[Solved] Children-friendly interface for MP3 library ?

Hi there,
this is not really a problem posting but more a usage question.
My little-one (8 years old) likes to listen to audio plays a lot. Since I have stored nearly all of them on my PC as MP3 files and burning them as audio CDs is both a waste of CD-Rs as well as quite time intense I have come to the conclusion that a PC-based "MP3 station" for her might be the best approach for both giving her the option to listen to all her audio plays as well as saving dad from burning tons of MP3 files to CD-R
Similar to my music the audio plays are organized a folder structure like this:
Audioplay series -> episode
The audioplay itself consists either of one ore multiple MP3 files plus a playlist.m3u in each folder.
I am looking for some sort of fullscreen player which provides a similar library view like the video part of XBMC does. Something which simply allows to hop up and down through the folders of the MP3 audioplay library an only lists the M3U and MP3 files.
Since I mostly used SMPlayer, VLC and XMBC for my playbacks I have no experiences with other players.
Is there a media-player which is more geared towards such purposes ? May be Amarok ? I am also not shure how players similar to Songbird (which is Windows / Mac-only) fit into the equation.
Another possible problem: Some of those files might not have valid ID3 tags since I recorded a lot of old audioplays from tape. So relying on ID3 tags for playback is not very solid.
My little-one is well able to maneuver with a file manager but a simplified interface would be nice. Think about DAF rather than WAF
(DAF = daughter acceptance factor).
Thanks for any input !
-D$
P.S.: I am skilled enough to hack together some scripts if required and do not really rely on ready-to-use tools. So if anyone has a different idea how (e.g. having multiple website with links to each of the M3U files) I would be more than happy to hear them.
Last edited by Darksoul71 (2012-06-25 20:44:41)

Just throwing this out there, but Banshee/Exaile looks kinda like iTunes on windows, and SongBird for gnome looks a lot like iTunes for windows. For KDE amarok was really well laid out with lots of features, kinda reminded me of a supped up windows media player. and XMMs reminded me a lot of winamp. These of course are with the basic layouts.
Websites:
http://www.exaile.org/
http://banshee.fm/
http://amarok.kde.org/
http://legacy.xmms2.org/
They most likely offer good skins on their websites Also really like their lyrics plugin so you can view the lyrics while you listen to the song.
Another cool one to check out would be googles music player:
http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/
More available in wikki
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … io_players
Just my thoughts
-Jacob

Similar Messages

MP3-Library doesn't like some of MediaSource's ID3 t

Just a tip for MP3-Library users:
On rare occasions, MediaSource 3.30.2 will produce an ID3 tag that MP3-Library doesn't like. (This is pretty rare -- out of 45 tracks I updated the tags on, 6 did this.) This results in the file being displayed as corrupted. If you select "Analyze/Fix MP3," it finds a frame or two with random specifications at the very start of the file, followed by a single bad frame, and then all good frames.
If you check all availiable fix options (delete selected frames [check the junk and bad ones], delete garbage before st frame, delete garbage after last frame), it lops about 30 bytes off the end of the tag/header and takes a few good frames off the start of the file.
According to MP3Utility and EncSpot, there's nothing wrong with the files, and they play just fine in MediaSource, Winamp, and on the Zen. The header data that was destroyed doesn't affect the ID3 data. It only seems to have removed the Xing header. (No, I don't use Xing. LAME 3.97 alpha puts Xing-compatible headers on its VBR files.)
The following are the summary data that MP3Utility shows. This is from the original file, fresh out of LAME:
File size: 3,63,232 bytes
Offset to first frame header: 2,630 bytes
MPEG version .0; Layer III
Bitrate: VBR (Xing); Sample rate: 44,00 Hz
Channel mode: Joint stereo
Private: No; CRCs: No; Copyrighted: No
Original: No; Emphasis: None
Frame size: ,52 samples/frame
Frame length: 47 bytes/frame (unpadded)
Pad size: byte(s)
Estimated frames: 8,945
Estimated time: 3:54 (234 secs.)
This is after importing the file into the PC Music Library and clicking "Update Tag." I didn't modify anything, just told it to re-write the ID3 tag:
File size: 3,63,232 bytes
Offset to first frame header: 2,630 bytes
MPEG version .0; Layer III
Bitrate: VBR (Xing); Sample rate: 44,00 Hz
Channel mode: Joint stereo
Private: No; CRCs: No; Copyrighted: No
Original: No; Emphasis: None
Frame size: ,52 samples/frame
Frame length: 47 bytes/frame (unpadded)
Pad size: byte(s)
Estimated frames: 8,945
Estimated time: 3:54 (234 secs.)
And this is after MP3-Library "fixed" it:
File size: 3,629,325 bytes
Offset to first frame header: 2,600 bytes
MPEG version .0; Layer III
Bitrate: 224 kbps; Sample rate: 44,00 Hz
Channel mode: Joint stereo
Private: No; CRCs: No; Copyrighted: No
Original: No; Emphasis: None
Frame size: ,52 samples/frame
Frame length: 73 bytes/frame (unpadded)
Pad size: byte(s)
Estimated frames: 4,96
Estimated time: 2:0 (30 secs.)
No, MP3-Library DIDN'T chop 04 seconds off the file. The estimated frame count and length are WRONG because the Xing header was destroyed by MP3-Library. This header would normally tell MP3Utility how long the file really is, otherwise it takes the bitrate of the first frame and extrapolates that over the file length. (Without this header, many programs' progress sliders won't be as accurate.)
So, if MP3-Library tells you a file is corrupted after going through MediaSource and the file wasn't corrupted before, DON'T fix it. You'll only make things worse. I've never seen MediaSource or my Zen actually damage a file.
(At first, I told it to fix 'em. Now I'm going through and restoring the backups it made.)

