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Tutorials, tips and tricks

This section contains useful resources that explain how to get the most out of Helium Music Manager. Click on a topic below to learn more about it.

Helium Web Service API

[Please note that this documentation is currently incomplete]

How to connect your iPod and iPhone device

Helium Music Manager enables you to synchronize and manage your iPod/iPhone devices.

Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express

This guide is aimed at those who want to install and use Microsoft SQL Server Express as database backend to Helium Music Manager.

Setting up a working MySQL connection

This guide is aimed at those users who want to install and use MySQL as database backend to Helium Music Manager.

Translating into your language

Translating into a new language or completing an incomplete language is quick and simple using our own translation tool. Just follow the short guide below to get started.

Using Helium Music Manager in a multi-user environment

This guide is aimed at those who want to use Helium Music Manager in a multi-user environment. We call it a multi-user environment when one or more computers (up to five allowed currently) connects to a central storage where the music and database is located. This gives many benefits over regular software setups, where each client has its own database. Some of the benefits of Helium Music Manager's approach are:

Video tutorials

This section will contain selected video tutorials for various features and tools within Helium Music Manager. The aim is to enlighten our users with the depths and qualities of the software, as well as show some hidden - and often unknown - tips and tricks.

Creating or restore a MS SQL database backup on a remote server

When you use the Network version of Helium Music Manager, you can choose to have your database stored on a separate server to reduce the workload on your local machine.

Databases stored on external servers cannot be backed up with Helium Music Manager’s backup tool, mainly because of various permissions and related things.

To create a backup of your database stored on your server, you will need to use the functions in SQL Server Management Studio (available for free).

Creating or restore a MySQL Database backup on a remote server

When you use the Network version of Helium Music Manager, you can choose to have your database stored on a separate server to reduce the workload on your local machine.