The fastest and easiest way to access and play your MP3 files

News

• 06/19/2005
  A new version 5.1 has been released. All String resources has been externalized to be easily translated. Locales files are located in new directory lang. [ mp3 - explorer ] is released with English and French language files. Other translations should be available soon. Old plugins are now used for skin purpose. A new "skin" directory contains now skins plugins. The Green Power skin available in the default release..
• 10/04/2004
  A new version 5.0 has succeded to the shareware version 4.3. This new version is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. The source code is available at :
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  This way of developping application should provide new evolutions to [ mp3 - explorer ]. The drawback is that some portions of old code were not compatible with the new license and had to be removed. [ mp3 - player ] using XAudio's code and Microsoft's WMA format are no longer in the softwware.

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Translations

Released : English, French

In progress (07/19/2005)

• Spanish Latinamerican - Aldo C.
• Swedish - Michael W.
• Indonesian - Udan S.
• Norwegian - Stian H.
• Vietnamese - Hung N.

Features

• Find all MP3 files on a local/network drive or at a given path
• Organize files automaticaly by artist, album, or by genre
• Can present a view of multiple drives
• Powerful ID3 tags editing : drag and drop, lookup , mass editing.
• Send your selection into the playlist via Enqueue or Play to your favorite player: WinAMP, Sonique or K-Jöfol...
• Fully customizable column display can identify Title, Album, Artist, Location, Size, Date, Genre, Comment, Time. MPEG/Layer, Bitrate, ... Frequency, Mode, File Name
• Customizable file renaming formats using up to 3 of the following: Artist, Album, Title, Genre, Date. Can even automatically correct capitalization
• Fully customizable export formats (CSV, HTML, ...)
• Playlist files management (M3U, PLS). Add, remove, sort files into the playlist. Relative or full path and URL supported.
• Xing's VBR files (Variable Bit Rate) support
• The LAB™ to give you a quicker access to your file's collection.
• Manage pictures and lyrics (using ID3v2 standard).
• Powerful multicriteria search (Title, Rating, Bitrate, has pictures, ...).
• Web integration : Html viewer, net search.
Drag and Drop actions
• Dropping your files into the right category in the Main Category Pane will automatically change the artist, the genre or the album.
• Add files into the current playlist by just dragging them into the detail pane.
• Play all selected files or add them to the playlist of your favorite player.
• Copy MP3 information from all selected files into a document or a spreadsheet.
• Copy or move all selected MP3s by dropping them into a Windows Explorer folder.
• Runs with Microsoft Windows 98/NT/2000/XP.

GPL License

[ mp3 - explorer ] uses the GNU General Public License by the Free Software Foundation and is free (as in freedom) software.
Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:

• The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
• The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
• The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Copyright (c) 1998-2005 Pierre LEVY