Record Cataloging Software?
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Topic: Record Cataloging Software?
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Subject: Record Cataloging Software?
Date Posted: September 03 2011 at 23:23
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Hi,
I want to catalog my record collection and I was wondering if anyone had suggestions for software to do this with? I know there are programs out there for it. I need it to be free. I'm using a Mac running OSX Lion. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
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Posted By: npjnpj
Date Posted: September 04 2011 at 00:20
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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. |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: September 04 2011 at 01:05
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CD's and iTunes don't help. This is for my vinyl collection. I found Booxter which is a free app on the app store. I guess I'll use that until I can find a better free alternative. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 04 2011 at 07:57
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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: 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. Read more: http://download.cnet.com/Music-Catalogue-Master/3000-2141_4-10308329.html#ixzz1WzLBj4IC" rel="nofollow - Music Catalogue Master - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Download.com http://download.cnet.com/Music-Catalogue-Master/3000-2141_4-10308329.html#ixzz1WzLBj4IC" rel="nofollow - http://download.cnet.com/Music-Catalogue-Master/3000-2141_4-10308329.html#ixzz1WzLBj4IC 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" rel="nofollow - http://downloads.zdnet.com/search.aspx?kw=music+catalog+software&osfilter=windows&licfilter=free ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: September 04 2011 at 09:02
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Personally I prefer doing that http://www.rateyourmusic.com" rel="nofollow - online
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: September 04 2011 at 10:51
Beat me to it. EDIT: And Olav, holy cow your collection is huge!
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Windhawk wrote:Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: September 04 2011 at 12:59
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... ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: Andy Webb
Date Posted: September 04 2011 at 13:33
Oh wow, you're right... that might be bigger than Slarti's legendary collection!  ------------- http://ow.ly/8ymqg" rel="nofollow">  
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: September 04 2011 at 22:52
I don't see his collection? Has the link changed -------------   
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: September 05 2011 at 00:21
No, i figured out his username. His collection is about 6k. |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: September 05 2011 at 03:05
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6K of vinyl or including digital albums? If it's just vinyl then holy sh*t man! Edit: nevermind that's mostly digital. I found out that Discogs is basically exactly what I'm looking for. I just started this long process of cataloging but my list is here: http://www.discogs.com/collection?user=JakeKobrin" rel="nofollow - http://www.discogs.com/collection?user=JakeKobrin
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Posted By: Windhawk
Date Posted: September 05 2011 at 03:12
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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. ------------- Websites I work with: http://www.progressor.net http://www.houseofprog.com My profile on Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/haukevind/ |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: September 05 2011 at 03:19
But you can add as many issues as you wish on RYM.  Look at http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_rolling_stones/sticky_fingers/" rel="nofollow - this album for example, it has 38 issues to choose from. |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: September 05 2011 at 10:16
I don't think you can specify which issue you own though. I am slightly tempted to try out this discogs website, except it already took me long enough to set up my RYM.
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: September 05 2011 at 10:37
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I just use Excel. ------------- A fun place to review and discuss metal: http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/" rel="nofollow - MetalMusicArchives |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: September 05 2011 at 11:57
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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. ------------- http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dr-Neil-Kobrin/244687105562746" rel="nofollow - SUPPORT MY FATHER AND BECOME A FAN Jacob Kobrin Illustration |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: September 05 2011 at 14:28
For my vinyl I keep them grouped by artists (not alphabetical.....I'm not that smart) in boxes I made. For the rest of my media CD's, online digital purchases I use the Zune software, which is free also.
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: September 05 2011 at 14:36
Beat me to it. Far easier than anything else I've seen. ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: September 06 2011 at 23:16
| I just checked out discogs out of curiosity, Jake, I didn't see that feature you were talking about where you can enter in the # but perhaps I just missed it. Anyways, I already found a few places where their database is not as complete as RYM's, although I do like that the albums that do have data have more data. I also really like the idea of their marketplace and may maintain an account there just for access to that more than out of a desire to catalogue my collection. |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: September 07 2011 at 07:03
| 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. |
Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: September 07 2011 at 07:34
------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: September 07 2011 at 15:37
Yes, I found that. Jake mentioned (or maybe I misunderstood) that he could type in the catalogue # of his CD and it would find the correct issue for him, saving him searching through lists of albums by artists, which is what I could not find.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: September 07 2011 at 15:47
| ^ I think he mentioned that for Discogs not RYM. |
Posted By: TheGazzardian
Date Posted: September 07 2011 at 16:23
Oh, I should have read your post clearer. I was talking about Discogs, not RYM, as well. My bad!
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