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Search engine for my mp3's

Dec 26, 2004 7:38AM PST

I want to create a search engine on my pc for all my mp3 convention speach files...the files are audio only of speaches at conventions...each speach is a separate mp3 file...I want to be able to search by "title" "author" "topic" "date" "location" etc. What software will accomplish this task...i must be able to burn the finished product to cd to work on any other pc...
Thanks for the help...
"Cy" in Denver

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Search engine for my posts.
Dec 26, 2004 7:40AM PST

You SPAMMED the boards.

How will you ever find your answer.

Bob

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Ouch Yikes
Dec 26, 2004 7:43AM PST

I only wanted to cover all bases...thanks for the info

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One idea.
Dec 26, 2004 7:53AM PST

I had a similar issue with a photo cd. Finally I made a web page that was on the CD that would allow navigation of the CD.

It worked across Windows and Linux so I considered that a success.

Try that?

Bob

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MP3 File Search Engine for My Pc
Dec 26, 2004 9:06AM PST

So am i assuming correct that you used a website creator with a search engine option on the website creator software...i also thought of this approach but thought i would also see if there is a pc search engine software that would do the job...

Thanks for the help and reply R. Proffitt...
"Cy" in Denver

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Actually I used Notepad.
Dec 26, 2004 9:45AM PST

HTML code is fairly simple. For search I note the F3 key in the browser and let them search for the keyword.

bob

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I used a different approach
Dec 27, 2004 8:26AM PST

Like Bob I used a web page, (html), but first of all I created an Excel spreadsheet of all my mp3's and made the names of the tracks into hyperlinks.

I then pointed to this spreadsheet in the web page using a link like this;

<a href="MyPlayList.xls" target="Display"><b>My MP3 Play List</b></a>

It works well in IE, the Excel spreadsheet opens up within the web page, but not so well in any other non-Microsoft browsers, as it downloads the file to be opened in Excel itself. I'm not sure if there is a way to open it in a non-proprietry browser the same as it does in IE.

Mark