i have used mp3-libary many times before because it said a large amount of my collection was corrupted. but it seams to be better.as i havent used media source to import them so i think they may have actually be corrupt. but interesting findings.

Build GUI as user friendly interface to jcard manager

hi im a newbie to java cards and doing my final project with java card. I am using gemxpresso rad 3 jcard manager. I am trying to make a new GUI (to perform authenticate-upload-install-changePIN-select- and send APDU function) as user friendly interface for gemplus jcard manager. The GUI will write to java card. can anyone help me please?? :)

thanks for the advice.. some people also give me the same advice. my question now is..how to install jcpsc 0.72 on windows platform? i am sorry if this question has been asked for million times..step by step plz... :) thanks so much

[solved] Arch linux access point with multiple interfaces for the NAT

Hi, I have a router running Arch linux. It is connected via LAN (let's call it eth0) to the internet. It has a second LAN interface, eth1, and a wireless interface in master mode, wlan0.
Now, Everything works perfectly except providing network connectivity on eth1 and wlan0 simultaneously. I followed the guide in the "Internet share" wiki article and use dnsmasq/hostapd for the AP. It appears as if all traffic from the router is sent to the wlan0 interface, even if it came in through eth1 (for example, dhcp requests). I cannot really find information how to solve this. The words "bonding" and "iptables" are floating around, but there is not really an easy to understand tutorial for this.
What do I need to do to use both the eth1 and wlan0 interface (for different clients!) on my router?
Best regards, and thank you in advance
Jan Oliver
/e: This seems to be my problem: http://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7000318 How do I solve this using the usual iptables? (The way described in the article doesn't work: "RTNETLINK answers: No such process" errors.)
Last edited by janoliver (2013-09-25 22:24:53)

Or you could bridge eth1 and wlan0, and make dnsmasq bind/listen on that bridge...

I have a large library that I ripped in AIFF using iTunes. I converted to Mp3 to save drive space, keeping the originals. I have a new computer and want to revert to my original files. iTunes sees the library but is looking for Mp3 files. Suggestions?

I have a large library that I ripped in AIFF using iTunes. I converted to Mp3 to save drive space, keeping the originals. I have a new computer and want to revert to my original files. iTunes sees the library but is looking for Mp3 files. Suggestions?

You're welcome.
For tips on logical organization within iTunes see my article on Grouping Tracks Into Albums.
tt2

Aperture (3.4.1) no longer opens and the following message appears: There was an error opening the database for the library "/ Users / Andrea / Pictures / Aperture 3 Library.aplibrary." How can I solve this problem? Thanks

I was using Aperture (3.4.1), when he appeared a notice that asked me to stop the Mac with the power button. When I restart Aperture no longer opens and the following message appears: There was an error opening the database for the library "/ Users / Andrea / Pictures / Aperture 3 Library.aplibrary."
How can I solve this problem?
Thanks

