Dusty Tunes Shows Off Your ITunes Collection Or Playlists
Want to show your friends which tracks you can mixtape for them, or just show off your brilliant collection of pop hits and esoteric oldies? Dusty Tunes converts iTunes libraries and XML files into web-based lists.
After signing up and registering your account, the site directs you on how to upload your iTunes library XML file to the site for a full reading. If that’s not something you’re keen on doing, you can export individual playlists instead, as explained in the FAQ. Once it’s uploaded and shared ,your library appears as an alphabetised, nested list, and those clicking through can get audio previews of the tracks (presumably through a third-party store) and direct iTunes purchase links.
The site also provides easy embedding and sharing codes for forums, social networks, blogs, and other sites. If that’s how wide open you want to make your listening, fair enough, but most will probably just want to share their libraries with a few friends. It’s a shame, then, that password protection isn’t an inherent option, but Dusty Tunes otherwise does what it claims. DustyTunes [via eHub]
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Looks like your writeup took them down! I'm getting a service error. It sounds like a good service, though.
@2_of_8:
Well, one way is to input the folder/filenames and map them into tags (either pre-set or user-defined). Then combine the old and new tags. Then either output (and rename) the files using the new tag set, or create a playlist with those files (+ tags) included. Then output the playlist according to a desired folder/filename template. You can define any sequence of pre-set or custom tags as an output mask. I use different output masks for playlists depending on whether I am synchronising to an iPod, a phone, a filename-based mp3 player (ie, Rockbox), or just streaming remotely.
meehawl
@meehawl: Thanks, it looks like an excellent program. I don't see an option to export folder-based structure, though. I could import my library, have it sort it by tags etc, and then export as XML - but, as I said above, my tags are about 90% correct, and I would rather use the folders by which the songs are in.
So, essentially, this doesn't even have to be a _music_-related program. I simply would like to get a text (or preferably table) representation of a file structure.
Nonetheless, this is a good program and I could see myself making use of it.
@2_of_8:
JR Media Jukebox will let you remap a folder/filename scheme to whatever you want as an output, producing either M3U/XML/HTML or whatever for final output.
[www.mediajukebox.com]
I use mostly label/genre mapping for my file-based storage, but use standard and custom content tags for the database views.
You can also write conditional expressions to parse your music library database if you want to get really fancy.
meehawl
I like this! I keep track of the play counts on my tracks. Every year I create a smart list of the top 100 most played tracks from that year. This will be useful for saving those lists.
Ninja007
What could I use that would allow me to export my folder-based music database? (My tags are done well for about 90% of music, but the folder organization is done well for 100% of it. I have:
Artist\Year - Album\TrackNumber - Title '(for albums by artist) and
Album (Year)\TrackNumber - Artist - Title '(for genre-based albums: "Top 100 Rock Hits", "Bossa Nova Favourites", etc)
I use MediaMonkey rather than iTunes which also exports xml data (as well as html, excel, and csv) so I assume it would work for that also? I'll have to check.
A while back I created a wordle cloud of all of my MP3s using exported xml data. Not so useful for finding specific artists or tracks, but it gives a neat overview of our collection.
Wordle on Flickr
cmaceachen
I remember using something similar to this a few years ago. Can't for the life of me remember the name of the website though.