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Looking for modifiable music library database

Hello,
I am searching for an audio program where I can enter any information I want into the music library and be able to generate a playlist from that information.

Just about every audio software I've come across stores artist, song, and album information in the music library and that's about it. I want to go way beyond this. I want to be able to add extra columns in the library's database to store, say, beats per minute, played instruments, country of origin, mood, songwriter's pets, whatever the heck I want. Then, I want to be able to generate a playlist, either based on specific criteria, a range, or randomly, using the additional library information.

Is there audio software out there that can do this? Or is there some type of audio player that can just play music and I can write a library application around it?

Thank you for your help.

Looking for modifiable music library database

Reply #2 –
MediaMonkey (http://www.mediamonkey.com) also allows you to add custom tags, and you can set up autoplaylists to sort by them.

Looking for modifiable music library database

Reply #3 –
As does foobar2000.

In fact I'm not sure what player currently doesn't allow custom tags to files.

Looking for modifiable music library database

Reply #4 –

I may not be able to get around this, but is there a way to do it without modifying the audio file itself?

Looking for modifiable music library database

Reply #5 –
If you talk custom tags, a player like J River let you choose to yes/no store them in the audio file.
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Looking for modifiable music library database

Reply #6 –
Quote from: glockenspiel on
I may not be able to get around this, but is there a way to do it without modifying the audio file itself?

If you don't want to use audio tags, then try Catraxx.