I am still using a program called Audiofile which was reviewed in Stereophile many years ago.
Here are some of the issues I've run into.
The biggest issue is that the author of the program walked away from it a few years ago. I asked if, since he was disowning it, he would give me programming information so that I could maintain it for my own personal use (It has glitches when run in XP). Even though he admitted it was just a template over Filemaker Pro, he wanted to sell it to me. So.....To the extent possible you want to deal with a reputable software company that you can count on.
In the 5 years I owned the program before he disowned it there were no updates or fixes provided. They were promised. See last comment above.
This program allowed for the printing of a listing but did not provide a means to customize the listing so that what you spend time printing out is what you really want.
You could not print to a file or to html so there was no way to create something you could post or send to a friend.
The media categories were fixed at dat, vinyl, cd, tape, minidisc. This is a problem. It forces me to lump sacd and dvd-a into cd and 7inch 45rpm and all 78rpms into vinyl. I never use dat, minidisc or tape.
The help features were terrible.
A really useful piece of cataloging software would combine the cataloging feature with a music server feature all in one program. How hard could that be?
I could go on and on. Flexibility of fields and field titles should be a high priority.
Here are some of the issues I've run into.
The biggest issue is that the author of the program walked away from it a few years ago. I asked if, since he was disowning it, he would give me programming information so that I could maintain it for my own personal use (It has glitches when run in XP). Even though he admitted it was just a template over Filemaker Pro, he wanted to sell it to me. So.....To the extent possible you want to deal with a reputable software company that you can count on.
In the 5 years I owned the program before he disowned it there were no updates or fixes provided. They were promised. See last comment above.
This program allowed for the printing of a listing but did not provide a means to customize the listing so that what you spend time printing out is what you really want.
You could not print to a file or to html so there was no way to create something you could post or send to a friend.
The media categories were fixed at dat, vinyl, cd, tape, minidisc. This is a problem. It forces me to lump sacd and dvd-a into cd and 7inch 45rpm and all 78rpms into vinyl. I never use dat, minidisc or tape.
The help features were terrible.
A really useful piece of cataloging software would combine the cataloging feature with a music server feature all in one program. How hard could that be?
I could go on and on. Flexibility of fields and field titles should be a high priority.