Musicnizer is a music organizer that allows you to catalog your music collection. It offers plenty of options to keep your music organized in a database that includes photos, biographies, and other facts about your favorite artists. Musicnizer will simplify the way you usually access and search for music and is also a tool that can come in handy for those running a small music store.
As developers say, Musicnizer works as an encyclopedia sorting music and completing the catalog with additional information so you can learn more about the artists and albums you like. To start organizing your collection, the first thing you need to do is add music to the app's database. You can do this in a variety of ways: by title (that is manually), by barcode (for which you need to use your webcam), from audio CDs in your CD drive, or by scanning files and folders in your PC. It supports MP3, APE, FLAC, OGG Vorbis, among other formats. As you add music, the app connects to the web to download information such as the album cover, descriptions, awards, artists' bios, etc. From the application settings you can specify the type of information you want to download, as well the online source (such as Last.Fm) that will provide the information. If the info is not complete, you can add and edit fields. It is also possible to search and download photos related to an artist with the program's 'image search' function, which lets you select the pictures you want to keep in your database. Of course, there are lots of other things you can do with this application, for example, create backups of your database, create and print reports and statistics, use the loan manager to keep track of loaned items, and more.
The application interface looks like a file browser and making use of its different functions could not be easier. To the left there is a navigation panel organizing your music into albums, artists, genre, according to your ratings, etc. To the right, it displays the contents selected; you can play music using the in-built audio player, rate songs and albums, add comments, etc.
So if you have a giant, messy music collection that keeps growing every day, Musicnizer can really help you sorting it out and complete it with additional information. It is easy to use and offers a bunch of interesting options.
v6.0 [Mar 15, 2013]
Musicnizer 6.0 features full Unicode support. Now information in any language can be stored within the same database and correctly displayed in any circumstances, with any system language.
[!] New user interface: Breeze.
A new user interface, Breeze, was added in Musicnizer 6.0. The interface uses a different design and offers new features, like settings for changing font size, line height, etc. You can adjust interface settings or switch between available interfaces on the "User interface" tab of the "Options" menu (F10).
[ ] An option to create a new category for your illustrated Dune music catalog displaying a list of all tracks.
If you own a Dune HD media player, you will appreciate the new feature of Musicnizer 6.0, the ability to list all tracks alphabetically. Just enable the corresponding category when you create an illustrated music catalog for your Dune.
[ ] Music Path Changer plugin was added.
If your music albums are stored as audio files, you can easily add them into the program and later play any song or complete albums directly from Musicnizer. However, if you move your music collection to another folder, links in your database need to be updated, otherwise you will not be able to play the files anymore. You can easily update all paths with the Path Changer plugin.
Music Path Changer
[ ] The Pause button was added.
The built-in player controls now include the Pause button:
Pause button
[ ] Checking for newer versions of the current scripts in the background.
Musicnizer depends on scripts to download information about albums and artists from the internet. By default, the program checked for newer versions of currently selected scripts when you started the program. Musicnizer 6.0 starts faster than previous versions, as it checks for script updates in the background.
Update scripts
[ ] It is now possible to add several pictures at once in the "Edit info" window.
In the "Edit info" window, you can add album covers, photos of artists, and other pictures to the items in your collection. Musicnizer 6.0 allows adding multiple images at the same time.
Add photos of the artist
[ ] Closing tabs with a middle button click.
Actions for the middle mouse button / wheel were added in Musicnizer 6.0. Now you can click a tab with the middle mouse button in order to close it.
Tabs in Musicnizer
[ ] Opening a new inactive tab with a middle button click on a link.
Now you can click any link with the middle mouse button to open its destination in a new inactive tab.
Open inactive tab
[ ] An option to delete thumbs from the "File" menu.
Musicnizer uses thumb images to display information faster and in better quality. However, now and then you may want to delete thumbs (remove older pictures that you no longer use etc.). In Musicnizer 6.0, you can select "File" - "Delete thumbs" to remove all thumbs.
Delete thumbs
[*] It is now possible to set just the year when a band was founded.
Previous versions of Musicnizer required a complete date including day, month, and year. While having such exact information is good, for some bands and even individuals it is not available. Musicnizer 6.0 takes this into account and allows entering just years, if no day and month information is known.
Year founded
[*] New date format to show last added and last updated albums more precisely.
Musicnizer 6.0 stores information about dates in a new format. Now time is also included into the details, making it possible to sort albums or artists added / updated on the same day in the order they were added.
[*] Updated scripts.
All available download scripts were updated for Musicnizer 6.0, adding some new features and making sure that all information would be downloaded correctly.
[-] Fixed reading tags from FLAC files.
Support for FLAC tags was improved in Musicnizer 6.0.
[-] Fixed reading WAV tags.
Musicnizer 6.0 can extract information from WAV files.
[-] The Melomania import plugin was fixed/ updated.
If you used Melomania previously and would like to move to Musicnizer, you do not need to re-enter your existing information. The Melomania import plugin will convert your Melomania database into the Musicnizer format, making sure that all data is transferred properly.
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