Music Cataloging software advice for Vinyl with no barcodes
Posted by: mutterback on 16 September 2011
The last thread I can see on this topic - at least in my searching - was from 2005, so figured an update was in order.
I've tried Music Collector/Collectorz, Readerware and Rate My Music. Music Collector works very well for CDs (stick them in and it catalogs it automatically) and LPs with barcodes. Readerware is a bit easier to enter a set of barcodes, but not nearly as nice as Music Collector overall and Music Collector's search is much better.
Still, Music Collectors is difficult for LPs without bar codes. It provides an Artist and Title search, which results in a huge set of hits and goes nuts for classical recordings. I tried searching for the famous EMI release of Elgar's Cello Concerto and Sea Pictures and it becomes a task of hunting through 100s of hits from their database. Turns out the "artist" is stored as "Jacqueline Du Pré; Janet Baker; The London Symphony Orchestra; Sir John Barbirolli; Sir Edward Elgar."
My main goal here is to know what LPs I already have - particularly classical ones - so I can fill in some gaps and not buy duplicates. Off the top of my head, I know I own OK Computer and all of Dylan (and then some), but knowing which Beethoven piano concertos I'm missing is something that I'd like to find easily.
Any advice? Many thanks
