Trax

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Trax

• Better Mp3 Organizing Through Visualization

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Motivation

• Organizing CDs or records is a lot more fun
  than organizing computer files that's just a
  proven fact!
• Chuck Eddy, Senior Music Editor, The Village
  Voice
• My humble attempt to help poor music obsessives
  out
• Create an editable and browsable map of the
  genres styles of an mp3 collection
• Supports
• Browsing through genres and associated artists
• Creation and playing of playlists
• Labeling of mp3s genre

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Design Details

• Mp3s classified according to multiple genres
• Graph built up from tags of mp3s
• Force directed layout based on number of mp3s
  with same genres
• From genres, can browse to associated artists and
  create playlists

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Design Sketch
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Current Situation

• Saving all modified mp3 info to xml file
• Easier to deal with, plus less chance of killing
  mp3s!
• Currently
• Can read and write mp3 tags
• Can read and write to xml file
• Using Prefuse can display graphs using force
  directed layout
• Just need to get them working together!