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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
lugnut
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A programmer friend could build exactly what we want for not much money at all but I wouldn't be interested if it couldn't access the CDDB database. He and I have talked about every feature I could dream up and he indicated it's not much work for him. I had thought that I'd just give him some money and offer it here for free but nobody would want to enter that much information. It would be an M$ app only too which is, how do I say it correctly, too bad? I assume the CDDB is not free. Anyone know?
herman OP
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It looks to me like the collectorz is a better program than the one I found. It looks like it can print out the way you want bld63 and both access the cddb stuff but the collectorz goes further and looks more places.
herman OP
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I have been playing with these and it appears that the only one that accesses a site called freedb is the Kix Music Catalouge. This site has a database of LPs that the other program doesn't find. CollectorZ is far superior in features, but it can't find the vinyl. Since I'm looking to catalog 1000's of records I may not have a choice but to use the clunkier program.

Any other suggestions?
bld63
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Herman,

Thanks for the heads up on collecorz. I downloaded the trial version for it also. The ability to customize reports looks promising. I have been able to find some vinyl but it seems you have search artist & title. Maybe this weekend I will have time to figure out which program is best for me.

Thanks, Bryan
herman OP
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I'm going with kix since I have about 4,000 pieces to enter. The others have better interfaces and more features, but the ability enter the entire inventory of each artist at one time will save me hours and hours of work. The kix presents a list of everything it found and you can pick what you have.

With over 1000 CDs I'm not willing to put each one into the computer for it to search CDDB. You get more info but it is very slow compared to picking from a list and I'm really just interested in a list of what I have so I can quit buying duplicates.

The kix program also pulls up a lot of old vinyl that the others miss so that will save a lot of time.
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