Soundbase 2008 02.09

Soundbase was created to fill a gap in the large amount of free and commercial mp3 players. We do not pretend to have the ultimate mp3 or audio solution, but it will most likely fit somewhere into your mp3 playing experience. As a player, as a tag editor or as an organizer. It will always give you a quick way of doing common tasks. Give it a try!
Using the windows standard

Soundbase uses the Microsoft® DirectShow® architecture. DirectShow provides high-quality capture and playback of multimedia streams. It supports a wide variety of formats, including MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3), OGG Vorbis (OGG), Monkey Audio (APE), and FLAC sound files. It automatically detects and uses audio acceleration hardware when available, but also supports systems without acceleration hardware.

You might need to read the help section on installing more sophisticated formats (ape, flac, ogg) to enable playback for those files. The help section provides you with links to free directshow filters and will give you information on how to best install the different pack.

It also offers the option to use BASS Audio audio drivers, they can be installed from inside Soundbase.
You can skin soundbase, organize your music to different locations, edit tag information, search, filter, create playlists, there is a unique history display and Soundbase doesn't use any registry entries but stores all in one ini file, it is completelly anonymous, it can run from any location with limited user access rights, and much more.

No dlls required

Soundbase uses the Microsoft® DirectShow® architecture. DirectShow provides high-quality capture and playback of multimedia streams. It supports a wide variety of formats, including MPEG Audio Layer-3 (MP3), OGG Vorbis (OGG), Monkey Audio (APE), and FLAC sound files. It automatically detects and uses audio acceleration hardware when available, but also supports systems without acceleration hardware.

This subsystem, an integrated part of windows, is used by most players, but never before integrated into one simple executable. Soundbase basic installation is less then 2mb in size (5mb with the basic skins installed), but still allows soundbase to play any audio file that your windows media player plays.

Looks and feel

The default player looks like the image, but as you can see on some of the screenshots on the right, there is a player banner available (screenshot 2), and a player toolbar (screenshot 6). It allows you to tweak Soundbase looks and feel.

Approach

There are a lot of different approaches mp3 players take to storing album information. We tried to combine as many of the common known standards and combine them in one easy tag editor. It reads and saves the tag information from most other players like Foobar, iTunes and Winamp. So you can use Soundbase as your main editor, or as an easy addition to your favorite. It can read Ape, Flac, Ogg, Mp3 and Wma, and supports song ratings, album rating, various artist, album artist, disc and number of discs, and you can add your own groups and moods to your collection.

Internet information retrieval

Soundbase also allows for automatic information retrieval from freedb album database or any of its counterparts freedb2 or gnudb. It allows a selection of available album matches and will automatically store this information into your audio files, inclusive an analyze and automatic parsing of the ALBUM ARTIST TAG.

Adding album art to directories or files

Approach

Most players provide the ability to show albumart but none provide such an easy interface to adding album art to your directory, renaming it or adding it to the ID3 TAG in your song.
Internet information retrieval

Soundbase also allows for automatic album art retrieval from multiple locations on the web, and we will keep increasing the search capabilities. Soundbase can do so automatically, or manually by drag and drop. We hope the end result will be a beautiful thumbnail presentation of all your albums.

Organize your album collection

Moving your songs

If you are struggling with your albums locations then Soundbase is for you! We created Soundbase with control over folder location in mind. You are always only two clicks away of moving your albums to a structured, template driven folder location.

Soundbase allows you to move or copy albums from its current location to locations that you can choose yourself. Just imagine all your albums being stored on album and artist name, file names automatically named to track - title. Album art will move along too, so you have not to worry if things get missing. And it enables you to keep track of duplicate albums, various artist albums, and much more...

Major features

1. Manage your music Collection
2. Easy load, edit and save ID3 tags.
3. Locate your music into different databases
4. Database grouping on any quality.
5. Online support.
6. Assigning track and album information.
7. Player
8. Drag-and-Drop playlist creation
9. Extended equalizer settings
10. Variable Playback settings
11. Volume leveling
12. Turn your music collection into ogg/mp3

Requirements:

1. PII-300Mhz with 128 MB of available RAM
2. Enough disk space to hold your music collection
3. 256 color monitor capable of 800 x 600 resolution (1024 x 768, 16 millions colors or more recommended)

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