Wot y'all using for SFX database?

jahtao · 18th March 2007, 05:27 PM

We have a mini app built into Microsoft Access, (files on a SME Linux RAID), inconjunction with our SADiE systems.

Y'all PT foks using... errm... digibase? Anyone mind explaining how it works, my web serches have yielded little info.

Be well,
Matt

iamstudios · 18th March 2007, 05:36 PM

Check out Soundminer (www.soundminer.com). It's probably the best SFX database app currently available. Also great support team. Soon version 4 will be released; there will be some promising new features...

Our check out Gallery's mTools (www.gallery.co.uk).

Both apps can be used with Protools, and work way better than Digibase..

cheers

Barnier

georgia · 18th March 2007, 06:43 PM

I use the network version of soundminer. We have 4 LE systems and 2 MIX+ systems sharing the database...

cheers
geo

starcrash13 · 18th March 2007, 06:47 PM

Soundminer

jahtao · 18th March 2007, 08:48 PM

Muchos gracias.

Soundminer looks badass. Anyone care to explain how digibase lacks? Is it just the network thing?

darkwater · 18th March 2007, 09:23 PM

SM here, too.

Henchman · 18th March 2007, 09:34 PM

Basehead.
Cost effective and it rocks.

octatonic · 18th March 2007, 09:39 PM

Library Monkey.

It rocks.

introvert · 18th March 2007, 10:09 PM

FileMaker Pro. Rolled it myself.

soundboy · 19th March 2007, 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jahtao

Muchos gracias.

Soundminer looks badass. Anyone care to explain how digibase lacks? Is it just the network thing?

I asked this same question on another board and got a lot of great answers. What is the etiquette regarding sending people to another board to do a search?

jahtao · 19th March 2007, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soundboy

I asked this same question on another board and got a lot of great answers. What is the etiquette regarding sending people to another board to do a search?

Hi Soundboy

Post a link?

Thanks,
Matt

soundfx · 19th March 2007, 02:37 PM

Netmix here. Better than MTools, which I was using before, but I'm guessing Soundminer is even a step-above, based on its popularity.

soundboy · 19th March 2007, 04:45 PM

Here is the link

http://duc.digidesign.com/showflat.p...v=#Post1087302

Hope it helps

dubold · 19th March 2007, 09:21 PM

i'm also using soundminer. it's been incredibly useful. We even went so far as to create databases for all our stock music and enter that as well - really streamlined the searches for elements.

TLS · 19th March 2007, 10:37 PM

Another +1 for Basehead - great price, great service, great program!
http://www.baseheadinc.com

Berolzheimer · 19th March 2007, 11:47 PM

I've used Sound Miner, Netmix & the workspace window (digibase), could gat by with any of them but Soundminer's certainly my preference, followed by Netmix & then digibase.

Mydog_Nixon · 20th March 2007, 12:42 AM

I use soundminer as well.

jetplane666666 · 20th March 2007, 06:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by iamstudios

Both apps can be used with Protools, and work way better than Digibase..

cheers

Barnier

Ok, I guess I'm the only guy here who uses Digibase. What is Digibase missing that these other applications have?

jahtao · 20th March 2007, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jetplane666666

Ok, I guess I'm the only guy here who uses Digibase. What is Digibase missing that these other applications have?

Yo yo jetplane, thanks to soundboy for this (from the DUC):

------------------------------

Ever tried to audition multi-channel split-files in Digibase? .....It´s not possible

Ever tried to control the playback volume when auditioning from DigiBase?....not possible

Ever tried to audition your library with your PT-Session interlocked in sync?

Ever checked if the long descriptions show up in Digibase when dragging a sound from iTunes to PT?

Ever tried to preview plug-ins before spotting your sound with or without the effect to a track?

Ever tried to audition your MS-Stereo sounds in L/R-Stereo and then decide if you want to spot them as L/R or discrete MS?

Ever wanted to spot just a single channel of an embedded multi-channel sound to PT?

Ever wanted to sum your stereo-sound to mono when spotting?

Ever tried to batch rename meta-data to maintain your library in Digibase?

Ever tried to share your libraries over a network? Play them back from one central server?

