MC-Manager

An Electron-React application for managing a music collection csv file

Background

Through a varied combination of python scripts, sqlite tables, and manual review, I wrangled my music library into a single unified collection and compiled a CSV file of the song and file metadata.

This database is a dynamic entity - as I acquire new songs I want to be able to add them to the CSV file in a streamlined and consistent way. I could always use a spreadsheet application to manually enter song data, but with over a dozen columns, the manual parsing is more data mining for each song than I'd like to do.

And why spend time doing manual work when you can spend even more time automating it?

I wanted a quick way to get up-and-running with an electron application, and I found that the electron-react-boilerplate project was perfectly suited. I cloned the boilerplate template and built off of that, so most of the built-in functionality of that repository should also work in this project.

Starting Development (ERB)

Start the app in the dev environment. This starts the renderer process in hot-module-replacement mode and starts a webpack dev server that sends hot updates to the renderer process:

yarn dev

Packaging for Production (ERB)

To package apps for the local platform:

yarn package

ERB Docs

Further documentation for electron-react-boilerplate can be found in their docs and guides