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Pat Ripley edited this page Jun 15, 2022 · 13 revisions

Welcome to the Moose wiki!

What is Moose?

The moose (North America) or elk (Eurasia), Alces alces, is a member of the New World deer subfamily and is the largest and heaviest extant species in the deer family. Most adult male moose have distinctive broad, palmate ("open-hand shaped") antlers; most other members of the deer family have antlers with a dendritic ("twig-like") configuration. Moose typically inhabit boreal forests and temperate broadleaf and mixed forests of the Northern Hemisphere in temperate to subarctic climates.

But that doesn't really have anything to do with this project does it? The better question is probably "What is this project?"


What is this project?

Moose is my pet project from college that turned out to be more useful than I anticipated. It's basically just a mp3 information editor, where you can edit the Title, Artist, Album, Year, Genre, etc. for mp3 files. There are a few different apps out there that do this same thing, but I've found that:

  • I have to pay for them (gross)
  • If they're free, they usually have features stripped away and they'll ask you 17 times while using it over the course of 5 minutes if you want to try the paid version, usually followed by "If you don't pay for it, my kids can't eat!" or something like that.
  • Most apps out there are very simple. They only provide the ability to edit files one at a time, or just simply changing information about those files, with no automatic functionality.

I solved a lot of these problems I've seen with other applications by creating my own application!


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How do I get started using Moose?

Check out the Downloading Moose article to get Moose running on your machine.

Need some help getting started? Check out the Using Moose article in this wiki!