database program for music collection, finally


I just downloaded the trial version of this and it appears to be what I need to keep track of my collection. Cheap too. It looks up CDs and LPs via the interenet and keeps them in a database.

I've only played with it a little bit and it is not very intuitive to use, but it is the only thing I've seen that will do this. I am open to other suggestions.
herman

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I'm cataloging my vinyl collection of some 3500+ jazz and classical albums. First of all, any software that only allows one artist per album is conceptually broken and unusable, IMHO.

The only thing I found that does it right (but not entirely) is CollectorZ. It's buggy and the UI is absolutely hideous (the Mac version is a very bad port of a Windows UI). It gets others things wrong, and the list management is very flakey, but it's still the best I have found. I does have some very nice reporting and listing features. In the end it is the best I have found. So far I have cataloged some 360+ jazz records. It finds most of them via Discogs and CollectorZ, but almost always requires further editing. The classical stuff will be more problematic. I have 2000 classical LPs and most are imports, many somewhat obscure.