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Documentation of the 1.51 version

   Summary

I.   What is MP3 List Maker ?

II.   Features
II.1.   The Main Interface
II.2.   The Option Menu
II.3.   TaskTray
II.4.   Settings

III.   Troubleshooting

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    I.    What is MP3 List Maker ?

        MP3 List Maker (commonly call MLM) is a software which creates lists of your MP3s (Mpeg 1 Layer 3 Audio Files). Its engine can make Text and Html files. The "Server" Part of MLM can also regularly rebuild the lists and provide links in HTML files to enable direct-download.

        MP3 List Maker works with your existing web and/or ftp daemon ! You can publish the HTML files in a selected directory and use a "Base URL" for each links. It has been tested and work with the most used web and ftp servers !

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    II.    Features

        MLM is an useful tool to make a MP3 Server.

        II.1     The Main Interface

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    Here is the main interface of MLM ! You can choose a source and a target directory from there. Once selected, just push the "Make The List !" Button.

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        II.2     The Option Menu

    This is the "Listing Options" panel of options menu. You can set the type of listing you want to use. You can also write the date & time at the beginning of the file. The "Open once done" option open with notepad the created list. It doesn't occur when you're using the server module.

    The Language panel lets you choosing your language. You can choose English or French (set by default)

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    This is the "HTML" (also server) Panel. You can set the title of the HTML file (the title of the window when reading by a web browser). In the server frame, you can set the list refresh time. It's useful when a lot of people upload files on your server. The Base URL is the URL which is the root dir of your mp3s. It looks like this :

[(ftp|http)]://([login]:[password]@)[(IP|domain_name.ext)]/[base_dir].

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        II.3     TaskTray

   In order to work as a server, we think it was better to disable the MLM button is the taskbar to but it in the "TaskTray"tasktray_01.gif (2660 bytes)

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        II.4    Settings

   MP3 List Maker automaticaly save all your settings each time you use it, and load them each time you load MLM.

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    III.    Troubleshooting

        « When I start MLMS, I have a Run-Time error which asks for a file. »
MLMS needs a dll/ocx files pack to work fine. You can get it there, on the MLMS website.