Inventory of vinyl - what software do you use?

Fully agree with 4 yanx. I use CDTrustee for all CD's and records as well. It not only fills in a relational database, but alows searches on many attributes, produces reports, CD covers etc. The functionality is way beyond what you can do in Excel. It is a 10 year product with strong support and continual improvement.

I created my database in MS Access. It was easy to set up and I've added several fields over the years.

I also purchased a data program for my Palm Pilot that could import from MS Access and keep an updated copy of my record data base with me at all times. It comes in handy when I'm browsing record stores.

Herman - are you still using the Kix Music Master program you wrote about in that thread you linked? Has it gotten any easier to use? I just went to their site where it was stated that they had basically lost the ability to search for vinyl because the database they had linked to was taken over by another company which eliminated the web search function.

Though at some point I would like to inventory my CDs as well, my vinyl inventory takes precedence at this point - I have more vinyl than I have CDs, and I probably haven't even looked at some of it for quite a few years. :-o I will, however, check into CDTrustee, as recommended by 4yanx & Zargon.

I might as well make this another winter project, cataloguing all of my audio software!

Holly

I guess it depends on what you are trying to accomplish with your inventory.

Point taken. My main focus was artist, title, media to keep from buying duplicates, which is very differnt from cataloging multiple pressings of the same thing.

As for Kix and freedb I was unaware of that situation. When I tried it it found the vast majority of my albums with some minor editing. I could search an artist and just pick the titles from a list that was returned.

Looks like a different story now.

I must give my full support to the above mentioned 'CD Trustee'. This is as easy and acturate, as it gets. Saves a lot of time, with very little typing.