[Project] Touhou Music Organizer, I need your desires !

[SighDuck]

Quack everyone !

I'm currently working on a free music organizer software aimed at Touhou.

I've got some ideas, as ordering local files through shortcuts using metadata (=> theme, author, game, character, circle, ...).
But, I need more user desires I order to make a tool that will be used for real (because unused tools are a shame ; and because my tastes aren't shared by everyone or by anyone maybe ? :wat: ).

So I need you to think about what would be your perfect music organizer, it's functions (and if possible an order between these functions).


Thank you in advance for any ideas !

EDIT V2 (here the ideas, that came from asking here and there):

It seams to be 4 main points

• Ordering, searching and browsing musics
  • By Touhou's Game, Character or Theme
  • By (event such as Comiket ...), album, circle,  band or artist
  • By Genre or BPM as a simple music genre
• Actions
  • Launch/Save of a searching result to a music reader
  • Manage equally local and web music
  • Consult and edit music or search group information
    • Base music data + Reference to the original music in case of arrange
    • Possible integration of lyrics (probably through .lrc files, that can be great for karaoke)
    • Possible integration of score (probably through .midi ?)
• Knowledge about music
  • To have lot's of Touhou music data (i.e. 5000 album reference at least)
  • Import data and update
  • Export data and user contribution
• Interface & personalizing
  • Choose  windowed interface showing filters and music lists (i.e. specific picture for each character)
  • Or choose minimal interface through right clicks/shortcuts/favorites/bookmark

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[BB]

Would an ability to detect and sort by BPM be feasible? Two different arrangements of the same track can have entirely different tones. I know BPM detection isn't perfect but it's easier than manually sorting 1000+ tracks into Activity and Relaxing playlists  :V

[SighDuck]

Thanks for your reply BB !

Beeing able to sort by BPM could be a good idea !
That's like a simple music genre analysis, great I didn't know it existed !

[Kaze_Senshi]

Please add compatibility with .lrc files to enable that karaoke function, or maybe compatible with the MiniLyrics plugin.

Maybe you could create a XML that defines which metadata that it would be able to read, this way you could adapt your program without having to recompile it.

[SighDuck]

Please add compatibility with .lrc files to enable that karaoke function, or maybe compatible with the MiniLyrics plugin.

Indeed ! That's a good idea !
In the same way it can even contain scores data.

Maybe you could create a XML that defines which metadata that it would be able to read, this way you could adapt your program without having to recompile it.

I've though of something similar: directly using a script language.

[CK Crash]

Maybe it's a given, but custom playlists management? You can't prepare for everything your users could want.

Also, BPM is a usable metadata field for MP3s, so it could be worthwhile to check that before attempting BPM analysis. Not sure if it's commonly used though.