Cataloging CD's

CLZ music is not too expensive and does everything I need.

Cheers

Graham

I've tried a few things, and just gave up and started ripping my CDs (even before I had a full computer audio rig.)  i really wanted it for classical music ("Do I really need another version of X?") But, to get the level of detail I wanted, I needed to do a lot of manual data entry - you never get over 80% accuracy from online databases.  I'd suggest ripping your CDs. Same amount of work, and you get to stream all you CDs "for free."

Discogs is fun for vinyl as you can see all the various pressings people have cataloged. But, I don't see that value for CDs.

I think Discogs is pretty good, I have most of collection both vinyl and CD now catalogued. It's definitely useful for checking all the different releases and the value, particularly for vinyl.

You won't find everything though so you need to be prepared to enter some releases yourself. 

I use the Discollector and CrateDigger app to access Discogs from my iPad

+1 for Discogs.

Hey guys,

Just beside topic: why exactly do you catalogue your album collection on the iPad. DOes it bring additional metadata/info that,  -after decent ripping- nStream doesn't bring ?

Iver

Hi Iver,

I started off with my vinyl collection as I wanted an inventory of exactly which release I had and Discogs seemed ideal for this. Also I could easily see which other releases existed and the current value of the vinyl.

I decided just to carry on and put all my CDs into Discogs as well even though you are right you sort of get a catalogue from n-Stream. One difference is the metadata though - I can't see all the relevant release data in n-Stream. It would be nice if we could select in n-Stream which metadata we wanted to see.

And......the other useful aspect is when you go to those second hand record shops and find something by someone and then think I have already got that

Well useful if your memory is getting like mine!

Hey guys,

thanks for the info! I didn't know that. Also understand that all the info is physically stored on your mobile device, meaning you have always access to it.

I also struggle with the fact that I already bought 3 CD's that I already had. To avoid that I made an xls export of my library and stored it on my iPad sonI can dbl-check when in the store. However it is a clumsy way of using the search button on the xls (takes quite some searchin-time), plus I regurlarly need to update the file. I know that some here use a tool (??? Dont know the name) that more or less makes a summary of all the albums in a collection. The tool can also put that summary on the web if required.

cheers,

Iver

In the old days I used to have a database on my old Nokia Communicator (the big bricks) which was converted from a excel file from my computer. The big benefit for me was to avoid double buys. Nowadays I haven't found a good solution yet for Iphone (and perhaps also too lazy to look for it).... BUt avoiding double buys is definitely a good business case for this kind of thing.

it is one of the failing features in lots of Library Management Tools. I think iTunes is the only one of them providing a decent PDF report with all your albums. This report reads in an easy way and has a good search facility.

However, I use MediaMonkey to manage my library, and MM only has a very moderate export facility for the library.

Work to do for the suppliers !

I use Excel on my PC.

Iver, have a look here:

https://forums.naimaudio.com/topic/collectorzcom

I have a Collectorz app on the iPhone for just those occasions.