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  • Page 1 Sooloos Collections: Advanced Guide...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Contents Introduction n ................................3 Organising a and Using a S Sooloos Colle ection ......................4 Working wit th Sets ..............

  • Page 3: Introduction N

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Introduc ction This guide is s intended fo or the serious s Sooloos us er and for an nyone involv ved in prepar ring a compl ex or challenging c collection. Although the e automated d systems of metadata co...

  • Page 4: Organising A And Using A S Sooloos Colle Ection

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Organisi ing and U Using a So ooloos Co ollection The Meridi ian Sooloos music man nagement and server r system is highly rega arded for its intuitive an welcoming g user interface. Unlike oth er music servers, a S...

  • Page 5: Working Wit Th Sets

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Working g with Set We can grou up albums in to sets exact tly analogou s to a CD bo xed-set. The screen n shows Page 1 of a Library after we h have grouped two album m sets...
  • Page 6 Sooloo o s Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Here is anoth her example of a Set. By t touching the icons on the right we can quickly view the Works and Tracks o on each disc. Sets can be u used to group boxed d sets, but...

  • Page 7: Organising T Hrough Nam Ming

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Organisi ing throu ugh Nami The Artist re enaming func ction can be used in two ways to cha ange the app earance of t the ‘sorted b y artist’ view in the Album m Browser.
  • Page 8 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui The followin ng series of screens illustrate possible e organising options for a a classical co ollection. On the left w we are looking at an n un- groomed co llection in ‘Albums Sor ted by Artist t’...
  • Page 9 Sooloo o s Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Some users fi ind it more ntuitive to re efer to artists by their last n name. In the screen on the e left, we have chosen to display and sort him as ‘Lipatti, Dinu’.
  • Page 10 Sooloo o s Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui And we can quickly review othe r Albums in the same Se Below we se ee another view of the Artist Information Page | 10...

  • Page 11: Album Detai Il

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Album D Detail The example e above illust trates the us sefulness of t the Album D Detail page. On the right t we have a c complete list of Albums b by the same Artist.

  • Page 12: Finding Cont Tent

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Finding C Content Explore The ‘Sort As’ ’ setting for Artists will a lso be reflec cted when us sing the Expl ore function n on screen o or in either Control:PC o or the iPad o r iPhone app plication.
  • Page 13 Sooloo o s Collecti i ons: Adva anced Gui Press By This Artist Now w we see album ms in the Librar ry where she is Albu um Artist. Any of f these may be exp plored and then p played.

  • Page 14: Search

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Search The touchsc reen has a S earch functi on which can n be used to identify Alb um Artists, A Albums or Tr racks which contain the search string g. The screen n below show ws the result t of a search...
  • Page 15 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui i de If we select t the second A A lbum then w w e can see the Album De etail screen s shown below Page | 15...

  • Page 16: Focus

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Focus In addition t to the Explor Searc functions, the collectio on can be vie ewed in a wid de variety of f ways using Focus eature. Focus allows s us to restri ct the numb er of albums s shown on t...
  • Page 17 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui The screen a above shows s how a Focu us on albums s released by y Chandos co ntaining Cha amber Music c will reduce the albums d displayed to 16 from 392 The example e above show ws a ‘Focus’...
  • Page 18 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui The screens above show w a Focus on all the Album ms in the Lib rary by Dinu Lipatti. Note e how we on nly had to type in ‘lipa’ ’ to get this r result.

  • Page 19: Exploring Through Foc Cus

    Sooloo o s Collecti i ons: Adva anced Gui Exploring g through h Focus Seren dipity .. Our st tarting positio on is listeni ing to Dvora ak piano quart et by the Ensem mble ‘Domu us’. This is s the Album view a and we can see ot...
  • Page 20 Sooloo o s Collecti i ons: Adva anced Gui Press on his name and w we get this dialog Now w we see a Focus showing all the al lbums in the Librar ry on which he pla ayed. We co ould now go on to explore...

  • Page 21: Refining A A View

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Refining a a View In this seque ence of scree ens we show w how Focus can refine a view into a c collection. Above we ha ave a Compo oser Focus o n Copland an nd we see 44 4 albums fro...
  • Page 22 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui If we were in nstead lookin ng for String Quartets co omposed by Copland, the en this Focus s shows we h have only four albums to explore ( or immediat tely recognis se).
  • Page 23 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui We can also Focus on sim m ilar Albums s; in this case e the Focus w will widen to o all Albums o of the same Genre. Page | 23...

  • Page 24: Playlists

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Playlists We have sho own how the e Sooloos sys stem can exp plore, search h and focus o on content. W When it com es to playing, the system has a a Play Queu e which can be seen at a any time by p...