I could go on but so far for just a few examples.

-----------------------------

Thanks soundboy

charleslee · 22nd March 2007, 03:30 AM

Hi mates,

hope this is related .. I'm trying to digitise our licensed Music to a server (PC) to be shared among our editors too, and maybe a limited access (ie. read only) for producers / directors to audition the tracks from a networked PC.

Our yearly license only give us about 100 CDs, and with some buy-out titles, i think physically digitising the CDs could be easily done by one person (intern?) within a week or two.

The only issue is, cataloging, naming and grouping the tracks to the correct Genres and moods.

is there a CD ripping app that will allow us to define the filenames of the ripped AIFs? ie. CD1234_t1_songname.AIF, whereby "CD1234" can be predefined by us prior to ripping, and then "t#" is automatically generated according to track number, and "songname" comes from CDDB database??

I am hoping to do this cheap (free), so I thought of using iTunes.

Anybody doing this too? I'm just wondering do i need to create a playlist from the server when i digitise the CDs.

Most of the recent library music's tracknames could be grabbed from CDDB, so I'm just wondering if it is a tedious task to enter composer name, publisher info, labels so that filling up music cue sheets would not take a whole day hunting for CDs and sleeves.

Also, what about Genres, and other infos to let the producers / directors look for their desired tracks easily?

Any tips?

Thanks!!
Regards,
[Charles]

Professorbadguy · 13th June 2008, 08:42 PM

is there somewhere i could go to find like a comparison of soundminer to netmix, like a list of differences or pros and cons?

Jesse Peterson · 14th June 2008, 01:46 AM

+1 soundminer
They also make a program called ripper which will automatically embed published metadata into your ripped audio files when importing from CD's. Big time saver.

Another handy function in SM is the backup feature. Let's say you go shoot, edit and bounce and whole set of custom stuff.. then you manually add search data and descriptions for each one. You can click "backup" and all the info in your database will then be embedded into the audio file. Really great if you ever have a crash or database problem.

I havn't used any other DB software, but I'm not looking for anything else either. All bases covered. Network, password protection, instantaneous returns, spot or drag and drop to timeline. Also has a really smart search engine.
+1
+1

oldsoulsound · 14th June 2008, 03:33 AM

Netmix

Creative Network Design

jacobfarron · 14th June 2008, 03:34 AM

I'm updating SFX to soundminer. But my music has a searchable database from Premiere Tracks on it's own hard drive. It's not a bad system, but if you don't license any music for a while they call and call and call. I wouldn't recommend them.

**Geert van den Berg** · 14th June 2008, 10:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jahtao

Yo yo jetplane, thanks to soundboy for this (from the DUC):

------------------------------
Ever tried to control the playback volume when auditioning from DigiBase?....not possible

I think this is possible now, its controlled via the audition output, if you'd route digibase to for example output 3-4 and you make a masterfader in your session for it, you can control the level with that. Or just use the master of output 1-2...

ohad · 14th June 2008, 10:32 AM

AUDIO FINDER IS GREAT

sjambek · 16th June 2008, 03:42 PM

filemaker pro

very nice

imgoinmad · 17th June 2008, 04:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by charleslee

Hi mates,

hope this is related .. I'm trying to digitise our licensed Music to a server (PC) to be shared among our editors too, and maybe a limited access (ie. read only) for producers / directors to audition the tracks from a networked PC.

Our yearly license only give us about 100 CDs, and with some buy-out titles, i think physically digitising the CDs could be easily done by one person (intern?) within a week or two.

The only issue is, cataloging, naming and grouping the tracks to the correct Genres and moods.

is there a CD ripping app that will allow us to define the filenames of the ripped AIFs? ie. CD1234_t1_songname.AIF, whereby "CD1234" can be predefined by us prior to ripping, and then "t#" is automatically generated according to track number, and "songname" comes from CDDB database??

I am hoping to do this cheap (free), so I thought of using iTunes.

Anybody doing this too? I'm just wondering do i need to create a playlist from the server when i digitise the CDs.

