Scans your drives and network shares for mp3 files and generates play lists for each artist and album, generates a master list of all mp3's found and for each artist. Currently only searches using information from filename i.e. "artist-album-##-track.mp3" support for ID3 tags is in development.

Scans your drives and network shares for mp3 files and then displays the results in an explorer tree fashion organised by artist and album. Also generates play lists in same categories as well as generating a master list of all mp3's found. Currently only searches using information from filename i.e. "artist-album-##-track.mp3" support for ID3 tags is in development. Using Winamp or simular MP3 Weasel can cue songs or albums directly from the tree interface.

The original goal of this project was to organise and share mp3 files on a local area network. By setting up the application to scan all your network drives, it is easy to find all the music on the network. You can then simply browse through all the mp3’s found sorted by artist and play them without moving the file or even knowing where it is stored. It is hoped that this program will evolve into a kind of living play list that automatically updates according to what resources are available.

Future areas of development will include

• Development for Mac OS
• ID3 tag support
• Better file cueing abilities
• Support for offline resources
• Search Support
• Graphical play list editor

Bugs and Issues

• Dumb handling of funny characters like “(“ and “,”
• Slow initial loading of tree
• Generates file lists in app directory by default
• Doesn’t save state of search directories
• Microsoft setup fails in Windows 95

Current Status

I have not done much work on this project for some time. It is mostly complete in its current incarnation, although I would like to implement some of the bigger features like play list editing and ID3 tag support. Enthusiasm for this project has died away a lot since I decided to organise my MP3 collection much more sensibly. It is unlikely I will complete this project as Bullet Proof software Have release another program of the same name which has everything I ever wanted in a an MP3 weasel and the evolution of simular features in MS Windows Media player.