  • Page 25: Editing Albu M Metadata A

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Editing A Album Me etadata The system s stores metad data for each h album whic ch is normal ly download ed from the Sooloos Me etadata Service and contains a va ariety of info ormation, inc cluding track k titles, artist...
  • Page 26 Sooloo o s Collecti i ons: Adva anced Gui Here we c can see the editing fie elds to add or remove e Credits. After edit ts we need to remembe er to press Save Cha nges in the bottom ri ight.
  • Page 27 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Here we c can review the Genre es applied to this album At any sta age in the Edit Albu Metadat process we can see if f the online metadata a service has more up- -to-date informati...

  • Page 28: Editing M Etadata In C Ontrol Pc/Mmac

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Editing M Metadata i in Control l PC/MAC The edit-me etadata funct tion launche s from the A Album Details s window. To find the a album Click t the Play tab in Control:PC C/MAC to en nter the mus ic manager a...
  • Page 29 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui ere we can se ee the Edit A Album formation sc creen. e album’s m metadata is o rganized to eight sub-p -pages, selec ted by clic cking the tab bs along the top.
  • Page 30 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui acks: Here w we can renam me or number track ks on the alb bum. e system wil ll attempt to represent orks by disco overing comm mon text in jacent tracks ack Pick: To c change a Tra ack Pick ting, click on...
  • Page 31 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui In the Ge enre tab we can add or r remove genres. Here we can see the process of a adding ‘String Q Quartet’ as an n Instrumen ntation descripto The bett ter the genre e descriptions s, the more powerfu...
  • Page 32 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui u might susp pect that the e metadata rvice has mo ore informati ion on an bum. Alterna atively we m ay find that better ‘recog gnition hit’ ha appens if the rtist Name or r Album Nam me field has en corrected...

  • Page 33: Bulk Data Editing On T He Touch Co Ontrol

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Bulk Data a Editing on the To ouch Cont trol In recent sof ftware versio ons we have added some e ‘power too ols’ that can radically spe eed up groom ming or customising a collection .
  • Page 34 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Above we se ee Select and d Edit Mode . Two active areas have a appeared on n the top and d bottom of t the screen but we still h have access t to the transp port, volume e and other n...
  • Page 35 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui In Select and d Edit Mode we can add and/or remo ove Genres, Credits, s, and Mood Add/Remov ve Genre ere we show w the dialog s screen for dd/Remove Genres. o add Classic cal/Classical/ /Baroque to he 32 selecte...
  • Page 36 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Add/Remove e Tags opera tes in a imilar way to o Genres. On the left w we can see se tting up to dd the Tag ‘ Edit: No Gen nre’ and to emove the T Tag ‘Edit: No Picture’...
  • Page 37 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui A very usefu ul feature of Select and E dit mode is t the ability to o modify Cred dits in multip ple albums. The followin ng screens ta ke us throug gh a worked example to change the C Composer Cr...
  • Page 38 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui ess the botto Credits button and e get a new S Select Credit ts to dd/Remove d dialog. essing Select t Credit to A gives us s familiar wi indow on the e left. ere we have p picked ‘Barb ber, Samuel’...

  • Page 39: Forensic F Focus

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Forensic Focus Generally w hen a large o or specialised d collection i is imported i into Sooloos there will be e a percenta age of Albums for w which the me etadata is no ot complete.

  • Page 40: Some Finer P Points Of Foc Cus

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Some Fin ner Point ts of Focu Focus is a ve ery powerful function an d this section n delves dee eper to help y you get the m most out of it. As we described on n page 16 th e Focus scre...

  • Page 41: Genre

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui The Sooloos s system use es OR logic be etween same e-type criter ria but AND l ogic betwee en different t types. In this way picking g a number o of artists or g enres will ex xpand the fo cus, selectin...

  • Page 42: Renaming A Lbum Artist

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva a nced Gui i de Renamin ng Album m Artist 1. Touc ch an album by an Artist whose nam e you want t to change. In th his example t the first of B rahms1 is se elected.
  • Page 43 Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui 4. Pres ss ‘delete’ to o remove the e ‘1’ 5. Pres Enter 6. Clos se the Windo ows with top p right back at the t top level you u will see all ‘Brahms1’...

  • Page 44: Appendix 1: The Elemen Nts Of Metada Ata

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Appendi ix 1: The Element ts of Meta adata Useful so urces of M Metadata Here are som me very usef ful websites for research ing covers, p performers, c composers a and music an nd disc issues.

