Table of
Contents.................................................................................................................. 3
About the Program................................................................................................................ 5
Program Installation............................................................................................................... 7
Main Screen.......................................................................................................................... 9
MP3PMS will
randomly select files from your MP3 music files folder, and distribute them to
one or two locations, namely on your MP3 player.
To use this
program, you need to maintain a central repository of ALL of the songs that you
wish to distribute to your MP3 player. Typically, this repository is a folder
on your hard drive, and it will contain more files than your MP3 player can
store.
On command,
you point the program to your central repository, and then decide which of two
locations you want songs to be distributed to. Typically, these two locations
are your MP3 player’s internal memory, or an external memory card, like an SD
card. The program will perform the following functions:
1) If
there are any files in the MP3 player location(s) that you selected, they will
first be moved off to a temporary directory, so they are not reselected during
this execution.
2) The
location(s) that you selected are now populated with randomly-chosen selections
from you music repository.
3) Finally,
the files that were moved off of the MP3 player originally are moved back to
the music repository.
Like
everything I write, I wrote MP3PMS because I had a strong need for a program
like this. I could find nothing that did this kind of thing, whether shareware,
freeware, or commercial.
I use this program every time I get
tired of the songs that I have on my MP3 player. I felt that it would be a
terrible shame not to share this program with the world (hence the documentation).
I have not
wasted a lot of time putting in all kinds of little features and functions that
very few people, if anybody, will ever use. That results in bloatware. This
program is small and fast.
I will entertain ideas for
enhancements, bug reports, suggestions, comments, etc. Please contact me at
support@davegrund.com. Technical support is available for free via e-mail.
MP3PMS is manually installed.
1) Create
a directory (folder) for the sole use of MP3PMS.
2) Copy
the distribution file, MP3PMS10.ZIP into that directory.
3) Unzip
that file using your favorite unzipping program.
4) After
all of the files are expanded, MOVE MP3PMS.ZIP
to somewhere else for safe keeping, out of that directory.
5) Create
a Windows shortcut to the program, with no command line parameters. Put this
shortcut with all of your other Windows applications. This is the one you will
use to call the program up on demand.
Hard Drive Music
Directory: This is the
repository from which all of the MP3 music to be distributed will be selected.
A listing of the songs in that directory displays below. Beneath that box is
the total of songs in that directory.
MP3 Player-
Internal: This represents the internal memory of the
MP3 player.
MP3 Player-
Ext Card: This represents the external MP3 player
memory card, like an SD card.
Send to This
Folder? If
this box contains a check mark when the “Select” button is depressed, then this
folder will receive file sthat were randomly chosen from the Hard Drive Music
Directory.
Checkbox: Do Not
Warn… This
application is designed to MOVE, and not only COPY, files from the source. If
you do not acknowledge that you know this, then a message box will display
every time to run this program.
Break Press
this button if you wish to interrupt program processing. For example, you may
have decided to populate an SD card, but suddenly decided to change your mind
for whatever reason.
Help This
button will display a message telling you where you can find the HTML-format
help file.
About This button will bring
up a form that tells you what version the program is, and whether the program
was registered or not.