After a system crash your Aperture Library may be corrupted, because Aperture may not have been able to finish the ongoing database transactions.
Have you tried the Aperture Library First Aid Tools?
Aperture 3 User Manual: Repairing and Rebuilding Your Aperture Library
Try "Repair Database", and if this does not help: "Rebuild Database"
Regards
Léonie

[Request] Betty: Friendly English-like interface for your command line

Anyone with the capacities and interest to maintain Betty?
Betty is a friendly English-like interface for your command line.
She translates English-like phrases into commands in case you every run into situations like this.
This means you don't have to leave your command line to look up an obscure but useful command. Just ask Betty!
Discussion on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/ … x_command/
Source on Github: https://github.com/pickhardt/betty

I liked a lot of the ideas you posted. Though I have to disagree with the idea of having tablets being into the size range of over 12". You start getting larger than that and you may as well start using a laptop. On the flip side of that, I have to agree that there are too many of the 7" available, which are almost too small. The 8-10" tablets give you the portability and smaller size people want for stuffing into their bags, purses, etc. The larger tablets are getting into that bulky area and that defeats the purpose of the tablet to begin with. Unfortunately I find myself using e-books more than I intended, but I don't need a full, or larger than a full, sized sheet of paper. They get harder to handle, even with Lenovo 's great form design.
The only reason to have more than one tablet is if the developers can't come to terms and allow their products to be used across the board (talking of Amazon and Google here). I personally don't want to be carrying around more than one tablet and a phone. I want to simplify and streamline not add more bulk.
I loved that you pointed out that our voices will never replace our fingers. I don't like speaking to inanimate objects; too many experiences with automated phone services that did not end up well.
I congratulate Lenovo for their innovative design with the Yoga tablets.

A more successful experiment in creating compositable user interfaces for Config Dialogs

A couple weeks ago I posted an experiment in creating compositable user interfaces using transparent subpanels. The approach might best be described as, "It at least was notable for being novel."
Today, I'm posting another attempt, this one along more traditional lines, and far more successful. Particularly notable: this one can do all the arbitrary composition of the last one AND it solves the TAB order problem.
This solution uses a picture control and renders N copies of a control. When the user tabs to a control or moves the mouse over the control, a real control slides into that position to be able to catch the events (update mouse over draw state, highlight for keyboard focus, handle typing, etc). When the Value Change occurs, a master array of data is updated and the picture control is updated.
This is something that has been attempted in various forms in the past, but there are two aspects of this particular implementation that make it nice:
its programmatic interface for specifying the behavior of the various objects should make it fairly easy for a user of the framework to programmatically generate their dialogs
it handles the TAB problem without flickering, something I haven't seen in other attemps
This idea spawns out of conversation about the previous experiment -- thanks to those of you who posted on various forums, e-mailed me, or, in a couple cases, showed up at my desk. That last one is not something I'm encouraging unless you work at NI... just saying. :-)
Now, this experiement has already yeilded some interesting conversation. We note that as long as controls are instantiated independent of each other -- that is, no property of one control depends upon the property of another control -- this dialog system scales nicely. But in this experiment, I implemented Radio Buttons, which interact with each other -- when one is set True, the others go False. As soon as controls start interacting with each other (such as graying out one control when a checkbox is toggled, or having expandable sections, or really complex cases like updating a graph as some options change, like happens in some Express VI config dialogs) then we start needing ways to refer to the other controls. This rapidly moves us in one of two directions: naming controls or creating references. The naming approach is definitely my preference as it fits better with dataflow and I can do some interesting effects with breaking apart some of the tree. But all of this quickly starts sounding like "Please implement a XAML parser in LabVIEW." For those of you unfamiliar with XAML, in the world of UI design, it might very well be the coolest thing since sliced bread. A XAML string would indeed fit with dataflow, and we could start building that up. I hesitate to head down this road for two reasons. One, as many have noted, there's really not a good XML parsing library written in LabVIEW that can give me a useful DOM tree. Two, that's a huge project and my gut sense is that you'd have to complete a fairly large chunk of it before you'd start seeing any return on investment. But it is worth thinking about -- I might be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time. This code that I've posted today can at least get you started on the generation side if one of you decides to become industrious.
I'm turning my attention away from this project for now... coding in G is lots of fun, and I wish I could spend more days doing it, but this has been a side project and it's time to get back to my assigned projects in text programming. Building a powerful platform for automatic UI generation in LabVIEW would be really useful -- I see lots of requests for this sort of thing, and other languages are pulling ahead of us in this domain.
[UPDATE 5/17/2012 - There is an improved version.]
Solved!
Go to Solution.
Attachments:
ConfighThroughCtrlCreation.zip ‏558 KB

