Favorite Files

1. MediaPortal II Infinity
2. Soundbase
3. VirtualBox
4. VMware Player
5. Wine

Recent Posts

1. 
   Review - Soundbase

   2009.02.09 (Feb 9, 2009)

   It does everything the author says, fast and reliable. This is a kick-ass program!And in response to the previous review.. does my dishwasher cook me diner?

2. 
   Review - Soundbase

   2008.3.28 (Mar 29, 2008)

   Just to ensure everybody understands how soundbase works compared to other players. Soundbase doesnot use any DLLs, nor does it in itself play audio. The only thing it does is send files to the DirectX layer, the same layer used by windows media player, and a whole bunch of other players. So soundbase sounds as good as your DirectX setup does. If your codec on your PC is crap, then any DirectX player on your PC sounds crappy (or in case of video looks crappy). As this can be prevented by having a DLL, soundbase offers the alternative of using BASS drivers, a set of DLLs that provide, similar to, and partly using the DirectX layer. Now anyone claiming that either windows media player or BASS gives a bad sound quality, hmmmm. I dont know ....

3. 
   Review - Soundbase

   2007.08.01 (Aug 8, 2007)

   Hi All,
   
   I don't think that the last two reviews are very fair, so let me give you some other views on this application.
   
   It is focused on accessing a larger album collection by album, but allows filters of all kinds, and has a folder browser. Soundbase allows to gather images from 5 automated locations, but allows for full drag and drop from any webbrowser/explorer or the internal explorer. The reason for not including google/images is that this DOES NOT allow a unique identification of an image. If you want to add an image then browse there (or any other location) and just drag and drop.
   
   On the mentioned flaws, if you want you artist catogorised without the "THE", then you should just enter it in the tag that way. I like it with "THE", it is part of the Artists name, it is "The beatles" not "Beatles, The". Besides, where is the end, the word THE in english, DIE in german, DE in dutch, eeeh not sure what the rest of the world is using, but I am sure there are just a little too many...
   
   On the resource hungry comment, that is brave to say on an app that plays uses less then 1% CPU on my 2.4Gig system? And memory usage depends on how many albums you load into your database, it is normally about 50k per record inclusive a buffer album image, so a 5000 album database would be about 250mb. Not bad for all tag information and an image.
   
   Not sure about losing ART either, I have never encountered this myself, but you might want to post this to the forum so the programmer can have a look at the specific conditions, so far he has been helping out on any error that was posted. But again, I have never lost an image so far. Anything that you delete from SB ends up in the recycle bin anyway. If you read the forum there is some mentioning of album art that is corrupted.
   
   So my personal opinion is that this app rocks, it is the best tagger, organizer, album art collector in one GO, and it plays without having to have another 10 DLL's, just plain and simple on executable. If I could give 6 stars it would get it!
   
   RickYZ