Song Director 2.00 version is a major update. It has many new features and updates. Released in November 2019.
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New versions of Song Director for 2018
There have been some new versions of Song Director released in 2018.
To know which version you are using go the pull down help menu and choose “about”
To get the latest version, simply download Song Director again from the website and install it into the same location as before, just like the first time. The setup program will not overwrite any of your existing data. Here are the changes:
Organizing digital audio music – Song Director
Organizing digital audio music
Digital and Analog music differences
Here is a good article about Digital and Analog music by Recording Connection.
The question of analog vs. digital audio is one of the more hotly debated questions in the world of music, film and media today. Does digital sound better? Does analog sound better? Is there even a noticeable difference?
It’s impossible to understand the difference completely without understanding what distinguishes analog audio from digital audio. A full discussion of these terms is best left to your curriculum and discussions with your mentor in the studio. For now, though, here’s a brief explanation of what these two words mean, and the differences between them.
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Organizing and cataloging digital audio recordings – Song Director
Organizing and cataloging digital audio recordings – Song Director
Digital audio recordings are great until you try to sort through thousands of them to make sense of it all. Fortunately Song Director music catalog software is here to help. As well as being a music player to play the songs the way you want them to be played.
Below is a great article about digital audio recordings:
The death and life of digital audio
By Jonathan Sterne
For many years now, critics have written of digital audio recording – in its myriad formats – as less ‘live’ or less ‘natural’ than analogue recording. By implication, these critics suggest
that digital audio is closer to death. Taking the metaphysical assumptions behind such claims as its starting point, this essay analyses three key elements of digital audio:
temporality, definition and mobility. By troubling the notion of time as a continuous linear flow, and by troubling the idea that all analogue media share this continuity with ‘natural’
time, it is argued that digital recordings have as legitimate a claim on sonic experience as their analogue counterparts. The argument about experience extends into a consideration
of the problem of sonic ‘definition’: the range of possible pitches and volumes in a given recording. Higher definition does not necessarily make a recording more lifelike. Finally, the contexts in which recordings are generally heard today mitigate against the idea that
they must aim to perfectly reproduce a live performance. Rather, their liveliness should be judged by the degree to and manner in which the recordings themselves circulate. Judged
by their social lives, rather than by a dubious metaphysics, digital recordings are at least as lively as analogue recordings ever were.
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Song Director can manage and play all your iTunes songs
Song Director can manage and play all your iTunes songs
The best music management software. Providing a Music database of your songs. Song Director for Windows can manage and play all your iTunes files in a easy way. Song Director can also replace iTunes for many functions.
Below is a good article for all you iTunes users out there:
Mastered for iTunes:
by the Apple Corporation:
Whether you’re a major label or a small indie, you provide the most important ingredient for iTunes—the music itself. It’s our job to faithfully and accurately deliver your songs and albums to fans around the world exactly as you intend them to be
heard. We’ve designed our tools to facilitate the best possible results, ones that live up to your highest standards for music available on the iTunes Store. To achieve this transparency, you need tools and technologies from us to ensure delivery of the highest
quality master recordings possible into our ecosystem. With over 315 million iOS devices.
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Comparing vinyl records to CD’s and digital audio files – Song Director
Here is a good article comparing vinyl records to CD and digital audio files
Song Director Music Database Software for Windows can Catalog and organize your digital music collection. Download it for free here
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
ABOUT VINYL, CD’s AND AUDIO FILES
BY JAY MILLAR (UNITED RECORD PRESSING)
I’m sure you heard about the
resurgence of vinyl or possibly
perused the Billboard cover story on the marriage of vinyl and digital. It’s true, vinyl is back… not that it ever went anywhere, but in a time when physical music sales are shrinking, vinyl is experiencing a real period of growth.
From vinyl’s big comeback to the time restrictions of a 45 RPM 7”.
Hopefully you will find this helpful as you’re putting together your first or next vinyl project. Enjoy.
vinyl, it’s the new vinyl!
