Inventory of vinyl - what software do you use?

I use CDTrustee for both CD's and records. For CD's, you can just slip one in and it will automatically cross-reference a web-based datbase and fill in all the data. I find that it will locate about 24 of 25 CD's successfully. For records, I use the artist and title to search one of several databases until I find the one of interest, then fill the fields. In the event of a CD where there are extra tracks or they are in different order, it is eay to change Same with realese number, etc. Easier than typing EVERYTHING into a database worksheet. Now, if one is ONLY interested in LP title, such is not a big deal.

If someone would develop an electronic database for LP's that is comprehansive as the ones for CD's, I'd love to find it.

Certainly Access is a much more robust program than Excel as a relational database. I taught myself both programs long ago because I needed them in school and, later work. I've yet to find a softwater package in which I had an interest that I could not kick beat senselss in time. But, if you don't want to spend that time to learn and are more of a click and go person, the CDTrustee software is a cheap and effective alternative. Cheaper than buying Access or Excel off the shelf, too! (But, does anyone actually buy those programs?) ;-)

Larry, why do so many of your posts simply say .bookmark.? Is it a way to infer to others that the thread is of sufficient interest toi bookmark, or does Audiogon automatically place that line when someone bookmarks a thread? I ask because yours are the only posts where I have seen this.