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Overview
AlternaTron is an application that lets you control your AudioTron from your Mac or Windows machine, and gives you lots of flexibility to find tracks and manage your playlist.
Some of the features in AlternaTron include:
- Client-side storage of your track information, allowing lightning-quick searches of your tracks to find exactly what you're looking for. Hierarchal lists of your tracks are organized by Artist, Title, and Genre information.
- Control over your AudioTron functions, including Play, Pause, Stop, Next/Previous Track, Mute, Random, and Repeat, and also re-positioning within a playing song, and volume control.
- Ability to build a playlist a track at a time, by album, artist, or whatever you choose.
- Displays the cover art of the track that is playing (from your collection of cover art).
- Create a Table of Contents file to speed startup of your AudioTron after a power-down, or export your track listings to a tab-delimited file for catalogging.
- Ability to rate tracks, and mark problem tracks so you can find them later for re-encoding!
- Lists your .m3u playlists, and easily send them to the AudioTron. Also, create and store your own playlists within AlternaTron.
- Also keeps track of your TurtleRadio stations.
- It's Free!
AlternaTron - AlternaTron is available for both MacOS 8/9 and Windows. A MacOS X version will be made available soon and will be fully backwards compatible.
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New In AlternaTron v0.9.7
- Supports multiple AudioTron devices.
- Playlist management: Add, insert, remove, and reorder tracks in your playlist.
- Improved Cover Art management, including the ability to retrieve cover art from an ID3v2 tag.
- New Setup Wizard
- Search Albums by first letter
- New buttons replace old complicated key combinations
New In AlternaTron v0.9.5
- Power Search: In the Track View, you can search for text in the Title, Artist, or Album field of any track in seconds.
- Album View: Scan through your music library by Album, displaying album cover art. A nice way to view your music collection.
- Speed Improvements: Adding tracks to the AudioTron playlist has been sped up tremendously. Add hundreds of tracks in just a few seconds!
- PlayList saving: Save your playlists to .m3u files or store them within AlternaTron. Either way, your playlists are loaded quickly!
AlternaTron Program Notes
- If you're upgrading from a previous version of AlternaTron, simply copy your data files (the .4DD and .4DR files) into the newly installed folder and delete the old folder. (Upgrading to 0.95 requires you to re-synchronize your tracks in order to use the Album view)
- If you had a cover art directory setup in previous versions, go into Setup and use "Import Cover Art" to bring all those files into the data file.
- For best operation, you will need to have access to at least one of your music share directories from the computer running AlternaTron. Use this for defining the PlayList location. It is important to set this up, even if you're not planning on creating playlists, as AlternaTron uses a temporary playlist for many operations (this file will be called "alternatron_temp.m3u").
- If you get a "Plugin Method cannot be executed" error, check to make sure you have the entire zip file decompressed. There should be a number of files, plus a 4DX directory in the same directory as the application (Mac4DX on the Mac side, Win4DX for Windows).
- Any time you add new files to the AudioTron's recognized shares, you'll need to select "Synchronize" before they'll show up in AlternaTron's library.
- Cover Art display requires QuickTime, which can be found at http://www.apple.com/quicktime.
- Please send any feedback, requests, or bug reports to justins1@leavensfamily.com
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