Most of the recent library music's tracknames could be grabbed from CDDB, so I'm just wondering if it is a tedious task to enter composer name, publisher info, labels so that filling up music cue sheets would not take a whole day hunting for CDs and sleeves.

Also, what about Genres, and other infos to let the producers / directors look for their desired tracks easily?

Any tips?

Thanks!!
Regards,
[Charles]

Hi Charles, i do exactly that. I've taken my SFX cds and ripped them to .aif format and store them on hard drive. I used iTunes to rip the discs using the CDDB titles and track names. Sometimes when using iTunes if you have a multi-disc set, disc one might come out with a different title than disc 2 or 3...since CDDB is user submitted, sometimes you're getting data submitted by a different person so you have to watch and sometimes update all tracks on a disc so they come out how you want them. I generally will allow the titles to import and then i make changes to my liking before i import them (IE i might add specific keyworks to the track titles before importing them) For example a disc of ambiences might come out with track titles similar to "city park distant traffice" and I might add to that title "birds pedestrians" and then fix the spelling of "traffic" before my import.

I then use the 'advanced search' in finder to allow multiple lines of title search so i can search files on a specific drive where the file is music and the title contains "crowd", "Large", etc etc

I also use Audio Ease's Snapper (great inexpensive utility) which allows me fast previews and fast exportation to protools, either direct to track or to the regions list 'bin'.

Overall it's low cost, extremely effective and more than anything, it's FAST. Using the digibase or workspace search will drive you nuts with it's clunkiness and slow functionality. I get *way* more done in less time using this method.

Phil

danijel · 26th June 2008, 03:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Henchman

Basehead.
Cost effective and it rocks.

Quote:

Originally Posted by TLS

Another +1 for Basehead - great price, great service, great program!
BaseHead Inc.

Just for the reference, I want to mention Injector (made by the Basehead people), which is a unique app - it will inject BWAV metadata & rename your already-ripped wavs, so no need for re-ripping! It does this based on it's own database which contains most (if not all) Hollywood Edge & Sound Ideas libraries. It also rips CDs, BTW.

Till · 16th September 2008, 03:22 PM

Has anyone here ever worked with Sonoma.com 's "Total Library Solution" (TLS) application? It sounds like it has all the features that Netmix and Soundminer also have... I wonder how it compares in real life to the other two major SFX library applications Netmix and Soundminer?

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18th March 2007, 05:27 PM	#1
jahtao Gear addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 356	Wot y'all using for SFX database? We have a mini app built into Microsoft Access, (files on a SME Linux RAID), inconjunction with our SADiE systems. Y'all PT foks using... errm... digibase? Anyone mind explaining how it works, my web serches have yielded little info. Be well, Matt

18th March 2007, 05:36 PM	#2
iamstudios Gear interested Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Netherlands Posts: 20	Check out Soundminer (www.soundminer.com). It's probably the best SFX database app currently available. Also great support team. Soon version 4 will be released; there will be some promising new features... Our check out Gallery's mTools (www.gallery.co.uk). Both apps can be used with Protools, and work way better than Digibase.. cheers Barnier __________________ www.iam-studios.nl audio post production . music composition . sound design

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18th March 2007, 08:48 PM	#5
jahtao Gear addict Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 356	Muchos gracias. Soundminer looks badass. Anyone care to explain how digibase lacks? Is it just the network thing?

18th March 2007, 09:23 PM	#6
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18th March 2007, 09:34 PM	#7
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18th March 2007, 09:39 PM	#8
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18th March 2007, 10:09 PM	#9
introvert Gear maniac Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Dallas, Tx Posts: 259	FileMaker Pro. Rolled it myself.

19th March 2007, 02:37 PM	#12
soundfx Gear nut Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 131	Netmix here. Better than MTools, which I was using before, but I'm guessing Soundminer is even a step-above, based on its popularity.

19th March 2007, 04:45 PM	#13
soundboy Gear maniac Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 251	Here is the link http://duc.digidesign.com/showflat.p...v=#Post1087302 Hope it helps __________________ Charles Dayton, C.A.S. Twisted Avocado Studios

19th March 2007, 09:21 PM	#14
dubold Gear interested Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 14	i'm also using soundminer. it's been incredibly useful. We even went so far as to create databases for all our stock music and enter that as well - really streamlined the searches for elements.

