2. Features

2.1. What's new ?

The new features of the current version of Medialibrary can be found in the file /WHATSNEW

2.2. User Interface

  • Status Bar with Current Selection Management & Monitored Task Stacking

  • Catalog Load Tracing (options/trace menu)

  • Recent files list

  • Automatic backup & Warning if saving on an already existing different Catalog

  • Graphical file category change

  • Browsable help & documentation

  • Numerous switchable gui icon sets (through setting the medialib.icons.directory property in the resources/medialib.prop file)

  • 2 GUI loading & indexing refresh politics: continuous or on action end only (customizable in resources/medialib.prop by setting the medialib.gui.refresh property either to "OnModelEvent" or to "OnActionEndOnly"). The last one is 6 times faster

2.3. Catalog & Indexation

XML format

  • Read & write catalogs in XML and gzip XML

Full ADC catalog 1.15b format compliance

  • Minus: media drive "free size" field

  • Read & write (catalog, medias, dirs & files, categories, dates, comments, sizes...)

  • Adc uses a nonstandard date storage format, so there may be up to 4 min delay between adc dates loaded from pure adc and stored by MediaLibrary

Indexed media & file tree sorted view

  • Shows full indexed filesystem & file properties (name, size...)

  • Directory properties (full size, files number...) autocomputing

  • Media can be renamed & removed (media tree popup or Edit menu)

  • Media & directories can be sorted (media tree popup or Edit menu)

  • Customizable sort strategies (in resources/medialib.prop)

  • Select Subtree action (media tree popup or Edit menu)

Media indexation

  • Any drive or directory may be indexed in the current catalog

  • MediaLibrary on Windows guesses drives' label, type & serial number

  • Indexed MP3 files' ID3s are parsed as file comments

Hierarchical categorization model

  • Compliant with pure ADC file format

  • The '/' slash character is used as categories level separator

  • Features a tree categories view showing categorized files

  • Navigation from categorized files to media view by double click

  • "new", "add","move" and "remove" categories tree popup & Edit menu actions

  • All selected files may be recategorized at the same time

2.4. Tools

File & media search feature

  • Toolbar search textfield & launch button

  • Google like behaviour for the search entries : spaces are understood as AND operators

  • Category cross searching

  • Statistics tab providing information on found files

Stats

  • Toolbar statistics launch button to compute statistics on the current catalog

  • An increasing panel of statistics for now : basic statistics on files, statistics on multimedia files

  • An "easy to extend" stats computing architecture. Develop your own statistics algorithm

Preferences Edition

  • Edits the reources/medialib.prop, saves on exit

  • Single and multi properties handled

Report

  • HTML output

  • Reports missing serial episodes in the subcategories of the Preferences chosen top serial Category

2.5. Quality Assurrance

Many bugs have already been fixed. Please look on www.sourceforge.net/projects/medialibrary.

If you want to send us a bug report, do not forget to attach to your e-mail all the files in the /logs directory which lies on the root of medialibrary directory. The content of this file is watchable via the option Trace in the Tools menu.

The diffrerent version of Medialibrary are name X.Y.Z.v where :

X

The major version of Medialibrary. It changes only when the perimeter of Medialibrary changes.

Y

The minor version of Medialibrary. It changes only when the features of Medialibrary changes.

Z

Technical number. It changes when technical fixes are added to Medialibrary.

v

The operating system number. Since Medilibrary is a portable application, it does not