Elijah K wrote:
Thanks for posting this Aristos. I would normally be one of those to go bug you at your desk, but in case I'm not the only one with this question... which particular flickering problem are you referring to? The act of switching tabs? In all honesty, I've never noticed...
When you move controls around on the screen, normally you try to Defer Panel Updates while you do that. But Defer Panel Updates has an effect on control's abilities to catch certain mouse clicks, so when you're trying to move a control to catch the mouse, you have to work a lot without Defer Panel Updates, so if you're adjusting captions, etc, to match the new location, you can see flicker as properties adjust. You can move the control off-screen, as long as you have already updated the picture control to reflect the changes. It took a while to catch all the ways that the flickering can crop up. I think I got 'em all.
Attached are the VIs saved for LV 2009. Actually, they're saved for LV 8.6, but it doesn't work in 8.6 because of a bug in the picture control that existed back then.
Attachments:
ComposableUI_LV2009.zip ‏391 KB

Saving Media Kind, Position & Shuffling in ID3 Metadata for MP3 Audiobooks?

Hello, I have a problem saving "media kind" - audioboks as file metadata independent of iTunes.
I recently purchased an iPhone however I am pretty apathetic to iTunes - I use it as my only media player at the moment because of the iPhone, however I want my collection to work with whatever software I use now as well as whatever platform I use 10 years from now, hence my dependence on 3rd party tools to save metadata. iTunes has it's own nice little database but I do not want to be at the whim of this database everytime I want to transfer files to another computer, or in the event of a catastrophic data failure. I have already witnessed this with album art, where I add art in iTunes but it does not save the art in the actual mp3 file.
So I sorted my music collection using MB Picard, Tag&Rename, MediaMonkey and Evillyrics. It's all looking nice, with full ID3 metadata including genre and cover art. Now it's time to organise my collection of DRM-free Audiobooks which are currently in MP3 format.
Initially I looked into converting all the MP3s into AAC files, then into M4B, and I tried this method manually in iTunes as well as using various software, including one called MarkAble, which saves the chapter info, and does some other nice stuff. While this is one way of organising audiobooks, it is a time intensive method. In iTunes 8, with the new ability to select "Audiobook" as media kind, I can keep my files as MP3s and save some time and effort.
My problem lies in the fact that this new media kind field is not actually saved in the ID3 metadata. When I add an audiobook to iTunes and set the media kind to audiobook, if I then remove the files from my iTunes library, then add them in again, iTunes has forgotten that they were tagged as Audiobooks, and they are back in my main library with my music, and media kind is set back to music, with remember position and skip when shuffling also unticked.
Unfortunately, 3rd party tools are of little help here. Tag&Rename does have a music/video field where you can select Audiobook, however after tagging that, iTunes does not see these files as audiobook, so I assume "media kind" must be a non-standard field for iTunes, like how Apple used TPE2 band/orchestra as "Album Artist". Mediamonkey users have the same issue with no "media kind" field available, as described here: http://www.mediamonkey.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=41731
So can anyone help me - is there a way I can save the media kind, skip when shuffling and remember position information independent of iTunes?

With iTunes 8.x you have the option to tell iTunes to treat any audio file as an audiobook. Simply select the tracks, *Get Info.*, then on the options tab set *Media kind* to Audiobook. You can also set options to *Remember playback position* and *Skip when shuffling*.
Assuming, however, that the books consist of more than one file you may have problems if you plan to listen to them on an iPod. The Audiobooks feature was originally designed for books that have been stitched up into a single file and hasn't been updated to reflect the changes that now make multi-track audiobooks easy to work with in iTunes. The main issue is that the iPod lists all audiobook files by track title/chapter name so unless you rename every track using a scheme such as *Book Title, Chapter XX* the tracks will play out of sequence. There are tools for creating iPod-friendly audiobooks for which Aldo on Audiobooks is probably the best reference. Personally I don't bother with the extra effort and just have an "Audiobooks" playlist folder containing sub-folders for each author and within these playlists for each audiobook. Although I still mark the files as Audiobooks to keep them out of my main music section when it comes to the iPod I ignore it's Audiobooks feature and use my own playlists for access.
Note that I've used leading digits in the playlist names to arrange these in chronological rather than alphabetical order.
As Chris notes Media Kind, Remember Playback Position & Skip When Shuffling are not recorded in the tag and so forgotten if files are removed & reimported. Apple could have implemented these via custom fields as with their Compilation flag but have chosen not to do so. If you give all your audiobooks the genre "Audiobook" then it is fairly simple to create a smart playlist with the rules *Genre is "Audiobook"* AND *Playlist is not Audiobooks*. Any files that turn up in this playlist can then have their attributes adjusted.
tt2