  • Page 45: Duplicate Album Artis Sts

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Duplicate e Album A Artists If a collectio n is built up over time an nd especially y if it combin nes collection ns or CD rips with file imp ports then it is possible th hat some art tists may app...

  • Page 46: Appendix 2: Managing A Collection

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Appendi ix 2: Man n aging a C C ollection n When buildin ng a collectio on it is useful o be able to keep an eye e on the ystems oper rating statist ics.
  • Page 47 Sooloo o s Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui More detaile ed (maybe to oo much) information can be foun d by pointing a w web browser to the debug inform mation at <broker IP a ddress >/de bug. In the examp ple on the le eft we used the address:...

  • Page 48: Appendix 3: Storage

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui Appendi ix 3: Stora Sooloos syst tems current tly provide a number of o options for s torage. • 200 and Con trol:15 provi ide approxim mately 500GB B and have s ingle drives built in.

  • Page 49: Backup

    Sooloo os Collecti ions: Adva anced Gui It is importa nt not to allo ow the drive es to become e too full. The e system nee eds space to keep log file es, for housekeepin ng, transcodi ing and for s toring playlis sts and save d focuses.
  • Page 50 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control The iPad applicatio on has four main areas, from top t o bottom: To E Explore content th he bottom section n scrolls left <-> ri ght. • Search and d Zone selection In th he screen above w we have explored...
  • Page 51 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control Search can be a co onvenient alterna tive to finding alb bums or works. search result is a list which can be scrolled vertically y as shown above On the iPad, searc ch results will inclu ude Albums and T Tracks.
  • Page 52 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control Searches do not h ave to be typed in n full or use contig guous characters. . This Here e we see the same e Quick Search qu uery on the Touch h/iPhone client.
  • Page 53 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control The same query ca an be performed o on the main touch h Control (note we On t the Control search h can be customis ed to include com mbinations of Artis picked Album and Tracks only) and we get the result...
  • Page 54 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control posite we see two searches in Contr rol:PC using differ rent partial string targ gets. With care, ex xperience and kno owledge of the col llection one can quic ckly develop a skill l in searching.
  • Page 55 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control Search can provide e useful results fr rom simple terms To s ee more about th he results or take actions, we can to ouch the ymbols which prod duce a listing dial Above we have us sed the Search All...
  • Page 56 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control Here is how on the e iPad we might u use: Sele cting one of the A Albums gives a list t of Tracks which can be reviewed or a ctioned using the buttons as bef fore.
  • Page 57 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M M obile Control ls exploration first l lists Albums … On this page we a re showing explo ration by Compos ser. n this case the co mposer name is A Aaron Copland, bu ut composers can n be changed to, e.g.
  • Page 58 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M M obile Control ls … … and on into trac cks. Show wing another Albu um choice. Page | 58...
  • Page 59 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control Showing exploring g to the same Albu u m via the Artist. re sophisticated e xploration of the content can show w Genres (incl uding Form or Ins strumentation) or r Tags which are f free descriptors adde ed on the Control...
  • Page 60 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control We can also perfo rm free-form libr ary searches. In t his example we are ve we can see the e search results a nd their explorati ooking for perform mances of Appala achian Spring.
  • Page 61 Sooloo os Collections s: Using the M Mobile Control As an alternative a a free-form search h of the library ca an be made in the ve we can see ho w a saved playlist t can be loaded in nto the Queue on Quick Search box.

