Hello all,

It has been a very while ago, but now a major update has been issued to my submission to the available Empeg/RioCar tooling:

EmpCatalogue version 2.00
A MS-Word macro to generate a comprehensive catalogue (Table of Content, Album- and Artist overview) from an exported music database via (j)Emplode.
With this release I've also setup a website making it possible to give more information including screenshots.
The major updates can be found in the GUI and tweakable layouts.
Click here to go my empeg-site.
Follow the instructions carefully, including the troubleshooting part! Please report any problems since with a new release also new bugs are introduced

Question
An old version still exist on RioCar.Org. How can I update its contents zo it now points to my website?

Have fun & see ya at European Meeting!
(Dat is weer veel te lang geleden Rob!)

Eize

I tried to change the entry on riocar.org, and I thought I did the right things, but it didn't seem to work. Tom, are you listening? What happened?

Anyway, cool utility, thanks!

Feature request for the next version of the utility: Optionally make a catalog of each of the playlist trees instead of going by artist/album. This would make life easier if I ever lost my hard disk and needed to re-create my playlist tree structure.

Can that be done?

Tony,

Can be done, but far more complex
You know: programmers say: difficult things we do immediately, while impossible things takes a little bit longer.

With current release I just sort everything based on "tune", so I can read it from a loop from Excel. If I want to make it supporting playlists, I have to interpret "playlist" entries and follow the 'links'. While that is not the hardest part, the next step is to put it in a clean way into the document.

But it has been added to the wishlist!

Cool. Can't wait to try it. Hopefully you've fixed some of the earlier problems with it not working on particular MS Office systems.

BTW: It seems like the large versions of your screenshots don't work

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make a catalog of each of the playlist trees

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You mean, like my playlist stylesheet does?

You could just make one printout with each, if you only want the playlists formatted for restoring the player and not for everyday use (keep it in a desk drawer or the player's original box or something).

Well... that had everything to do wih security problems or missing OCX'es. Read the "Problems"-part carefully.

About the pictures... I saw it
Also the included zip-file is corupted...

Well... will be fixed tonight!

Cheers

You mean, like my playlist stylesheet does?

I guess... But...

Requires OpenJade or other DSSSL engine. Recommends GNU Make, JadeTeX or Ted, psutils.

... I'm not running or using any of those things. That sounds like Linux stuff.

But it has been added to the wishlist!

Thanks!

Eize,
I'm having trouble getting to your website to see your screenshots and to download the new version 2.0. Interested to see what's different in the new release. I'm still playing around with the beta version you sent me recently. Thanks for your efforts and time.
Steve

OK
The image viewer has been repaired!

That's exactly what I was thinking about. But since I'm also active as OpenSource programmer with OpenH323 stack, I've Cygwin or MinGW installed. This delivers you the complete GNU-GCC environment just under a directory, immediately executable under Windows.

Take a look again. I've just updated the website repairing mentioned problems (be sure flushing your cache). Also the ZIP-archive was corrupt, which has been fixed.

This version also implements the way you wanted to have those Artist-Album layout work.

Have fun Steve

I'm pretty sure there are DSSSL interpreters for Windows; I just don't know anything about them, being a Linux and Unix kind of geek. I can't imagine that a market as big as the Windows one is entirely devoid of decent document-processing software.

I think OpenJade builds on Windows, and there might even be pre-built binaries around. I don't know whether it requires Cygwin, but IMO Cygwin is a Good Thing to have around if you're forced to use Windows. OpenJade can produce RTF output, which I think has readers on Windows. The recommendations are for convenience - Make to automate the running of your DSSSL processor, JadeTex to create a PostScript file for printing, and psutils to print 2 or 4 pages per side to make a booklet. There are certainly other ways to acheive all of these.

I use Linux as my development platform, and I'm not able to test any Windows-specific stuff, but I'd really appreciate it if someone would give a report of using my stuff there, particularly if they encountered (and preferably overcame!) problems on the way. I'd like to be able to help people like Tony as much as possible, but without feedback from Windows users, there's not a lot more I can do.