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#Catraxx vs music collector software#
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So do I put all of Chanticleer together, or do I put their baroque stuff under baroque, their Christmas stuff under Christmas, their world music under world music, etc? There must be some guidelines for this – record/CD shops have been doing it for decades. But my problem comes with whether i place things by era, composer, instrument, performer, country, etc. So I want to devise a new system, chiefly for shelving, so that I can find things more easily, without having to do a compute search. However, as the collection got bigger, this became meaningless, with sections like the Bs and Cs growing to well over 100 each. The main purpose of the catalogue numbers was for shelving.

and the details (label, company, era, tracks, were all in the Works catalogues. When I started, with only a small collection, it was a fairly simple system # was for collections and samplers that didn’t have other particular quality, B could be Bach, Bolivia or baroque, etc.

I have about 1500 LPs and CDs, all catalogues, and every track catalogued – in old Microsoft Works! However, my system needs to be changed.

#Catraxx vs music collector software#

I’m not looking for a software program, but for guidelines for a basic cataloguing structure.

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How can we collect records if we don’t know what’s out there? How can anyone claim mastery of their subject without that kind of rigor?Īny suggestions for software that might create some sanity for people like Jeff and me? Sorry to belabor this, but I’ve been asking this question for years and still don’t see a source that can do this. If I am collecting a particular artist’s records, or a label’s, or am interested in all mono releases across labels from 1960-1967, how can I do that? Discogs is a train wreck of errors, confused categories and redundancies. I’m looking for a database which is comprehensive, sortable and reliable source that lists all lps. Are you aware of a database of popular lps, one that is comprehensive and sortable? There’s still the problem of vinyl in my basement. I’m still ripping my CDs, but my I have almost instant access to more than 65,000 songs. I can’t remember what database program I used–it might have been a Lotus product–but once iTunes came on the scene, my problems were (mostly) solved.

I worked on it for a couple of Sunday afternoons before I gave up. I thought it would be so cool to be able to search for every detail on song on every piece of vinyl and every CD I owned.

#Catraxx vs music collector windows#

Years and years ago, I tried to put my recorded music collection into a database. CATraxx is a powerful music collector database program for Windows that allows you to catalog a music collection of any kind, from vinyl records to CDs.