Record Cataloging Software?

Best import your CD collection into iTunes (it's free) and then export the playlist. It spools a tab-delimited ASCII file that you can open with Excel and muck around with.

By default the colums you get (on PC, Mac is pobably the same) are:

Name, Artist, Composer, Album, Grouping, Genre, Size, Time, Disc Number, Disc Count, Track Number, Track Count, Year, Date Modified, Date Added, Bit Rate, Sample Rate, Volume Adjustment, Kind, Equaliser, Comments, Plays, Last Played, Skips, Last Skipped, My Rating, Location,

Just chuck out the ones you don't want and you have your catalog.

Well, you could always rip all your vinyls...
Not entirely sure what you're expecting.  I do see Booxter does automate things if the album has a bar code and you scan it in.  You got me curious though.  I usually try cnet or zdnet when I'm looking for freebies. I'm going to check this out:
http://download.cnet.com/Music-Catalogue-Master/3000-2141_4-10308329.html
Music Catalogue Master catalogs CDs, MP3s and vinyl records into a fully searchable database. It automatically enters CDs and records from 5 different internet databases. It automatically downloads and enters all the available CD, vinyl record and track information into its database - including artist name, title, label, release year, cover art - all track titles, artists and track times as well as roles/credits, and much more! You can create as many user-defined tracking categories as you want, and attach as many of these as you want to any CD, record or track. Scratch that it's trialware.  Only $23 though.

I recently cataloged my LPs but I'm just using a simple spreadsheet of my own creation.

Here's ZD Net's freebies for Windows users:
http://downloads.zdnet.com/search.aspx?kw=music+catalog+software&osfilter=windows&licfilter=free


Edited by Slartibartfast - September 04 2011 at 08:08

Windhawk wrote: Personally I prefer doing that online

Edited by TheGazzardian - September 04 2011 at 10:55

TheGazzardian wrote: Windhawk wrote: Personally I prefer doing that online Beat me to it. EDIT: And Olav, holy cow your collection is huge!

Catcher10 wrote: Windhawk wrote: Personally I prefer doing that online   I don't see his collection? Has the link changed

No, i figured out his username. His collection is about 6k.

Not much vinyl I'm afraid.
1200 or so CDs, a couple of hundred vinyls, a big stack of CD-R's and 3k or thereabouts of digital ones. If I remember correctly.

Not that impressive really.

harmonium.ro wrote: Jake Kobrin wrote: Windhawk wrote: Personally I prefer doing that online I don't like that you can't note the pressing, or add more than one copy of an album. There are some albums that I own a few different copies of, different pressings, different colors, pic disk vs regular, etc.  I guess that Booxter will have to work for now...  But you can add as many issues as you wish on RYM. Look at this album for example, it has 38 issues to choose from.

Huh, I didn't see that. One thing I'm really liking about Discogs, though, is that you can just type in the code on the record and it will find the exact one for you. It's very very quick, much quicker than having to search through a list of records to see which fits yours. 

Stooge wrote: I just use Excel.

Stephen, if you click on one of the issues of the album on RYM, it will open you a page dedicated to that issue (with its own cover art, if the case, and with its own ratings, that get calculated for the general rating of the album). There you can specify that you own that particular issue.