With SDJ Standard Edition, Concrete MediaMerge
TM
(MM) is used only to
load music into your media library. With SDJ Professional Edition or
higher, MM is also a powerful stand-alone utility. MM Professional makes
it easy to copy sound files to your SDJ hard drive from USB memory
sticks, iPods, and external hard drives, and helps you organize your
media file collection. See Concrete MediaMerge
TM
in the Appendix for
details.
To keep things separate, and make merged music easier to find, MM
copies files to
C:\My
Music\
, and tracks are merged into folders by
artists. Tracks are renamed to the industry standard, Artist – Title.typ
where typ is MP3 etc. using the tag information. This even works with
the iPod and other media players that name tracks in their own strange
ways. MediaMerge is a very handy tool to bring order to a chaotic mess
of music, or to merge several media file collections into one from
multiple sources.
Your Media Library
To play songs, sound files must have been previously loaded into the SDJ
media library using MM. Your media library has additional information
not contained in file tags, like whether a song has explicit lyrics, or is
considered holiday music. It also keeps statistics like how many times a
songs has been played or rejected.
SDJ uses a no frills database, designed specifically for multimedia
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