library trial software / shareware for mac

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.3 or later.

The CD/DVD Library is the ultimate database to manage your Compact Disc or DVD collection. With the CD/DVD Library, you can search through your CD/DVD collection for various artists, movie titles, song names, ratings, categories, and even lyrics to a song!
Web links have been added to store web information related to a movie or artist. A "Status" area has also been added to keep track of those movies or CDs you loan out to friends!
Main features:
- Stand Alone Application - And now CD/DVD Library is a completely self-running application!
- More Internet Features - "Web Link" to the Internet Movie Database for tracking your favorite DVD titles!
- Unlimited Track entries per disc - No longer limited to 20 tracks per title
- Status Field - See if your CD/DVD is "in" or if it was loaned out to a friend
- "Web Link" entry field - Include your favorite web site associated with that CD or DVD!
- Music Online - Links to popular internet music search sites!
- Greater user printer control - Now full access to Page Setup and Print menus!
- Sample Data Included - Complete with Graphics and Sound!
- High Quality Graphics - Enhanced graphical layout with simple to use menus and icons!
- Detailed Listing - List your CDs/DVDs by artist/director, title, category, or rating! You can choose!
- Print Options - Print huge lists of CD/DVD titles on the fly!
- Comprehensive Data Importing - Import CD/DVD Data from a wide variety of data formats. For a complete list of all supported data formats, click here. The CD/DVD Library does not automatically pull in data from your CDs, but rather works in conjunction with applications that do, to provide a complete data storage option!
- Expanded sorting functions - The ability to sort huge CD/DVD collections with one simple click!
- Cross Platform - Fully compatible for both Macintosh and Windows users!

Library Monkey is the ultimate tool for cataloging, managing and processing your audio assets.
Library Monkey offers many powerful features, including advanced database structure, fast searching, CD ripping, and full conversion options.
Take your SFX, Music, and other CD libraries and rip them to a supported file formats. Once completed you will have access to all of the content you used to spend countless hours searching for and listening to on CD.
Once you have imported your assets, you can organize them according to your needs and working style. User defined sets allow quick access to your favorite files, project references or other user defined categories. Do you keep a talent database? Use sets to organize by name, style, or any other category for instant access to all of your assets. The options are endless.
Have multiple users? No problem. Just export your database and import them to each station and everyone has instant access to your sound library.
In addition, we have integrated the powerful drag-n-drop conversion features of Sound Grinder into Library Monkey. This provides you the ability to perform immediate conversion without the need to import your files.
Import It
Import existing audio assets through several time-saving options including drag-n-drop and a contextual menu item in the Finder.
Organize It
Create Smart Sets to automatically organize your assets by any criteria you desire. Use standard Sets to create a customized hierarchy, where assets can be in as many Sets as needed.
Find It
Search all your libraries or only the ones you desire with a simple selection. Perform complex searches using supported symbols and Boolean options. Refine your searches until you find the right asset. Look up recent searches via the Recent Searches list or pop-up menu.
Process It
Process your assets with these and many other time-saving features:
- Quickly open your selected assets in another application directly from Library Monkey.
- Drag an audio asset right from Library Money into your DAW and other application
- Copy your selected assets to a desired location and then quickly open them in another application.
- Perform advanced file processing on your audio assets and then open them in another application.
- Create presets for quick recall of common settings. Apply advanced naming schemes to the output files.

Main features:
Power:
- Sophisticated processing engine for speed and stability.
- One window design.
- Customizable list view.
- Resizable control section.
- Quick access to conversion-only session.
- Rapid Convert providing in-Finder file conversion.
- Unattended processing mode.
- Multiple error logging levels.
- Unicode support.
Processing:
- Comprehensive conversion engine.
- Create Droplets for quick access to your common settings.
- Multi-channel file support.
- RMS and Peak normalizing.
- Force sample rates feature.
- Advanced naming options.
- User presets.
- "Retain Folder Structure" option.
- Naming options for Pro Tools compatibility with split audio files.
- Pull-up/pull-down sample rates.
- Custom sample rates.
- 31 character name limit support.
Asset Management:
- User-defined fields.
- User-defined Sets.
- Smart Sets for automated searches.
- Recent search recall.
- Field specific searches.
- Multiple bins for quick asset recall.
- Support for Finder/ Spotlight Comments, and other industry-wide standards.
- Open assets in external applications including Pro Tools, Digital Performer, etc.
- Quicktime movie video preview.
Metadata:
- Metadata batch-processing.
- Support for Finder/Spotlight comments.
- Support for ID3 tags, Vorbis Comments, FLAC Comments, BWAV, Soundminer and Quicktime User Data.
- All metadata viewable in the List view.
Playback:
- Preview process settings.
- Full playback control including scrubbing.
- Playback slider.
- Loop playback.
- Quicktime movie video preview.

System requirements:
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- 800 x 600 screen resolution.

Version restrictions:
- 15 days trial period.

Enhancements
- Added support for MPEG-1/2, Layer 2 audio in WAV/BWAV and Quicktime files - Added ID/Read support for MPEG-1/2, Layer 2 audio in WAV/BWAV and Quicktime files.
- Fixed bug with source files that have no extension - Fixed a bug where the last character of the filename would be cut off on export if the original file had no extension.
- Fixed bug with creating MPEG 4 Audio files - Fixed a bug involving writing audio packet info when creating MPEG 4 Audio files. The result of this bug would be error messages when playing back created MPEG 4 Audio files in the app.
- Updated MPEG 4 Audio file import - Made a change to more accurately determine the length of the audio in the file.
- Updated file reading support - Made a change for some file types to to remove errors displayed when reading a file when the file indicates a longer duration than the number of samples actually contained in it.
- Fixed a general conversion bug - Fixed a bug involving bounding sample counts when performing audio conversion. The result of this bug would be that when some created audio files using a packetized format when no sample rate conversion was needed and imported into iTunes, would show a length of only 1 second.
- Fixed ID3 Tag issues - Fixed an issue where text that could not be written out as ISO Latin 1 text is now correctly written out as Unicode text.
- Fixed an issue where text encoded in Unicode may not be read properly during import.
- Fixed a bug when reading split files of differing lengths - Fixed an issue where reading split files of differing lengths could cause a crash or other errant behavior.
- Fixed a bug when creating WAV/BWAV files and writing WAVE Info metadata.
- Fixed an issue where, in rare cases, the application would crash after writing WAVE Info metadata.
- General enhancements - This version contains several other fixes and enhancements providing greater stability and efficiency.

Requirements:
None

iTunes Library Manager 5.2.1 is developed to be an intuitive program with the ability to make backup copies of your iTunes Music Library database file and iTunes Preferences. This enables you to easily save multiple iTunes Library and Preferences configurations that can be retrieved and loaded at any time.