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I made a little screen cast showing my project in action:

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Anonymous said…
Looks very good!

The only thing I would suggest is something to set the type of tags written to mp3 files. iTunes (among others) chokes on v2.4 which is the default setting for Picard. (Picard writes valid tags but many others do not.)
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