These days one of the most common questions I get is what is causing the big vinyl comeback? Oddly enough I don’t think it’s what happened to vinyl that’s causing the comeback, it’s what happened to digital. First, for many audiophiles and DJs, vinyl never went away. For others, such as myself, it’s the emergence of the MP3 that brought vinyl back. Plain and simple, there’s no need for discs to be compact any longer so some folks are ditching their CDs in favor of the warmth of vinyl and the convenience of MP3. CD has its advantages and if there was only one format, CD would probably make the most sense as you get a tangible item, artwork and a reasonable level of compactness. That said, with the emergence of digital, things have changed and the ideal situation now seems to be having your iPod or MP3 player for times that require portability (the car, the gym etc.) combined with vinyl for the peak experience at home. If you’ve got vinyl and an MP3 you’ve got everything you had with the CD but the artwork is larger and the sound is warmer and somehow more intimate. Plus listening to a CD (or MP3 for that matter) is a common daily background activity but listening to vinyl is an event.
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MP3 AND AAC EXPLAINED Song Director music player
MP3 AND AAC EXPLAINED – Song Director
Song Director is a music player and music collection software.
Song Director organizes MP3 and most music formats for digital music. Below is a good paper explaining MP3 and AAC music formats which Song Director can help organize for your music collection. You can download Song director for free here
MP3 AND AAC EXPLAINED
by KARLHEINZ BRANDENBURG1
MPEG AND INTERNET AUDIO
The proliferation of MPEG coded audio material on the
Internet has shown an exponential growth ”MP3” has
been featured in numerous articles in newspapers and periodicals
and on TV, mostly on the business pages because
of the potential impact on the recording industry.
While everybody is using MP3, not many (including
some of the software authors writing MP3 encoders,
decoders or associated tools) know the history and the details
of MPEG audio coding. This paper explains the basic
technology and some of the special features of MPEG-
1/2 Layer-3 (aka MP3). It also sheds some light on the
factors determining the quality of compressed audio and
what can be done wrong in MPEG encoding and decoding.
Why MPEG-1 Layer-3 ?
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Music catalogs & mp3 digital file formats – Song Director
Music file catalogs, formats and organization of which Song Director can be used.
Cataloging (or cataloguing) of all types of digital music files can be done easily with Song Director database software. These music files can be in many different formats such as (MP3, M4a/AAC, iTunes, WMA, WAV, OGG and FLAC files)
There is no better way to organize different music files than with Song Director Software. And best of all it is free to download and use. Song Director is also a music player and can create advanced playlists.
Below is a good article by Myongsu Park comparing music formats being used today:
Comparing Music File Formats
A lot of people surf the Internet to find music. Many sites the Net surfers visit contain links to music or other listening material samples.
Unfortunately it is highly likely that the unwary surfers click a music file to find a very large music file downloading and the computer frozen due to the gigantic
music file size. There exist a variety of sound file formats among which an mp3 enjoys its high
popularity. MP3 files are ubiquitous on the Net and it is no exaggeration to say that the MP3 is now a household name in the world. People, however, enjoy an
mp3 music file without knowing what it is and its strengths and weaknesses in comparison other popular music file formats.
In this regard, I would like to provide background information and guidance about the most commonly used sound formats for music clips available on the Net and
to offer usability pointers for an improved Web audiophile experience.
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Music Collection Software Organizing and playing of mp3 digital songs – Song Director
Organizing a collection of digital music files – Song Director
Here is a good article on discussing the issues with organizing large amounts of digital music collections. This is what Song Director Software can help you with.
ORGANIZING DIGITAL MUSIC FOR USE:
AN EXAMINATION OF PERSONAL MUSIC COLLECTIONS
Sally Jo Cunningham , Matt Jones, Steve Jones
Department of Computer Science
University of Waikato
Hamilton, New Zealand
ABSTRACT
Current research on music information retrieval and music
digital libraries focuses on providing access to huge,
public music collections. In this paper we consider a
different, but related, problem: supporting an individual
in maintaining and using a personal music collection. We
analyze organization and access techniques used to manage
personal music collections (primarily CDs and MP3 files),
and from these behaviors, to suggest user behaviors that
should be supported in a personal music digital library
(that is, a digital library of an individual’s personal music
collection).