Kleinvaag's PostAssistant (Freeware)

Updated  : December 11th 2002

 

This program is still in a beta-stage; please send Bug reports to postassistant@xs4all.nl

 

Description:

A small utility for all you posters out there, that creates a SFV-file, an info file (including track list) and a Winamp playlistfile all in once.

 

What's new?

 

PostAssistant v009

• fixed several minor bugs

• right-clicking a mp3-option removed (multiple selection of mp3's occasionally made the program crash)

• creation of sfv-file slightly faster

• more compatibility of different VBR standards. (--r3mix, alt-preset-standard, etc)

History:

 

PostAssistant v008

• the option to associate mp3’s with PostAssistant as well as folders

• the message box is gone, program exits when finished creating the files

• added codec-arguments field

• added par checkbox

• autodetect compilation disc and appropiate traklisting settings

• genre is now extracted from the id3-tag

• PostAssistant is now seen in the windows taskbar

• bitrate, stereo and frequency fields are not editable anymore. These are values extracted from the mp3-files. They are still editable in the edit-window

• postassistant.ini and screensettings.ini have been removed, settings are now saved in the registry

• 800x600 compatible, max newsgroups with this is 2, in the edit/preview-window more newsgroups can be added

• switch between full and compact mode (settings-menu in toolbar)

• the average bitrate is now also available in the main-window

• fixed : error when processing mp3pro encoded mp3, the program will read the tags of mp3pro encoded mp3's, but playing time, bitrate and frequency are inaccurate. Issued for future releases. Anyone who can give me details on how to determine when a mp3 is mp3pro-encoded please send me a mail

• fixed : overrflow error sometimes occurred in VBR encoded mp3's  which were longer then 12 minutes

• fixed : sometimes a lot o spaces where left in the creation of the nfo, sfv and m3u-files

• fixed : 800x600 compatibility

• known bug : rightclick multiple mp3-files does not work yet, issued for futere releases

PostAssistant v007

• 6 different newsgroups to select

• sizeable window for info preview/edit-window

• screen position and size are saved

• deleted message-box for created files (some found it annoying).

• fixed : sometimes the filenames held a lot of spaces

PostAssistant v006

• was only used for internal test-purposes.

PostAssistant v005

• added support for VBR-bitrates (average is calculated as well)

• now support for ID3-tags v1, v2.2 and v2.3

PostAssistant v004

• added url-field (for info on posted artist/album)

• added checkbox for covers to be found at http://www.cdcovers.cc

• rip date is now extracted from date of mp3 i.s.o current date

• %y = year has been added to file-naming options

PostAssistant v003

• splitted Encoder / Codec

• fixed : time of track (was 4:60 i.s.o. 4:00)

• fixed : removed discard & close from nfo-windows (was too confusing)

• fixed : with stretching window the contents will stretch as well

PostAssistant v002

• Multiple settings for Where, Crosspost, Label etc. will be available in drop down menu and new settings will be saved to and loaded from postassistant.ini

• Added fields: Postdate & Rip date

• Added Signature option (standard footer text at bottom of NFO-file)

• SFV creation is now a bit faster (removed redundant code)

• A slightly changed layout

• fixed : error where there were waves and mp3´s with the same filename in the folder

• fixed : configuration-file renamed from defaultnfo.txt to postassistant.ini

• fixed : support for ID3-Tag v1.2, I hope...    

PostAssistant v001

• by right clicking a folder in Windows Explorer you can select Postassistant

• new Layout

• fixed pitch font is now used, for alignment reasons

• extra fields - Label, ID, Crosspost

• variable Track listing

• variable Filename-settings

• by selecting a field to update, the complete text is pre-selected

• included in this Post

• gone : the remark-section

• fixed : in case of a cancel the first nfo-file wasn't deleted. It is now.

A brief manual:

00 - Right click a mp3 or folder and select PostAssistant, proceed to step 4

or

01 - Start PostAssistant

02 - Click 'Select Folder'

03 - Select a Folder by double-clicking !!

04 - Click 'Process Folder'

05 - Update Artist / Title / Year / Label / ID / URL, if necessary

06 - Select appropriate checkboxes.

07 - Update Ripper, Poster, Encoder, Codec, Arguments, Newsgroups, Signature, if necessary

08 - Fill in options for track list

• %1 = Song name

• %2 = Artist

• %3 = Title

• %4 = Artist is only printed if different tracks have different artists        

• %T = Track No

• %M = Time

• Any other character will be printed         

    Default = %t (%m) %4 - %1

    This results in “01 (4:45) Track title’ or in case of different artists  “01 (4:45) Artist - track title”

         

09 - Fill in options for Filename

• %2 = Artist

• %3 = Title

• %y = year

• Any other character will be printed         

Default = 00 - %Y - %2 - %3  this results in "00 - Year - Artist - Album name

    

10 - Select a combination of SFV, NFO & M3U.

11 - Click 'Create'.

 

A popup window will appear with the generated info-file.

You can make any changes you want.

 

12 - Click on 'Cancel' or 'Save and close'

 

13 - A SFV-file will now be generated (if checked).

     The SFV-file created will be compatible with QuickSFV, WinSFV and Leechassistant.

 

A progress bar will be shown and the requested files will be created.

The SFV-, NFO- and M3U-file will be created in the current folder.

Now you can get back to step 2 and process the next folder.

All appropriate fields/settings will be saved for next time in the windows registry.

You can stop the process any time by clicking the 'Exit' button.

 

For a visual manual click here

 

Download

The full version

PostAssistant v009 (2.9Mb) (freeware)

Installation Notes:

Run the Setup-file found in the zip-file.

PostAssistant will automatically execute after installation. Unfortunately, your current settings will be lost.

This for incompatiblity reasons with previous version of PostAssistant (sorry for the inconvienience)

This program works best with screen-resolution set to 1024 x 768 or higher.

The program will function with resolution set to 800x600 or higher.

PostAssistant will adjust to 800x600 resolution automatically, if necessary.

The settings can be changed manually in the settings-menu, located in the toolbar.

 

This readme-file can be located in Post Assistant’s program folder after installation.

 

Uninstall

To remove PostAssistant from your system do the following :

1 -     start PostAssistant and uncheck the folder-association options in the settings-menu.

2 -    delete the following key from the registry : "hkey_current_user\software\kleinvaag inc"

3 -    run the unistall option   

 

have fun with it,

 

Kleinvaag

 

Thanks to

Ferdinand, Ribor, Antrios, Saskia, Defender, Edwin, TheBaz,

BennyX, MracelF, Remmer, Cool and Batje4 for all the suggestions and the preliminary testing.