19th March 2007, 10:37 PM	#15
TLS Gear Head Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 45	Another +1 for Basehead - great price, great service, great program! http://www.baseheadinc.com

19th March 2007, 11:47 PM	#16
Berolzheimer Lives for gear Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: El Lay Posts: 1,979	I've used Sound Miner, Netmix & the workspace window (digibase), could gat by with any of them but Soundminer's certainly my preference, followed by Netmix & then digibase. __________________ Purveyor of fine sounds since 1961. My very incomplete IMDB list: My very incomplete IMDB list I'm all ears.

20th March 2007, 12:42 AM	#17
Mydog_Nixon Gear nut Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 131	I use soundminer as well.

22nd March 2007, 03:30 AM	#20
charleslee Gear maniac Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Singapore Posts: 197	Music Library Management Hi mates, hope this is related .. I'm trying to digitise our licensed Music to a server (PC) to be shared among our editors too, and maybe a limited access (ie. read only) for producers / directors to audition the tracks from a networked PC. Our yearly license only give us about 100 CDs, and with some buy-out titles, i think physically digitising the CDs could be easily done by one person (intern?) within a week or two. The only issue is, cataloging, naming and grouping the tracks to the correct Genres and moods. is there a CD ripping app that will allow us to define the filenames of the ripped AIFs? ie. CD1234_t1_songname.AIF, whereby "CD1234" can be predefined by us prior to ripping, and then "t#" is automatically generated according to track number, and "songname" comes from CDDB database?? I am hoping to do this cheap (free), so I thought of using iTunes. Anybody doing this too? I'm just wondering do i need to create a playlist from the server when i digitise the CDs. Most of the recent library music's tracknames could be grabbed from CDDB, so I'm just wondering if it is a tedious task to enter composer name, publisher info, labels so that filling up music cue sheets would not take a whole day hunting for CDs and sleeves. Also, what about Genres, and other infos to let the producers / directors look for their desired tracks easily? Any tips? Thanks!! Regards, [Charles] __________________ www.tworooms.com Last edited by charleslee; 22nd March 2007 at 03:45 AM.. Reason: forgot to add something..

13th June 2008, 08:42 PM	#21
Professorbadguy Gear interested Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 6	is there somewhere i could go to find like a comparison of soundminer to netmix, like a list of differences or pros and cons?

14th June 2008, 01:46 AM	#22
Jesse Peterson Gear nut Join Date: May 2008 Location: New York City Posts: 131	+1 soundminer They also make a program called ripper which will automatically embed published metadata into your ripped audio files when importing from CD's. Big time saver. Another handy function in SM is the backup feature. Let's say you go shoot, edit and bounce and whole set of custom stuff.. then you manually add search data and descriptions for each one. You can click "backup" and all the info in your database will then be embedded into the audio file. Really great if you ever have a crash or database problem. I havn't used any other DB software, but I'm not looking for anything else either. All bases covered. Network, password protection, instantaneous returns, spot or drag and drop to timeline. Also has a really smart search engine. +1 +1

14th June 2008, 03:33 AM	#23
oldsoulsound Gear interested Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: New York Posts: 15	Netmix Creative Network Design __________________ Jeffrey Lonigro www.oldsoulsound.com

14th June 2008, 03:34 AM	#24
jacobfarron Gear maniac Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 278	I'm updating SFX to soundminer. But my music has a searchable database from Premiere Tracks on it's own hard drive. It's not a bad system, but if you don't license any music for a while they call and call and call. I wouldn't recommend them.

14th June 2008, 10:32 AM	#26
ohad Gear Head Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 72	AUDIO FINDER IS GREAT

16th June 2008, 03:42 PM	#27
sjambek Gear interested Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1	filemaker pro very nice

16th September 2008, 03:22 PM	#30
Till Gear interested Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Cologne, Germany Posts: 4	Has anyone here ever worked with Sonoma.com 's "Total Library Solution" (TLS) application? It sounds like it has all the features that Netmix and Soundminer also have... I wonder how it compares in real life to the other two major SFX library applications Netmix and Soundminer?