MIDI File Organzier/Manager?

Hi,

I'm trying to find a specific type of software for managing and searching for (without using Windows Explorer, Windows Search or other desktop search software) my 15,000 midi files.

My problem with other desktop search software for Windows, is that the results return non MIDI and cakewalk files, and even has this problem when specifying exclusions/inclusions which are "supposed" to limit the results.

Have looked on and off for 15 years now online and was wondering if anything is out that's new.

Have done some half hearted searches with Google but haven't seem anything specific and don't want to invest in yet another desktop search utility that makes it so difficult to wrangle the "midi file only" results, even when it see's dupe names, say like in an MP3 file of a song of the same name. My experience (because I also have 30k MP3 files) is the search parameters, again, in the other software I've tried, doesn't filter things out correctly, even when specifying extensions.

Thanks.

Jerry

Thanks.

As I stated above, Windows Explorer has problems for this. It's very slow and limited in it's parameter choices.

I have 3 internal and several external hard drives connected with backups, and by limiting what drives are searched, this makes Explorer even slower it seems. I actually have double the amount of midi files (30k as I just rechecked), and Explorer has been searching since before I started typing this reply and is still going.

Thanks Susan, I'll do that right now.

Ok, I'll let you know.

After I downloaded it, I took the tour of the program on the website and it looks like exactly what I need.

I'm in the middle of mixing a project now, but I will get to it soon.

Take care.

Oh yeah, nice doggy (I've got a 2 year old black Lab who always ruins my vocal takes)

Jerry

Thanks, I'll take a look at EZPlayer Pro too.

Jerry

Thanks Susan,

Sounds like I should use both. I'll check it.

Jerry

I am attempting to organize my midi drum library, and after checking out a few things I decided to go with EZ Player Pro because (1) I got a free copy of EZPlayer Pro when I purchased SD2 (love 'em freebies!), and (2) on the surface it looked like it would do most of what I wanted to do.  The thing I like about EZPlayer Pro is that it will "translate"  midi grooves from, say, Superior Drummer 2, to BFD, General MIDI to Steven Slate SSD 4, etc.  It's not necessarily for the faint of heart, but if you dig in and figure it out there are benefits to be had.
 
Susan:  I tried to access the link you posted for MIDIcat but Norton Antivirus immediately popped up with messages about how this site is some sort of security risk and to proceed with caution ... anyone else have this problem?  I have gotten similar messages about sites that I believe to be safe, but I still avoid suspicious sites unless I can somehow confirm that they are safe.

+1 for EZ Payer Pro. You can build your library any way you want it if you just pay attention to how it does things. I have all my Groove Monkey, LoopLoft, Addictive Drums, Studio Drummer and Abbey Rd, Prosonic and of course Toontrack in there and with the "map wrap" thingy it works great. Forgot Odd Grooves and a few others. I even made a parallel library. If I click on "Styles" I have all my Funk or Blues or what ever together in files. So I can open up a folder and the genre is there no matter the manufacturer. It took some work but I love it and am glad I did it. If I build my drum part in EZ Player first and then drag to Sonar I can always click on a block and have it show up in the browser so I know where it came from and that is very handy. I am hoping a new EZ Player Pro comes out soon with the EZ Drummer search features in it. I think it's one of the most under rated plugins out there. It is showing it's age but I still use it all the time.

Thanks for posting these. I too have been looking for something to arrange and sort midi files. :)

TerraSin
Holy cow, this EZ Player will map general midi files to Addictive Drums???
 
Dumb question before I buy it. When was the last time it was updated?

January, 2015
 
One note: it installs as a 32- or 64-bit VST2 .dll file. If you want to run it standalone (doh), you need a host, something like SAVIHost.

Latest EZ Player Pro was Nov 1, 2015. I reinstalled it on Jan 2016 when I did a clean reinstall so it must have worked on Windows 10 with out an update for a few months. Here is part 1 of 2 videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrySmLXnDEY
This is an Obedia tut on setting up in Sonar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GovJ_dOnfDs

Solo has no value for you if you have no Toontrack samplers. You can't open up Superior stand alone with out SOLO.

Picked up EZ Player yesterday for $25 from someone on KVR. :)