What a bodacious day today - actually, yesterday now - has been! I was up at oh-dark-thirty working on LIDA upgrades, and by midmorning I had posted an update. But of course, that wasn't enough, so I kept going and kept going, feeling like the Everready bunny, until...

One of the biggest things standing in the way of a person or organization using LIDA is how daunted they feel at the prospect of typing all their library's listings into the system. Two people I corresponded with today told me they have 7,000 and 20,000 titles in...

A day or so ago, I was looking at importing some information into LIDA from someone's CSV file, and saw a field they had that we didn't have in LIDA - the Price of the chart. This is important information for insurance purposes, because it, along with the date of...

I got a call this morning (New Year's Eve day, 2019) from Trevor, who is the person who caused me to pull the trigger on building LIDA. All of us should be offering up a round of applause to Trevor for getting this whole LIDA ball rolling. Trevor told me he had just...

I must apologize for not making this clear before. It is perfectly OKAY to enter your own dummy records into the alpha or beta versions of LIDA, just to play around with them and get the feel for entering data. THE CAUTION is that you might lose that data in a future...

As we continue to develop LIDA, we will continue to think of new features we can add, either to improve the functionality of this program, or to make it easier for the users to operate. I woke up this morning thinking of a new feature that will greatly improve the...

One of the essential steps to preparing LIDA for Beta Testing is to package everything needed into an installer file, usually called a Setup.exe file. In researching which installer builder software was available, I was beginning to get depressed, because in the first...

Yesterday, I spent a number of hours coding the routine to force the DURATION of a library holding into a searchable format - in this case hh:mm:ss, then I spent more time using the same forced format whenever the user queried the Duration. It was important to have...

One of the critical pieces of information about a piece of music in a music library is the duration, or about how long does it take to play this piece? When planning a concert, music directors will often want to know this information, because a piece that takes 15 or...

While we are still working on the Query Results screen of LIDA, and deciding what fields to include there, sometime in the next week we also need to decide what information to include on the PRINTABLE version of the Query Results. BACKGROUND: One of the most powerful...

Here it is early in the morning of Christmas Eve Day, and I have LIDA crowding in on almost every thought. Well, everyone else is still asleep, so I can probably afford to spend some time on it now. As of right now, we have seven alpha testers and seven more beta...

After yesterday's "OOPs" email posting, we have picked up SEVEN people volunteering to help beta test LIDA! Wow! That is absolutely wonderful. Because I wanted to give all these new volunteers a timeline for when they could expect to receive their version of LIDA to...

I made a mistake yesterday, and later on this morning, I'll address an apology to the group I erred with. I was doing some advance recruiting of beta testers, and accidentally included in the address the Community-Music yahoo group I work with. And then one of the...

WE NEED TESTERS!BE A PART of helping to develop THE ULTIMATE MUSIC LIBRARY DATA MANAGEMENT Application. We need people who have some experience with music libraries, particularly those who have been frustrated by finding out information about what's in your library,...