I’ve got over 1000 CDs, and I average 5-10 new ones a week. I’m looking for a way to catalogue them. Can anyone recommend software to accomplish this? I would prefer freeware but of course will pay for a good application.
Bells and whistles are great. I found something called Collectorz, and even though I hate anything with a z substituting for s, it has a lot of them (bells and whistles). But they want forty bucks. Anybody have any suggestions?
Thanking you.
PS I know, I know, why don’t I spend the forty bucks if I’m spending so much on CDs. Two words. Value. I am a cheap Yankee, and forty bucks goes a long way on eBay.
Why, just last week I got 10 classical CDs, Brahms, Strauss, Handel, Dvorak, etc. for 22.62. That’s with shipping. So again, I’ll spend the dough if I have to, but I would like to see some options, and I know my fellow Dopers will have good insight on this.
Sorry, we didn’t mean to make you feel left out! I know there’s software that lets you enter every kind of detail imaginable, scan the covers into it, link to sound files on your hard drive, read CDDB data, etc., but I don’t know a single person who uses any of it.
With 12,000 individual records/CDs, I use a Works database.
Maybe try Google, enter “CD database software” or something like it. You’ll find something.
Jesus Christ, fish, you make me feel like a piker. My main desire is to not do all that typing. I did Google this; that’s how I came up with Collectorz. All you do is put the CD in and then it talks to CDDB and whatever to get the album tracks and musicians (most important with jazz, as the individual players are different almost every time).
I’m mainly worried about downloading something nasty with it. Cool Web Search is still hanging around fucking up the process, even though I use Firefox now. I can’t get rid of it without reformatting, which I am loathe to do for reasons that the SD powers that be don’t like to be discussed here.
I haven’t found any reviews of Collectorz that compare and contrast it with other options. I was hoping the Dope would help me out. Help a fella out!
As much as it shames me sometimes, I am a guy at heart. And somewhere down in the atavistic, lizard-brain guy part of my soul, I am feeling inadequate that my CD collection is so, well, small compared to fishbicycle’s.
Hey, a thousand CDs is still, um, quite big, isn’t it? Somebody? Anybody?
I don’t have that particular program, but I do have the sister program BookCAT, which I bought recently, so I could catalog my 600+ books (and constantly growing…we’re literally going to have to move next year to have room for more bookshelves) for insurance and personal purposes.
I love the BookCAT program, all I have to do is enter the ISBN and it looks up all the book info and auto-enters it for me!
The CATraxx program looks like it has some cool features, too.
There’s some additional add-on software you can purchase if you want to include LPs and cassettes, it looks like. There’s also a couple links on that site to PDA and Pocket PC versions, so you could transfer the CATraxx DB file on your main PC to a PDA/Pocket PC to take to the store with you.