Adaptation of LIFA (LabVIEW Interface For Arduino) to other Arduino compatible boards

Hello evryone,
I am trying to use a ''Sakura board", which is an Arduino compatible board, having similar programming as Arduino. This board is manufactured by Renesas; more specifications on it can be found on the following link: http://sakuraboard.net/gr-sakura_en.html
What I would like to know, is if the firmware used for LIFA to interface Arduino with labview, or the ChipKit firmaware, can be used to this kind of Arduino compatible boards.
My aim, is to use the Sakura Board for acquiring signals from various pins(Be it digital or analog), and setting other pins (Digital) parralelly, using labVIEW, as this is done using LIFA, or LabVIEW interface for ChiKit!!
Thanks in advance for your support.

I haven't had any experience with the Sakura board, so can only go on the information on the website.
I've used the Arduino LabVIEW interface previously, and it basically uses serial communications between the PC and the Arduino. This serial interface is provided by the on-board USB-serial converter (an ATMega8u2 running custom firmware).
From what I can tell about the Sakura, it appears as a storage device when plugging into a PC, and doesn't seem to have a USB to serial converter. If this is the case, then the LIFA toolkit won't work. That said, my understanding of the Sakura board may be incorrect (for example I'm unsure what operation modes the slide switch changes between). If you can confirm it has a USB-serial port then LIFA may work. I guess the key thing is that the serial port is required.
You may be able to use a software serial port (http://arduino.cc/en/Reference/SoftwareSerial) on the Sakura to communicate with a PC, though that would require a PC with a serial port, or an external USB-serial converter. This approach would also require you to modify the LIFA arduino code (located in vi.lib\LabVIEW Interface for Arduino\Firmware\LIFA_Base) to reference the software serial port. It's probably a long shot that this will work, as the software serial library has been written for AVR chips, making use of their specific internal timers.

Storage solutions for Aperture Library & vault??

My Aperture library has grown to over 400 GBs and I am concerned about storage as it grows larger week by week. I have been using two 500 GB firewire 800 drives, one for the library and one for vault. Today I purchased a 1 Terabyte drive for the library, it works well and I actually see a speed improvement. I will pick up another next week for the vault.
Aperture lumps all of the data in one folder therefore requiring the size of our hard drive to keep pace with the Library. I need a different solution than replacing firewire drives with larger capacity ones every three to six months.
My main requirements are speed and expandability. I do not want to keep several aperture libraries, to me this defeats the purpose of an image database.
I have heard the pros and cons of raid and I do not think it's the best solution for an Aperture based system. Sata sounds interesting and seems that it may become more standard. I have also read about using an out-dated mac as a server by installing several hard drives and connecting it to the workstation by gigabyte ethernet. I would like to have my library on a very fast connection, firewire is fine for the vault. I am wondering what others are doing in the same situation as mine and if you might have any advice.
With the purchase of the 1TB drives I figure that I will be fine until mid to late summer, by that time Apple will have their new desktop available which I plan to purchase. It might be best to see what the machine will or will not support. Any thoughts?........
G5 dual 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

As the previous poster said: this is an Apple problem that needs to be solved. I might add, it probably will be in the near future. So, you should try to scrape by for the next few months as best you can and wait and hope and pray for a solution from Apple.
With DVD and Firewire drives backing up your original you are well--probably over--backed up. One copy on DVD is more than sufficient for your originals. Make more backups of the Aperture library which includes your original file and your time consuming metadata and adjustments.
RAID 0 is risky because if a single drive goes then you loose everything! There are other RAID schemes that make your system more dependable. RAID 1 mirroring is safer but doesn't expand your storage capacity.
RAID 3 & 5 are both more dependable and give you bigger working volumes but there is a lot of processor work going on to calculate parity (error correcting and data recovery information) that is spread across several drives. If you use Mac OS X RAID or Soft RAID that processor power comes from you computer's CPU--which probably has enough work to do already without having to crunch numbers for every byte that goes to/from your hard-drive.
RAID 3 & 5 are good systems if you have hardware to to the parity calculation but they each require a minimum 4 drives to make a set--which you don't want to use as a boot drive. That means you would need 5 drives inside your G5 of a combination of internal and external drives.
A cleaner solution might be getting a Wiebe Tech Siver SATA V case and port multiplier card (about $1500 w/o drives). That will give you a good fast connection for 5 external hot-swappable drives. Then use Ben Long's library spanner to get you by until Apple comes to the rescue with a multiple drive library.