  • Page 62: Appendix: G Genres, Sub-G Genres And S Tyles

    Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Appendix: Ge enres, Sub-g enres and St tyles Genre Sub-Genre Style Country Blues Blues Gospel Avant-Garde Improvised Mu usic Creative Orche stra Country Blues Blues Revival Avant-Garde Improvised Mu usic Free Improvisat tion Country Blues Classic Female Blu Avant-Garde Improvised Mu usic...
  • Page 63 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Blues Electric Blues Slide Guitar Blu Traditional Folk Drinking Songs Blues Electric Blues Soul-Blues ldren's Music ullabies Blues Electric Blues Swamp Blues ldren's Music Nursery Rhymes Blues Electric Blues Urban Blues ssical Classical 20th-Century Blues Harmonica Blu Electric Harmon nica Blues ssical...
  • Page 64 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Comedy Spoken Comed Blue Humor untry Traditional Countr nstrumental Coun ntry Comedy Spoken Comed Ethnic Comedy untry Traditional Countr ug Band Comedy Spoken Comed Gay Comedy untry Traditional Countr Old-Timey Comedy Spoken Comed Morning Radio untry Traditional Countr Square Dance Comedy...
  • Page 65 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Electronica Electronica Acid Techno ctronica Electronica eft-Field House Electronica Electronica Ambient Break beat ctronica Electronica Microhouse Electronica Electronica Ambient Dub ctronica Electronica Microsound Electronica Electronica Ambient House ctronica Electronica Minimal Techno Electronica Electronica Ambient Techn ctronica Electronica Neo-Electro Electronica...
  • Page 66 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Folk Traditional Folk Irish Folk Classical Form Etude Folk Traditional Folk Neo-Traditiona l Folk Classical Form Fantasia Folk Traditional Folk Sea Shanties Classical Form mpromptu Folk Traditional Folk Traditional Folk Classical Form ntermezzo Folk Traditional Folk Traditional Scot ttish Folk Classical Form...
  • Page 67 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Gospel Traditional Gos spel Black Gospel Inst trumentation nstrument Organ Gospel Traditional Gos spel Gospel Choir Inst trumentation nstrument Percussion Gospel Traditional Gos spel Hymns Inst trumentation nstrument Piano Gospel Traditional Gos spel Instrumental G ospel Inst trumentation nstrument...
  • Page 68 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Jazz Fusion Contemporary Jazz Vocal/Standards Ballads Jazz Fusion Crossover Jazz Vocal/Standards Standards Jazz Fusion Free Funk CCM/Contempora ary Gospel atin CCM Jazz Fusion Fusion Dance atin Dance Jazz Fusion Jazz-Pop Dance atin Freestyle Jazz Fusion Smooth Jazz Foreign Language Rock Rock en Espa¤ol...
  • Page 69 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Latin Latin America Mambo Tropical ambada Latin Latin America Mariachi Tropical Merengue Latin Latin America Modern Son Tropical Merenhouse Latin Latin America Tropical Mini Jazz Latin Latin America New York Salsa Tropical Rhumba Latin Latin America Norte¤o Tropical Sonero...
  • Page 70 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre R&B R&B/Soul Memphis Soul Hip-Hop/Urban Party Rap R&B R&B/Soul Motown Hip-Hop/Urban Political Rap R&B R&B/Soul Neo-Soul Hip-Hop/Urban Pop-Rap R&B R&B/Soul New Orleans R& &B Hip-Hop/Urban Southern Rap R&B R&B/Soul Northern Soul Hip-Hop/Urban Turntablism R&B R&B/Soul Philly Soul Hip-Hop/Urban Underground Rap R&B...
  • Page 71 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Rock Alternative/Ind die-Rock Britpop Alternative/Indie- Rock Punk Revival Rock Alternative/Ind die-Rock C-86 Alternative/Indie- Rock Punk-Pop Rock Alternative/Ind die-Rock Chamber Pop Alternative/Indie- Rock Queercore Rock Alternative/Ind die-Rock Cocktail Alternative/Indie- Rock Riot Grrrl Rock Alternative/Ind die-Rock College Rock Alternative/Indie- Rock Sadcore...
  • Page 72 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Rock Dance Teen Pop Hard Rock Aussie Rock Rock Europop AustroPop Hard Rock Boogie Rock Rock Europop Dutch Pop Hard Rock British Metal Rock Europop Eastern Europe ean Pop Hard Rock Death Metal/Black k Metal Rock Europop Euro-Pop Hard Rock...
  • Page 73 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Rock Pop/Rock Baroque Pop Punk/New Wave Punk Rock Pop/Rock Brill Building Po Punk/New Wave Ska Revival Rock Pop/Rock Bubblegum Punk/New Wave Sophisti-Pop Rock Pop/Rock Celebrity Punk/New Wave Straight-Edge Rock Pop/Rock Comedy Rock Punk/New Wave Synth Pop Rock Pop/Rock Girl Group...
  • Page 74 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre Soundtrack Cast Recording Show Tunes orld Africa African-Folk Soundtrack Film Music Blaxploitation orld Africa Afro-Beat Soundtrack Film Music Film Music orld Celtic/British Isles Pipe Bands Soundtrack Film Music Movie Themes orld Delta Blues Finger-Picked Guit Soundtrack Film Music Original Score orld...
  • Page 75 Sooloos Colle ections: Genre World Reggae/Caribb Gwo Ka orld Worldbeat Ethnic World Reggae/Caribb Junkanoo orld Worldbeat Folklore World Reggae/Caribb Mento orld Worldbeat ndigenous World Reggae/Caribb Party Soca orld Worldbeat nternational Folk World Reggae/Caribb Rapso orld Worldbeat ewish Folk World Reggae/Caribb Soca orld Worldbeat...

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