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0. What's new in the version 1.23 ?

NEW e-mail : P.HEINRICH@eee-fs4.bham.ac.uk

V1.23 [minor update]

Improvements :    - can handle "new" MP3 headers
                  - cleans the file if it isn't a MPEG file (option -F)
                  - forces the cleaning of a file, even if it is a MPEG (-E)


1. Introduction :

Purpose      : It lists, adds TAGs, edits TAGs, converts, cleans, gives
               the duration of your MP3 (MPEG Audio) drawers (or CDs).
               
Release date : 12.09.99 

Distribution : It's free :) (you can't ask money for it)
               C source available if you ask it :)


2. Installation :

Copy the MPTool file wherever you want ...
Copy the genre file (MPTool.Genres) in c:

in DOpus ( © J. Potter ) : MPTool -RL {F}
                        or MPTool -RLC {F} if you want some comments


3. How does it work ?

It uses the same way of calculating MP3 length than Stephane Tavenard's MPEGA
( hope it works fine ;) since I have no doc on how to classify MPEGs ...

MPTool scans dirs (files or volumes), selects MPEG files and calculates the 
duration of those files. When it has finished his job, it gives you the total 
duration of ALL files it has listed ...

It can scan your whole hard disk to find MPEG files !!

That's one of its 24 options !

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
[generic]                 7679   12332  62.3% -lh5- a4ee Oct 30  1998 MPTool/Bonus/CheckCD/CheckCD
[generic]                  533    1107  48.1% -lh5- ae2f Sep  8  1998 MPTool/Bonus/CheckCD/CheckCD.ReadMe
[generic]                 7915   15096  52.4% -lh5- 0552 Sep  9  1998 MPTool/Bonus/DJMPTool/DJMPTool
[generic]                 1448    4041  35.8% -lh5- a359 Oct 30  1998 MPTool/Bonus/DJMPTool/DJMPTool.ReadMe
[generic]                 7470   12124  61.6% -lh5- 52df Aug 31  1998 MPTool/Bonus/LookFile/LookFile
[generic]                  584    1144  51.0% -lh5- 0d97 Aug 31  1998 MPTool/Bonus/LookFile/LookFile.ReadMe
[generic]                19896   36632  54.3% -lh5- 8986 Aug 15  1999 MPTool/MPTool
[generic]                 1079    1905  56.6% -lh5- b2e4 Dec 22  1998 MPTool/MPTool.Genres
[generic]                19311   78963  24.5% -lh5- a5aa Sep 19  1999 MPTool/MPTool.Guide
[generic]                  979    2303  42.5% -lh5- 44b4 Sep 19  1999 MPTool/MPTool.ReadMe
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total        10 files   66894  165647  40.4%            Oct 14  1999