MP3 Selector
Overview
We found a cool gadget called the vr3 "mp3 fm modulator".
It is a small device which plugs into your car's 12 volt receptacle, and incorporates a USB slot which connects to any flash memory drive up to 512MB. The unit has a built in MP3 player and FM radio transmitter. It can play the MP3 files which are stored in the flash drive, and you hear the sound over your car's built-in radio speakers. It works quite well, but we found that the unit doesn't have a "shuffle play" feature which will vary the order of the songs played.
That is why we wrote this little utility to help you change the order in which the songs are played, you can manually order them, or use the "randomize" function. Re-writing the files on the flash memory drive in a new order causes the vr3 device to respect this new order during playback.
You can save your lists of files and reload them on command. This way you can keep different lists of music depending upon your taste. For example, you might wish to keep lists of songs by your favorite artist, or genre (disco, hip-hop,classical,etc).
Also when you have grown tired of listening to the same songs after a period of time, merely, use the "randomize" function to effectively "shuffle" them into an entirely new order which will delight you once again.
Quick Start Guide
- If this is your first time using the software, then start by clicking the little icon in the "input path" area of the screen which is in the upper left quadrant.
- Browse for the location of your music files (most likely with file extension of .MP3).
- Click the "OK" button on the "Browse for Folder" dialog box.
- Click the "Get files" button. This will load the names of all music files found in this folder into the left side "source" box.
- Select which files you would like to load into the right side "destination" box by either double clicking, or by highlighting the file and using the large "arrow" buttons in the middle of the screen. If you want to select them all, you can use the menu option Edit ->Select All. You can also multi-select by holding down the Ctrl key on the keyboard as you click each file.
- If you wish to listen to a particular song, right click the file and select "Play". This feature will only work if you have previously installed a software application which is capable of playing the music file selected. Generally "Windows Media Player" is the default application which will play these types of files.
- You can reorder the files in the destination box by highlighting an entry and using the up and down arrow buttons on the far right. You can also randomize the order of the files by selecting a group (or all) and then right clicking, and selecting the option "Randomize Order".
- Now select an output path (which is usually located on your MP3 player or Flash "Thumb drive" by clicking the small icon just to the left of the "Copy files" button.
- When you have finished selecting the output path and verified that there is sufficient free space to hold the files you have selected, click the "Copy files" button.
- This will copy all the files in the right destination box, in the order listed, to the destination folder.
That's all there is to it!
Have fun, and check the website for updates and other useful software programs coming soon!
