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Decent software for classical LP collection mgmt?

My classical LP collection has grown out of control with various recent church bazaars and tag sale acquisitions. I need to get organized. My CD's have long been on a music server and thus they are all neatly databased, with cover art and lyrics. But my LP's are a mess.

About 10 years ago I had started to do this using a spreadsheet for the first 1500 or so albums. But I find now that I didn't record a lot of fields that I'm more interested in today (like I didn't rate any of them for condition or performance quality). Also, I keep discovering duplicate copies of stuff where I might sell it or donate the lesser copy to my church.

Anyway, this sounds like an all-winter data entry project, so I'm looking for a program that will make it as easy as possible. Any suggestions??

Thanks!
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raylinds
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I downloaded all 5 programs. Because I was most interested in the ability to download the information from the internet for most of my collection, I compared their ability to download from the internet. I wanted the software that offered the most websites that you can download data from.

* Music Library from WenSoftware.com: CDDB only. You can access album information from other sites, but you cannot download it.
* Music Catalog Master from KIX Software Solutions: Musicbrainz, Amazon, Freedb
* Music Label 2010 16.0.1 www.wensoftware.com: CDDB only
* Catraxx: Discogs (a very good data site specifically geared towards vinyl) Amazon Canada, Us, Germany, UK, France. CDDB only if you insert CD into drive.
* Wax 1.0: OpenVinyl, a new vinyl site with very little data. I could not get software to work.

My favorite was Catraxx. I entered numerous albums including pretty obscure stuff and I was able to download data for every one, though for a few I had to download data for the CD from Amazon. It is odd you can only download from CDDB with a CD, but I never had to worry about that. Note, I do not have much Classical, so I don't know how extensive the classical data is. Also, the program has extensive data fields. You can also import databases from almost every music DB software. HTH
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