addition to your favorite. It can read Ape, Flac, Ogg, Mp3 and Wma, and supports song ratings, album rating, various artist, album artist, disc and number of discs, and you can add your own groups and moods to your collection.
Internet information retrieval
Soundbase also allows for automatic information retrieval from freedb album database or any of its counterparts freedb2 or gnudb. It allows a selection of available album matches and will automatically store this information into your audio files, inclusive an analyze and automatic parsing of the ALBUM ARTIST TAG.
April 1, 2007Posted by Eric de Heer
Adding album art to directories or files
Our approach
Most players provide the ability to show albumart but none provide such an easy interface to adding album art to your directory, renaming it or adding it to the ID3 TAG in your song.
Internet information retrieval
Soundbase also allows for automatic album art retrieval from multiple locations on the web, and we will keep increasing the search capabilities. Soundbase can do so automatically, or manually by drag and drop. We hope the end result will be a beautiful thumbnail presentation of all your albums.
April 1, 2007Posted by Eric de Heer
Organize your album collection
Moving your songs
If you are struggling with your albums locations then Soundbase is for you! We created Soundbase with control over folder location in mind. You are always only two clicks away of moving your albums to a structured, template driven folder location.
Soundbase allows you to move or copy albums from its current location to locations that you can choose yourself. Just imagine all your albums being stored on album and artist name, file names automatically named to track - title. Album art will move along too, so you have not to worry if things get missing. And it enables you to keep track of duplicate albums, various artist albums, and much more...
April 1, 2007
Posted by Eric de Heer
