Posted on 12/26/2001 6:03:26 PM PST by mlmr
I am looking for a cataloging recommendation. I have looked at a couple of them but have not been impressed. I want the kind of software that you can put your CD in the CD slot, and do someting to the computer and it will read out the name of the album and all the cuts and place this info in a database. I understand this works by the software accessing an Internet database. The rest of it is essentially S&M to me.
Do you use this kind of software? Do you like it? Would you recommend it? I have about 300 CDs to catalog. I dont dare buy another because I cannot remember what I have....Help!
Searching it for a song, artist or album takes about 5 seconds. This method has saved me from many duplicate downloads.
NOTE... this drive is NOT my boot drive. I've used about 70 gigs to store my basic collection of around 300 cd's. In about 9 months at the current rate, the drive will be full. In the interim, I plan to add another 100 Gig drive and mirror the first one to it for another layer of safety.
In addition, I added a SCSI card that will allow me to add an additional 7 hard drives of any size.
I burn CD's only for use in the car and so forth. My computer is hooked into my home office stereo, and soon I will port it my main home sound system.
BTW, as a side note, my collection spans from about 1907 (Edison cylinder recordings) to 2001.
Trying to manage a CD collection will drive you nuts.
MusicMatch 7.0 from www.musicmatch.com
They have a free download but the full version is only $19.95 or so.....
it will connect to the CDDB data base and will manage multiple libraries (if you want).
It is orientated towards converting the CDs into mp3 (compressed files) and
enabling you to assemble your own custom CDs (e.g., "mlmr's Best of Sting" and write those onto blank CDRs,
but I am sure that you can use it for the purpose you want. It is a pretty well thought out piece of software.
Good Luck
CobolKing
Might I make a suggestion? Point your browser at www.freedb.org and look at the list of supported applications, and their list of applications that can be modified to support FreeDB, instead of looking at CDDB?
IMO, Gracenote (the company operating CDDB) is nothing more than a gang of common thieves who deserve no support for their activities.
Just my $0.02 ;)
What do you do with the other 99.8% of the CD-R?
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