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Originally Posted by soundneedy
Hi everyone, I've been using Calibre to organize my sound plugin library:
What I (and possibly entire sound design / music production community) would love to see is Calibre plugin for sound databasing. It's something really missing because of such a niche target audience, and if someone is able to create this, would be a superstar among musician types.
The only difference / point of this is to have the functionality of in-library playback in the inspector / "book details" pane.
Being able to preview the waveform and scrub through it audiably, along with things like automatic duration detection, kbps, bit depth, stereo / mono channel count.
It should allow Calibre to accept industry standard audio files, WAV, AIFF, OGG, MP3, MP4, with higher bit depths.
Usually folder structure doesn't matter to DAW (audio production software), it can read a folder structure with sound files and just import them, but for human readability, if it could force Calibre to organize the actual folder structure by something that would resemble Author > Collection > Custom meta > Custom sub meta etc it would be amazing.
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soundneedy - sorry no one has answered this.
Firstly, the folder structure of a calibre library is fixed - ie \library\author\book (nnn)\. It cannot and will probably never be changed, there are many discussions on the issue, but here's the 'official' statement ==>>
Want to change the folder structure of the Calibre library?, in particular have a read of what's behind the spoiler and the link to the FAQ
You can store any file type in calibre, but adding non-ebook file types (foreign files) is a bit harder. One restriction is you can only have one instance of a given file type - i.e. one flac, one mp4 etc. I doubt that's going to change any time soon. But there are a number of workarounds people have developed to overcome that.
There are three ways to go about adding foreign files - from hardest to easiest they are:
a) use the
Add->Add Empty book to create a book entry with an author and title. and then use the
Add->Add files to selected book to add files to that book. the file selector dialogue has a button that is set to the only show ebook file types (MOBI, EPUB, etc) but if you click on that button you should be able to change it to all files - now you can select any file type - eg an MP4
b) this only works on Windows - put a shortcut to calibre.exe in your Send To folder, right click a file (eg an MP4) and select Send To->calibre.exe
c) drag the file (eg the MP4) over to the calibre book list and drop it there.
If you want to merge different file types (eg a flac, an ogg and an MP4) into one 'book' (because they are the same thing) there's a merge option to make that easier, its best to do it before adding metadata.
So now you have an MP4 in a library, what can you do with it? You can view (play) it in whatever program you have set up for opening MP4 files - so that might be FLV. There's an optional calibre PI that I suspect you might make use of - its called Open With - you can configure it to start different programs for different file types - so you might configure an entry to pass MP4 files to Audacity, and other entry to give MP4 files to Reaper etc etc.
I'll be honest, I doubt anyone is going to put their hand up and offer to develop any specialised plugins targeted at sound engineers unless they happen to be one. But that said it's surprisingly 'easy' to a bend calibre to manage things other than ebooks, and to integrate it with other software.
I reckon that's enough for now, feel free to ask questions, either via a PM or maybe start a own thread in the main forum - this ones a bit of a backwater.
Oh, and welcome to Mobileread and apologies again for the delay in responding.
Cheers BR