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Main => Audio/Jukebox/MP3 Forum => Topic started by: MrD on January 27, 2009, 02:00:16 pm
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I've got a jukebox setup that is an iPod conversion inside a Rowe CD100. So from the outside it looks like a stock CD jukebox with all the CD title cards.
I've got all the music in iTunes. Each "CD" in the jukebox is a playlist in iTunes.
I need to make all the title cards for each CD. Most of the CDs represent just one album, but since I can put 99 songs per "CD", They now represent multiple albums per CD. For instance, Billy Joel Greatest Hits Vol 1 and Vol 2 are on one "CD".
I started typing out each title card, but it's getting tedious.
I know you can export a playlist (one at a time) from iTunes to an XML or TXT file, or you can export the entire library.
Does anyone know of a way to create this for a batch of playlists, and then somehow generate a title card from it? I was thinking if I can get it into some sort of database, maybe I could create some kind of mail merge type document.
I'm sure I can use the brute force method, but everytime I make a change I've got to redo the offending title cards. Anyone have any ideas? Hopefully freeware type ideas?
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I may have solved my own problem, but I'll post it here for anyone else.
iTunes allows you to print CD covers / tracks (with images if you have them). It will even make a mosiac of different album cover art. I'll have to test this on my full library when I get home tonight, but I think, that the CD title card is the same dimensions as a regular CD cover (since you place them in the same space). The only thing that I'll have to do is cut out and reverse the listing / CD depending on if it's on the left or right side page, and then somehow number the CDs. I might be able to do that through the Title itself. It even allows long playlists - up to 151 tracks (without cover art).
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I did some follow up. From iTunes I was able to produce a CD Cover Insert.
It works...okay.
My CD100 is designed to have title cards + the CD coverart. The Title card is about half the width of the CD cover. Unfortunately, iTunes produces the cover insert that is designed to fit inside the jewel case, so it's twice as wide as the CD Cover Art (front and back of the jewel case).
So vertically the size is correct, but horizontally it's too wide. I was able to just cut out the song listings, and that will work for the moment. I can use the cover art too, if I cut that out, and overlap it over half the listing sheet (which will work in most cases as it won't cover anything up).
Ideally it would be nice to be able to make a custom insert, and somehow adjust the dimensions, but I suspect that won't ever happen with iTunes, since they already procude the standard size insert.
I'm looking for a third party program, but the only ones that I can find run on the mac. Still beats typing everything in by hand.
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I am sorry to bring up such an old thread - but I am wondering if anybody else that has this type of setup (with up to 99 tracks) has come up with alternative solutions that they can share with all of us.
I have been struggling for quite some time now to resolve this, and have yet to find a good solution.
Anybody kind enough to share how they went about?
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Try Media Monkey. You can print a list of music (under reports) and do with it what you want.
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CC6264 - Thanks for your reply - but that is not what I was looking for. I am looking for an output that fits the style of the CD jukeboxes. Like this, but with 99 tracks....
http://www.cdadapter.com/download/cdwcard.pdf (http://www.cdadapter.com/download/cdwcard.pdf)