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[Ian]

If u've seen the suggestions area, we're looking to do a massive database of all the trance tunes we can get, with labels and years too.

What I need from all of you is for you to take ur winamp playlist and save it as html file with the whole list, then please DON'T POST IT HERE, but E-mail it to me -
EDIT- PLZ MAIL LISTS TO eidurfan@btinternet.com please
I'll sort it out, and I'll need 2 or 3 people to help with diff bits, basically a-g could be me ... and the rest of the alphabet taken afterwards. so if ur interested, post here. and we'll sort out what we can, then we'll work out the other details like years etc, but for now lets get as many tunes as we can, remixes included, and try to make this the most concise database of trance online, if it works we can do house/hardhouse/ambient/anything like that if ppl into that wanna do it now tho feel free, just let us know. it'll take time tho, so ppl be patient, and lets hope its fun for forum members.

[Finne]

I'll email my list to you. It's not very big though.

[Mathew]

God... good job I'm off, cuz i have over a hundred cds full of mp3s !! hehe - i'll get to work tomorrow !!

[DJ Charlie]

Why you want to do that ???
if its to create a new sharing group like BMI, SND and all those...
then its a good idea... But we'll need a HUGE harddrive to store them all and at least a T1 connection for transfering...
but if its only to see what year a specific track was released.. then its no use

so i'm don'T know really what you are planning to do.. please tell me some about that...

[Ian]

no mate, this has nothing to do with hosting tunes, it's to get tunes and remixes then we can add to what we've got, and make a database of as many tunes as possible for ppl to browse, find all the tune say vincent de moor has done in one click, aliases & all

[Stream]

This will be a supplement to all the discographies you find in our artist-profiles section....with many more artists than we are able to write a full profile about.

Remember to include all those tracks allready in our discographies, ferrycorstenfan

[Ian]

Will do Be nice for some more regular visitors to also help sort, If your interested in helping, just say 'Aye' and then we'll all e-mail or meet in chat or something or messenger for a convo on it @ sometime where we can all discuss in real time, and see what ideas we get, and who's willing to take on what

So Patience plz ppl, it could take a month or 2 to perfect, but in time Hopefully It'll be a great source to come to

[Finne]

[Dj Imy]

will do ferrycorstenfan....you can count on us

[Dj Imy]

who came up this idea, cos its bloody good....credit to whoever thought it up

keep up the good work lads

[((-&E-))]

fcuk me ian... (not literaly tho).. u have a job on your hands here hehe..

ill send u my winamp list tomorow... i got about 800 tunes i think.. not much .. but i also have a shite load of CD's too

u say u want help on letters of the alphabet.. well.. if u dont mind id like the letter 'Z' hehe.. .. seriously tho.. if u do want any help give me a shout.. u know where to find me...

[TranceSeeker]

[timegateuk]

I currently have 532 of the best tunes known to me and its still growing. Ill send em right over.

[Tim]

id like to help too, but im busy with other stuff for ivibes....but i think you guys can do it alone :)

[Mathew]

I'm behind u guys all of the way.... in the way that din't sound dirty and perverted that is, i'm on my way to doing the list... got through about 100 so far... only millions and millions to go

[Ami]

a good idea, i'll compile my playlist shortly after ive finished this post , if it works out the way ferrycorstenfan is planing it to be, it should be a nice resource!

just one thing, i've had few ppl on msn messenger, asking me how to do a winamp html exported playlisting over the past few days, even before this thread was started, and just in case there are any of you that dont know how to do one yet, i'll post instructions here on how to do one



How to make a HTML generated winamp playlist


1) Firstly if your using any winamp skins, its gonna be helpful to change back to the base skin, by pressing Alt-S together, and selecting Base skin in the skin chooser window, as often the playlist option buttons, can be masked by a skin making, the task a little bit more difficult

2) There should have a playlist editor window,open underneath the equalizer window, in winamp, if it isn't there press Alt-E to open it

3) you now need to add music files to the playlist window, theres 2 main ways to do it, by dragging the music files from a window, or windows explorer pane to the playlist window, or by using winamp playlist itself to select the music files

4)To use winamp to add music files you, need to press that grey ADD button at the bottom of the winamp playlist window, a small menu should appear, if you press the Add files button, a explorer file selection pane should open and you can browse and add invidual/multiple selceted music files, or by using the Add dir button instead you can add directories contain music files that you want to appear in the winamp playlist window

