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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!
dfhaleycko
dfhaleycko OP
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Doing a bit of searching and have uncovered the following packages. Anyone have experience using any of these?

found
* Music Library from WenSoftware.com http://www.wensoftware.com/MusicLibrary/
* Music Catalog Master from KIX Software Solutions http://www.kixsoftware.com/mcminfo.html
* Music Label 2010 16.0.1 http://www.codeaero.com/music-label/
* Catraxx http://www.fnprg.com/catraxx/index.html
* Wax 1.0 http://www.deluria.ch/

thanks!

Frank
learsfool
1,215 posts
 
If you find something that is usable on a Mac, let us know! I have searched without success for a good program.
motnic
23 posts
 
I use Music Collector from http://www.collectorz.com/music/
I'm very happy with it except that old classical albums are hard to find on the search-able data bases. So I enter most of my classical albums manually. Time consuming but worth it in the end.
buconero117
2,311 posts
 
I use collectorz, mainly because it can read bar codes. I keep vinyl in a separate data base from cd's, easier to handle. From time to time I merge the bases into a single base for searching only. Entry is done is each base. Yes, many vinyl titles never got an equal cd, so manual entry is needed in most cases.
raylinds
24 posts
 
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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