About Music Magic    Program Features   How it Works   System Requirements  

Music Magic was designed to help the Professional DJ cope with his/her dynamically changing database of songs. The idea originated when I saw the effort it took for my son (a DJ) to maintain his song lists, keep backup copies and haul his heavy CD cases to a client for previewing music. As soon as he got a new CD the paper copies of his songs were obsolete.

The program stores songs in numerical order. For the seasoned DJ who prefers to store his songs by Categories (yes, I mean you Mike and Mark), the program will store songs numerically within a Category. The user defines the categories. If you prefer not to use categories, the program can accommodate that as well. Or the program will allow you to combine both practices.

Have your favorite HOT songs. The program allows the user to set songs as HOT. These can be selected or deselected at any time by the user.

Music Magic started as a MP3 database system and has grown into a CD CDA, MP3 database system.

The program does not physically have to store the songs to use most of its features.

The program stores songs in directories (CD directories) that it numbers sequentially (CD-0001). Into each CD directory, it will place up to either 74 or 80 minutes of music. This is to conform to the current commercial CD lengths. If the music is stored on the computer in these directories as MP3 files, the program can play the songs, individually or as a Playlist that will loop continuously.

 

Program Features

• Correct MP3 Tags
• Rename MP3 files
• Read data from the Internet (CDDB)
• Read data in from Professional DJ music services (TMCentury PrimeCuts and Promo Only)
• Read Data from Jewelcase programs (Roxio Cd Creator, Cdex and Nero Cover Designer)
• Sort database by CD, Artist or Song title
• Allow searching by title and/or artist or any part of
• Allow searching by Genre
• Allow searching by year or span of years
• Allow searching by song length or range of song length
• Move MP3 files
• Correct Artists names
• Print Jewelcase labels (up to 136 songs per double sided label). All Jewelcase labels have the CD number watermarked in large numbers
• Print CD labels in either the popular two CD or three CD format.
• Generate and print Playlists
• Play MP3 Playlist (MP3's must be stored by the program on the computer)
• Play individually selected songs (MP3's must be stored by the program on the computer)
• Print any part of or entire database by Artist, Song, CD Number, Genre, Length of Song, Year of Song or Category.
• Print search results of database
• Edit the database
• Generate your own Genres
• Store songs by user defined categories
• Set songs as being HOT
• Move the columns around to a format that suits the user and save that format for each of the major screens.
• Determine the BPM, Intro Time and Ending Type of individual songs, or download the information from the PromoOnly Database or the Prime Cuts Database.
• Move the columns of the Tables to display the data the way you want to.

Information the Database Stores

• CD Number
• Track Number
• Album
• Artist
• Song Title
• Length of Song
• Genre
• Year
• Category
• Hot Song
• Intro Time
• Ending (Fade, Cold etc.)
• BPM (Beats per Minute)

How The Program Works

The program is versatile enough that it can accommodate the DJ just starting out or the DJ who already has a well-established CD collection.

The program loads and tracks your CD's by a CD number. The program starts with 0001 and continues consecutively.

If you want to sort your CDs by Category the program numbers each CD in each Category numerically starting with 0001. the Jewelcase printout as well as the CD label will indicate the CD Number and Category.

If you are loading MP3 files, the program will assign a new CD number every 74 or 80 minutes of music time. The length is determined by the time you select on the MP3 Database Loading screen.

If you are loading CDA or WAV file CD's the program will assign a new CD number for every CD you load. The actual files will NOT be moved or copied.

It is NOT NECESSARY to keep the MP3 files on your computer. The computer must be allowed to copy or move these when you are loading them into the database. Once they are loaded, the files can then be erased from the database. WARNING, if you operate the program this way, make sure you have selected Copy Files to New Directory. Erased files cannot be recovered. To delete files; use the ReName MP3 Files screen (select Move and/or Modify MP3 Files from the Program Selection screen).

If you want to play the MP3 files from the Database and Playlist screen, you must let the program store the MP3 files in the CD-XXXX directories the program develops.

For people who already have a CD collection it is difficult for them to change. With the program you do NOT have to…..

The program will use the Category field to keep your CD's sorted. When loading a CD into the database, use the Category field to enter your music category. The term Category has no real meaning to the program. Every time you enter a new Category it is added to the Category list and remembered by the program. The program will still number the CD's sequentially, but within each Category. In the Database and Playlist window the Category is listed and can be used for sorting. If using MP3's the program will generate sub-directories using the category name.

The Genre list is totally editable. Can't find the Genre you want? Just type it in and the program will add it to its list.

System Requirements

Windows 98/Me/2000/NT/XP
Screen resolution of 1024 X 768
15 Inch monitor Minimum
Pentium II processor or higher
Minimum 160M Ram - 256M recommended
Keyboard, mouse
CD Drive

Disk Space
CDDB data 720 MB
Video Help Files 290 MB
Help Files 2 MB
Program 1 MB
Database (12,000 songs) approx 1 MB

Optional: Internet connection Sound Card