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How would you catalog your CD collection?

Which application would you choose to catalog your CD collection? I have reviewed the following applications that are specifically tailored for the task such as Delicious Library and Collectorz Music Collector. I do like the visual presentation of Delicious Library. Both offer the simplicity of scanning the CD barcodes. It seems that CollectorZ Music Collector has more more fields and customizable to a limited degree than Delicious Library. The down side to Delicious Library is that I did not notice on the website that it has an export feature to convert the data into another format such as Excel spreadsheet.

The other option is to use an application like File Maker Pro which would allow the total customization and the ability to export the data to an Excel file if desired. I leaning towards using File Maker Pro, but I am interested in other HA members opinions and experience in this area. Thank for your help! 

How would you catalog your CD collection?

Reply #1 –
I just use iTunes.  I use other software to encode, but iTunes to organize.  Coverflow has added a new level of enjoyment to my music.

I have Delicious Library v1, but I decided early on that I was only going to use it for books, games, and movies. Maybe when I upgrade to v2 (on an Intel platform) I will start cataloging music.  Right now I don't have a scanner, so I have to enter everything manually.  It's a great application - are you sure there is not an export option in v2?

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Reply #3 –
CATraxx by Fredrik Norbakke. Great program, great support by the author. Go to his site to download a fully functional copy, only limitation is it's limited to 50 items I believe. http://www.fnprg.com

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Reply #4 –
CATraxx for Windows users.
Delicious LIbrary for Mac users.

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Reply #5 –
Does Catraxx support formats like Musepack, Ogg Vorbis, Tak, Wavpack and such?

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Reply #6 –
Quote from: Squeller on
Does Catraxx support formats like Musepack, Ogg Vorbis, Tak, Wavpack and such?


From the website:
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Built-in support for 11 audio file formats: aac, ape, flac, mp3, mp4, m4b, mpc, ogg, shn, wav and wma.

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Reply #7 –
Another vote for Catraxx. Been using it for nearly 10 years. Brilliant program and great support from the author and forums

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Reply #8 –
Add me to the list of Catraxx happy users. Great program.

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Reply #9 –
No users of open source MAC? :-O
http://mac.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
Ogg Vorbis for music and speech [q-2.0 - q6.0]
FLAC for recordings to be edited
Speex for speech

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Reply #10 –
macman4hire I take it that you mean by cataloging your CD collection, you mean physical CDs specifically. Because for computer audio files there's already iTunes, or foobar2000 and the like on a PC.

Well, I was trying to catalog my (physical) CDs a few years ago and used a shareware programm of which I cannot remember the name anymore. But one of the downsides of this program was that it used its own database file format and there was no way to export the information to text or spreadsheats. I pretty soon gave up and haven't tried any new cataloging software since then. Of course my effort had been in vein, since the database format is unreadable without the software I used.

Now I might consider giving cataloging all my CDs another try, but there have to some conditions met or else all the work will be in vein again:
  • open, human-readable format preferably XML or at least XLS (not binary, but Office Open XML), CSV or HTML (ugh!)
  • seperate fields for the barcode and the labels internal catalog number, for some major labels the barcode IS the label's catalog number, but most record labels still use both
  • the bar code reader support macman4hire mentioned is nice, but since I don't have one not a must. Still I might be able to get one for free if I really wanted to.
  • no audio player, no support for MP3s, AACs, or other computer audio files... I already have a music library software, namely foobar2000. I want to catalog my physical CDs only, like a warehouse manager not like a DJ who wants to actually access the content via that software.
  • support for discogs, both import and export (using login and submission), that would be cool

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Reply #12 –
Excel
Was that a 1 or a 0?

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Reply #13 –
Any thoughts on an app for linux?

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Reply #14 –
MP3tag, the esiast way!!!

Cumpz...

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Reply #15 –
I use Foobar2000 + foo_discogs.

For Linux I suggest you use WINE if you want to use this awesome combo.

Oh- as for cataloging the physical cds this is great too because that's what discogs is designed for! Not only that but then I exported the results, wrote a little XMLWriter that parses it all out into XML (took me maybe 15 mins) and now I have a perfectly extensible form of my 1600+ cd collection along with complete artwork!

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Reply #16 –
Quote from: frozenspeed on
I use Foobar2000 + foo_discogs.

For Linux I suggest you use WINE if you want to use this awesome combo.

Oh- as for cataloging the physical cds this is great too because that's what discogs is designed for! Not only that but then I exported the results, wrote a little XMLWriter that parses it all out into XML (took me maybe 15 mins) and now I have a perfectly extensible form of my 1600+ cd collection along with complete artwork!


That sounds great.  Would you care to post your XML code so that others could use this?

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Reply #17 –
I used VisiTrax, a few years back.

VisiTrax

It could easily export to excel, and it could operate nicely with winamp, so had support for acessing the mp3 files ripped from the albums you catalogued.

I can satisfy most of the things Fandango asked for.