A Digital Music Management System
The following article was written by PCTechGuide forum member and regular contributor known as FlyFisher. He has worked in the computing and electronics industry for over 25 years and has designed hardware, written software, served as technical consultant on multi-million pound IT projects, managed product development groups, been appointed Chief Engineer and, most recently, the European Managing Director of a NASDAQ-listed technology company. His professional career involvement with multimedia technologies has fed his current interest in digital video techniques and he never ceases to be amazed that he can now edit high quality digital video on a home PC with over 1TB of HDD storage, considering his first 'PC' was an Apple II microcomputer with a compact cassette recorder for program storage because a floppy disk drive was far too expensive at the time! As well as having an enduring interest in all things technological, the author is also an active sailor, a qualified scuba diver and, of course, an avid fly-fisherman.
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This article describes a digital music management scheme (DMMS) for creating, managing and listening to a digital music library, either in the home or while travelling. The scheme has been in daily use since 2003 and has stood the test of time as being simple, reliable and cost-effective. I don't claim this to be the only or the best possible scheme, but it is offered as one that has been proven to work in practice, rather than being a theoretical description of how things could or should be done. You must decide if this scheme is appropriate for your own use.
Last Update: Thu Feb 1st 2007