MP3 Helper | Enterra

The application works with user music collections (MP3/ACC files).The user can select an album from tree-view and a search for images matching with this album that is displayed in the browser window. After that the user can save the any image as the album cover art. The user can select a song from tree-view and search for lyrics matching with this song that is displayed in the browser window. After that the user can save any text as the song lyrics.

Features

Load music collection from any folder
Read MP3/ACC metadata (artist, album, title, cover art & lyrics) from the files
Search for the album cover art in the Internet
Search for the song lyrics in the Internet
Write MP3/ACC metadata (cover art & lyrics) into the files
Search by keyword or other criteria in the music collection
Get suggestions from the statistic server (http://mp3helper.com)
Save selected URLs to the statistic server
Statistic server administration
Blacklist of domains (for search and suggestions) on the statistic server
Summary reports on the statistic server
Purchase the application by eSellerate
Trial mode (allows only 50 changes)
iTunes notification about changed files

Architecture

The software is a desktop .NET application with a local database (SQLite) and WPF user interface. The application communicates with a statistic server (PHP + MySQL) and requests from it the suggestions for a selected album or song.

Technologies

- .NET 3.0 (WPF), C#
- Local database SQLite 3 (ADO.NET provider http://sourceforge.net/projects/sqlite-dotnet2
- Statistic server PHP
- Global database (on the statistic server) MySQL
- Communication with server by XML-RPC (http://www.xml-rpc.net)
- MP3/ACC metadata reading & writing by TagLib Sharp (http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/TagLib_Sharp)
- Integration iTunes (notification about changed files) by its COM
- Integration with eSellerate payment & licensing system by its COM

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