I use three methods to catalogue my collection. The longest standing method is en Excel spreadsheet. That's fine for Rock etc but poor for Classical, particularly when an album consists of many different pieces and worse still when there are multiple composers.
I also use RYM (Rate Your Music, see my homepage below) which is an online resource but has certain flaws. The biggest one being the inconsistency of user entries.
Thirdly, I bought something called Collectorz Music some years ago but never got around to populating it. On the face of it it's quite good - you insert the CD into the CD-ROM drive and via the net it searches various online resources to look for the release. If it finds it it populates the database with good detail - times, track (work) details, cover art etc. The trouble is, if the release is a few years old it won't find it and you have to enter the details manually.
So, what do you all use? I'm interested in s/w packages, how you find those packages to use and also, if you use your own database, how does that fare?
I'm talking about physical music only - NOT downloads
Thanks in advance.
I never had a problem with Collectorz wrt locating older cds. Sometimes the album cover art isn't available, but the album information is almost always found, especially after entering the cd through the cd drive.
I simply use iTunes.
I should add - the query is related to physical product only and NOT downloads.
Quote from: Bunny on November 09, 2007, 09:09:07 AM
I never had a problem with Collectorz wrt locating older cds. Sometimes the album cover art isn't available, but the album information is almost always found, especially after entering the cd through the cd drive.
I recently gave mine a trial run and of the five I attempted to load, only two were found!
Bumped - am I to assume the answer is an overwhelming "no"?
Quote from: Great Gable on November 09, 2007, 08:37:37 AM
I use three methods to catalogue my collection.
I use four .......
Quote from: Great Gable on November 09, 2007, 08:37:37 AM
I use three methods to catalogue my collection. The longest standing method is en Excel spreadsheet.
I use exel too. Not the greatest, but it works so far.
QuoteI also use RYM (Rate Your Music, see my homepage below) which is an online resource but has certain flaws. The biggest one being the inconsistency of user entries.
May take a look at RYM.