Online Search and Delivery

We are very excited to announce the VTown Car­tel online search and deliv­ery por­tal.  This online tool lets users effec­tively search and down­load our music in mp3 and wav for­mats.  Users can make playlists for dif­fer­ent projects, down­load playlists, share playlists and cre­ate auto­matic cue sheets mak­ing a stream­lined workflow.

The por­tal is pow­ered by sound­miner, which has long been rec­og­nized as a leader in music data­base and meta­data man­age­ment.  Cur­rent users of this sys­tem include Sony Pic­tures, Walt Dis­ney Imag­i­neer­ing, Microsoft, Activi­sion, Dis­cov­ery Chan­nel, NBC, Activi­sion, ABC, CNN, Pixar, Uni­ver­sal, Warner Broth­ers Pic­tures, Sir­ius Satel­lite Radio, Elec­tronic Arts, Para­mount, Walt Dis­ney Pic­tures, National Geo­graphic and more.  The sys­tem also inter­faces with Avid, Pro­Tools and Apple’s Final Cut Pro.

We have and will con­tinue to mod­ify and tweak the data­base to give the user exactly what they need, quickly and eas­ily.  Please con­tact us with your feedback!

Click here for an account.

Overview

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The VTown Car­tel online search and deliv­ery por­tal is located at http://search.VTownCartelMusic.com

Users can search, make playlists, down­load (mp3 or wav), share playlists and cre­ate auto-generated cue sheets.

Login

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To login, go to http://search.VTownCartelMusic.com

If you for­got your pass­word, click on the For­got your Pass­word link and enter your user­name.  You will be emailed direc­tions for log­ging in.

Inter­face

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Once you are suc­cess­fully logged in, you can eas­ily cus­tomize your work space.  Tog­gle between list view, art­work / list view, or just art­work.  In the columns drop-down menu, select the columns you would like to see.  Drag the columns in your pre­ferred order.

Nav­i­ga­tion works sim­i­lar to your browser in Fire­fox.  The “Home” but­ton takes you to your home screen, while the “Back” and “Next” but­tons nav­i­gate to pre­vi­ous pages.

Search­ing

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The home screen has some columns to get you started.  Click on a gen­eral cat­e­gory, col­lec­tion or spe­cific album.

You can also type in a spe­cific search cri­te­ria in the text box towards the top of the screen.

Type in mul­ti­ple cri­te­ria to search a com­bi­na­tion of words.  For exam­ple, ‘Rock Punk’ would search rock tracks that are also punk tracks.  Use the minus (-) key to exclude a search term.  For exam­ple ‘Rock –Punk’ would search for tracks that are rock but NOT punk.  The aster­isk (*) will search part of a phrase.  For exam­ple voc* would search terms like ‘Vocal Vocals Vocal­ist’.  Symph* would search ‘Sym­phony Sym­phonic Symphonies’.

You can use all of these tech­niques in a search.  ‘*Symph Rock –Punk –Voc* Fast’ would search for sym­phonic rock tracks that are NOT punk and do NOT con­tain vocals, but that are fast.

Use the lock but­ton to drill down in a search, where a new search only returns results from the pre­vi­ous results.

Playlists, Down­load­ing and Sharing

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Click the “Project” tab to be taken to the project con­trols.  Click on the “New Playlist” but­ton to add a new playlist.  Drag and drop tracks into the playlist or (with the playlist high­lighted) click the “add to playlist” but­ton next to a track.

Click the “down­load” but­ton next to any track to down­load.  Click down­load album to down­load all of the tracks on an album.  With a playlist high­lighted, click the “Down­load” but­ton in the project con­trols to down­load a playlist.

To share a playlist, click on the “Email” but­ton in project controls.

Cue Sheets

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To cre­ate an auto-generated cue sheet, click on the “Cre­ate Cue Sheet” but­ton in the project con­trols.  Drag a playlist or indi­vid­ual tracks to the cue sheet.  Dou­ble click on the cue sheet to pre­view the cue sheet.  Enter infor­ma­tion on the cue sheet or export in pdf or text.