— music collection organizer software

A MusShell shell is a integrated combination of pictures, lyrics, and other information
about a CD or about any other series of songs. A shell often houses its own copy
of the music as well as the software for playing the music and for editing the shell itself.

MusShell can:

• Build original shells, suitable for burning onto CDs (complete with music).
• Adapt CDs created by other music-collection software into shells without re-burning the CDs.
• Link music that resides on a CD to pictures and information that reside on your fixed disk.
• Organize shells into libraries by themes and subthemes.
• Present your libraries in a special Music Explorer, where you can browse and can search by more
  than 50 predefined criteria, plus custom-defined search criteria of your own.
• Incorporate information from the Internet-based CDDB music database and from a local FreeDB.
• Browse and search in the local FreeDB.
• Build a soft shell for an audio CD straight from FreeDB without needing the audio CD itself.
• Add further information (such as pictures, lyrics, and even new music) to an existing shell at any time.
• Copy full information about an album or song from one shell to another.
• Export MP3 files, with meaningful filenames, to standard MP3 players.

Version News # 3.1.1

3.1.1 from 2005/03/01

   -  Bug fixes.
   -  Live update feature added.
   -  Using "Export" function, preparing the mp3 files for a portable MP3 player,
      there is a new possibility to export the .lrc files also.	


3.1.0 from 2004/07/05

   -  All the programs were redesigned.

   -  New site design: WEB designer Irena Shneurson, WEB Master Alex Andrienko,

   -  ON the MusShell site started a new Data Base of Audio CDs. The Data Base
      Browsing and searching are available. If you have MusShell installed,
      you can open the desired CD by single mouse click, and view all related
      to this Album information (except, of cause, audio itself): lyrics,
      tablatures, credits, discography, albums reviews, covers, pictures of
      artists. In the nearest future the "Buy now" button will take you possibility
      to purchase the CD.

   -  POrganizer - new Internet options: automatic searching of lyrics (improved),
      tablatures (printed music), credits, discography, albums reviews, covers,
      pictures of artists for the building Shell.

   -  MExp - new Internet options: automatic update of MusShell libraries with
      lyrics, tablatures, credits, discography, albums reviews, covers,
      pictures of artists.

   -  MusShell Navigator is replaced by MusShell Wizard, which makes it easy to use
      the numerous MusShell features.

   -  FreeDBExp - improved indexing, as a result it works mach faster.

3.0.0 from 2003/05/20

   -  New user friendly design of all the package programs.

   -  MExp works in two modes:
      Heap (traditional) mode - you can explore your mp3 files, play them,
      build play lists and quickly build simple Shells for getting all the
      advantages of MusShell interface and features;
      Shell mode - power management, searches, information propagation,
      and more...

   -  One touch music shell building and running from MP3 directory or play list.

   -  CDAss - a big number of new parameters and options.

   -  POrganizer - the internal file explorer enlarged and enhanced,
      with a preview possibility for text and picture files to be linked in
      Shells, new Internet options - automatic searching of lyrics for the
      building Shell.

   -  MusShell - enhanced fragments management; a fragment adjustment
      may be performed with a high (1 millisecond) accuracy.
      New "Viewing mode local" permits viewing of lyrics,
      fan and pictures in the Player page.

2.1.6 from 2002/09/25

   -  CDDB and FreeDB support added, for building audio CD shells.
      (FreeDB may be downloaded from http://www.freedb.org)

      Automatic audio CD recognition is now built into POrganizer.
      For any audio CD inserted into the CD drive, the base
      information search is performed in the local FreeDB database
      first (if one exists).  Then if necessary, and if a connection
      to the Internet exists, the search is performed in CDDB/CDDB2.

      Base information on a CD includes album name, artist, song title,
      and sometimes additional information as genre and year.

   -  The new program DBExp is the FreeDB Explorer.  You can use it to
      find information about a CD, and then (by pressing the “BUILD”
      button) you can build a soft shell for the CD without
      yet having a copy of the CD itself!

   -  Copying and propagating information is now easy in the Music
      Explorer.  You can copy and paste album information and
      song information from one shell into another.

   -  Presentation building is a new feature, allows you to construct
      an audiovisual program that can include songs, song fragments,
      pictures, and texts in a pre-specified sequence.

   -  MusShell’s remote control for WinAmp has additional buttons.

   -  Editing in the Organizer has been improved.


2.1.5 from 2001/08/28

   - Better cataloguing of shells (thanks to the new program Rcv):
        * multiple cataloguing
        * saving of cataloguing options

   - Improved and extended CDAss program (MusShell settings):
        * many options of the MusShell software may be viewed,
          changed, and saved

   - New function and button in Music Explorer:
        * “Adjust Shell to Audio CD” -
          You may have a MusShell audio CD shell, and have the
          corresponding CD, but find that when you insert the CD,
          the shell is not automatically retrieved.  The reason
          may be a CDDB key mismatch, particularly if your CD is
          a reprint manufactured by an obscure company or if it is a
          backup copy.  The “Adjust Shell to Audio CD”
          button is for informing MusShell which shell really
          corresponds to the CD.  Once informed, MusShell remembers.