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SNOWBALL

Application:	Snowball 2.00
Current Build:	2.00.00.0240
Download:	Zipped Installation (3.16Mb)
Installation System Requirements:	Windows XP or Windows Vista

SUMMARY
Snowball is a music management application for massive collections of MP3 files (>50,000 tracks). It also allows you to move your albums and tracks around the Internet or a local network.

Snowball is free to download and distribute, and we provide email support. If you have any suggestions please use our Feedback Form or send us an email.

There is an online Snowball Manual that describes how to get started with Snowball, how to transfer music, and advanced methods of collection management.

If you want to use the network facility you can freely register for a Snowball-NET account.

SPECIFICATION

Snowball stores your MP3 files in an indexed folder structure. When you've finished using Snowball to sort your music you can access it using Windows Explorer or any music playing software.

Using the Snowball-NET facility, Snowball can connect to another Snowball anywhere on the Internet. Tracks and albums can be transferred over the Snowball-NET. Now you can hold your music collection on a computer at home and access it at work or on holiday.

Instead of playlists, Snowball lets you create virtual albums, for example "Bob's Favourite Coldplay tracks" and store this under "Coldplay" as if it was another one of their albums. Grouping tracks into virtual albums makes it easy to build a compilation and send it to your MP3 player. See Making a compilation album.

By checking every MP3 file before it is added to your collection, Snowball makes sure your collection contains only good quality tracks that will play.

Tracks and albums can be "shortcut", so they appear in more than one location in your collection. This is similar to the shortcut facility in Windows. Shortcutting reduces the number of duplicate tracks making your collection more compact. For example you might want to store a shortcut to the album "The Best of Sting and The Police" under both "Sting" and "The Police".

For large-scale synchronization of music collections, there is a "Swap-Doc" facility which automates the process of copying every track in another music collection into your music collection that you don't have, or that is of better quality. Swap-Docs can be transferred as email attachments. See Swap-Docs.

Tracks can be grouped into clusters, for example, "Classical", "Comedy" and "Not Heard Yet". So if you wanted to tidy up your classical albums, enable the filter for the "Classical" cluster and the workspace shows only your classical music. When you are finished, disable the cluster filter, and the workspace shows all of your collection again.

UPDATES

BUILD	DATE	CHANGES AND BUG FIXES
232	2-SEPT-2009	Button to skip matching similar names when absorbing new tracks. A new track name option to remove text from groups of track names, for example, removing the word "(live)" from all of the track names in an album. For track names in the format "AAAA - BBBB.mp3", the AAAA is now suggested as a possible artist or album name, for example, "Coldplay - Parachutes.mp3", the word "Coldplay" is suggested as a possible artist name.
234	21-AUG-2009	Processing a Swap-Docs-Request now uses the Track Export Out facility to copy tracks to a target location.
236	12-AUG-2009	The date a file was added to a collection is now included in the SwapDoc. Users can restrict views of other collections to what's been added since they last looked. Fixed display of filepath in Track Adder MP3 Clinic window.
240	13-MAR-2010	Playlist panel removed from application. Playback facility removed from track editing forms. Updated Snowball-NET interface to work with PHP website. Display of Snowball-NET handle in title bar.

If you want to request a change, use the Feedback Form.

INSTALLATION

zip

Snowball 2.00 (3.16Mb)

Download the zipped installation, expand both files to an empty folder and run the setup.exe from your hard disk. This application includes an automatic upgrade facility. To uninstall, use the Add/Remove Program facility in your Control Panel.

The installation requires the Microsoft .NET Framework to be installed. In most cases you will already have this on your system.

SOFTWARE SUPPORT
All users of Broccoli products are entitled to email support for both licensed and freeware products. The Product Report Form is provided for reporting minor bugs and requests for enhancements. For other support issues, please contact us by email.

Software support: support@broccoliproducts.com

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