5)once you've added all the music files off your Hard Drives /CD's, and there all present in the winamp playlist window, press the 3 grey button SEL at the bottom of winamp playlist, and chose sel all, you should've have selected all the files in the winamp playlist

6)after thats been done, press the fourth gray button MISC and select Sort list, and then "Sort list by Title" should sort out the list to make it easier to work with

7)time to make the html playlist, press the misc button, then the misc options , and goto generate HTML playlist , or press Crtl-Alt-G togther and you should get an internet explorer window with the playlist generated

where it says right click here to save, in the html playlist, right click on the link and choose save target as, and pick a file name/directory to save the playlist to and your dun

9) now you just need to email it to ferrycorstenfan at the email given in the first post

[Ian]

Great Work so far, and thanks to tranceseeker & Timegateuk for sending over their lists, plus FJBR who I spoke to last night about it.

Andy I'll take up ur offer, and if ne1 else wants to, let me know, and as soon as we've got the lists in, I'll split it into however many bits we need, and we can get going, removing duplicates etc.... Hopefully I'll be producing a database later on Access 97 (Yes im on old software ) unless everyone else is on something newer, where I'll get hold of it myself, and make a template, so if poss you can all open it up, and input ur data, it could take a while, and im unsure whether to keep some of the older stuff like 2 unlimited *looks @ tranceseeker* in for now, but we'll soon know, depends how many tunes we're working with.

Keep the lists coming in though, and Tim, if u got a winamp list u could spend a couple of minutes doing & sending, that'd be great, especially with your love of progressive, we might get some more of the stuff in there since lists from me & andy and a few others may be mainly uplifting or harder trance

[Ian]

too add to my last post... credit for thoughts imy.... go here http://www.ivibes.nu/board/viewtopic.php?t=2327

What I'd like to be able to do is make a search facility for it, tho I know no programming, so if ne1 could maybe help, so for example u can find every tune from 1997, or any Svenson & Gielen Remix, or any tune from 1999 that's by System F, so ppl can easily narrow down the searches, quickly and accurately, there's gonna be a hell of a lot of tunes in it, so expecting someone to find something from that much will be asking too much for some. Firstly We'll get the tunes though, then we'll worry about years and labels after, cos we can easily add those as we go.

And Andy, as u usually say.... yes I'm up rather early, amazing what u do when u got a lil pup who decides it's morning, which technically it is, but in my books shouldn't start till 11am-ish

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[Vestan_Pance]

Is it any good as a .txt file?? I've got over 4500 tracks listed (there are some house/techno included as well)

[Mathew]

thats how i'm doing it Vestan_Pance, cuz i aint got all my mp3s on the pc to add to a playlist...

[TranceSeeker]

hey that 2unlimited track is the yves deruyter remix! hahaha
Ive been collecting a very long time now, so there are some very old things in it

[Ian]

Don't give me the death sentance for this, but I used to worship them when I was about 10 I'm including all my cds and the very first one is Baby D - Let me be your fantasy so that may show my age
As for Vestax, sure Anything that's sent will help, it's all gonna make one long txt file anyway once I've sorted it all out.

So far the list of official helpers is ...
Me
Ami
Andy (Well u kinda offered so I'm accepting )
so if u wanna be listed here, we need maybe another 2-4 people to help with different things, and for everyone whos sending/sent their lists to me, thanks for your help Might bring everyone together in the forum to be part of this

[Tim]

if u got a long list, and it's not on order from a->z, then that's no problem

if u have exel, paste it in there, and then press the a->z button....

[Ian]

cool, thanks for the tip, I think it's still gonna need the numbers cos of sorting it, I'm gonna work out the database soon, but it's gonne be something like this

Artist .... Title .......... Remixes ............. Year ...... Label.....

[Mathew]

simple and yet the most effective. well done ferrycorstenfan

[((-&E-))]

erm.. when we give u our lists are we suppose to have year and record label in them ??

cos.. i have no idea for sooo many of the tunes i have

[Ian]

No Andy, basically I'll be splitting the list up, and if i send out a copy of the database, then if u can input, full details might not be known for a start, but we can work on them later I'll sort the lists, and once we got the final no. of ppl whos involved in it, I'll split the list and then if poss if u can input it into the d-base, if u know label/year then all well & good, but they will come in time, Rome wasn't built in a day

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[Ami]

ferrycorstenfan wrote