XIF Interface for Activities in CRM 5.0

Hi,
I am planning to use XIF interface for data load and on-going interface for CRM activities. I have extended Activity structure with some Z fields using EEWB and it generated all of the necessary structures (BDOCs etc.) When I go to BDFG and create a new message type(ZCRMXIF_ORDER_SAVE) as a copy of CRMXIF_ORDER_SAVE, it does not include those Z fields from EEWB in the IDOC segments. ( I think they are suppose to be in the segment E101CI_EEW_CUSTOMER_H). During the generation, it seems to be hitting a namespace violation. Is there a slick way of solving this issue without making a mod using the debugger as OSS notes say.
Regards

Hi Gurkan,
Did you check the note 613213.
Cheers
Binai

SCM Inbound Interfaces for 11i

Is there any SCM Inbound Interface for 11i for external non-Oracle systems to place a requsition or purchase order? if so, what protocol does it use and is this protocol standard for a 11i install?
This interface would be from PeopleSoft 8.47 not currently setup up to use BPEL.
Thanks in Advance

Hi,
As I understand, you have to map incoming message to same message structure of outbound side and then send it to two different receivers.
If this is correct, then you need not perform two message mappings. You need to design the scenario like a normal scenario in Integration Repository. However, in Integration Directory, you would need additional configuration to have two receivers for same message. This would be as follows:
1. Business System for receiver
2. CC for receiver
3. One Receiver Determination with two receivers configured. However, no condition specified for them.
4. Two interface determinations, one for each receiver.
5. Receiver agreements.
This configuration should solve your problem.
Thanks,
Bhavish

Do we require abstract interfaces for the procedure ?

hi
while going through the file to DB scenario by Mukeshlal Parida at:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/5474f19e-0701-0010-4eaa-97c4f78dbf9b , I had a doubt regardign as to why we need to create a abstract message interface for the procedure request and procedure response.Is it necessary to do so?mapping is already done b/w request and DB and DB-response to the final response.The ID part will call the stored procedure.Then where does the need to introduce 2 more abstract async message interface arise?
please try to clear this doubt so that i may understand the logic behind it.

Hi...
Find the below link.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.km.cm.docs/library/soa-middleware/soa-management/process-integration/step%20by%20step%20procedure%20to%20implement%20soap%20to%20jdbc%20scenario.pdf
In the above link it is showing Soap to JDBC Sceanrio which is synchronous. For JDBC, only simple table is used. Instead you can use the stored procedure.
For how to use stored prcodeure follow the below link
/people/sriram.vasudevan3/blog/2005/02/14/calling-stored-procs-in-maxdb-using-sap-xi
Regards,
Leela

HT3945 I get an "error opening the database for the library"/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary". What do I do Now?

I have updated my Aperture 3 and when I try to open it I get an error message; error opening the databese for the library"Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary". I have tried the Command/Option keys to get past the error but I can't. Does anyone have a recommendation or document to help me get Aperture working again? Thanks.

I have tried the Command/Option keys to get past the error but I can't.
Did you try the "Command/Option keys" when you were launching Aperture? Then try again, by holding down "Command/Option" while double clicking your library in the Pictures folder.
If this does not succeed, have a look at the permissions of your library package in the "Get Info" panel: select the Aperture Library package in the Finder and press cmd-I. If you see that you do not have read/write permissions, correct that and select the option to apply these permissions to the enclosed items.
If you still cannot open the library, launch Aperture with the "options-key" hold down and select to create a new Aperture Library from the pop-up menu. Hopefully this will enable you to launch Aperture again. Then try to import your old library into the new, empty library by using the "File -> Import -> Library/Project" menu command. If your library is large, this could take a long time, however.
Post back, if you this does not solve the problem.
Regards
Léonie

[Solved] Children-friendly interface for MP3 library ?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for