Comments on: What's the best way to catalog my physical music collection using Mac OS X?

Question: What's the best way to catalog my physical music collection using Mac OS X?

boost ventilator — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:32:12 -0800

What's the best way to catalog my physical music collection using Mac OS X?

I downloaded the demo of MyMusic Personal Librarian and it seems pretty good, but I am looking for some second opinions or some suitable alternatives before I purchase it.

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:55:00 -0800

If you can, wait for Delicious Monster to come out.

By: luriete

luriete — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 16:57:22 -0800

Yes, wait for it ... It will be out soon I hope!

By: subgenius

subgenius — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:43:10 -0800

Here's my solution, but it was a little expensive: I bought three 400 CD changers, loaded up all my CDs, and connected them to my Mac. I bought a hardware adapter and software package from TitleTrack that looked up all my CDs on CDDB and gave me instant access to them from my Mac.

It works great, but I am now planning to move everything to a RAID in Apple Lossless Audio format. I move a lot, and I don't want to have to move all the CD players and CDs and whatnot.

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:10:12 -0800

Subgenius: You have way too much free time, but that's just super cool. ;)

By: bcwinters

bcwinters — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:27:32 -0800

There's Library -- although the description and the icon make it seem like it is only for books, it has a full feature set for managing CDs and DVDs, too.

You can buy one of those cheapo cuecat barcode scanners on eBay to use with it and it will grab info from Amazon, etc.

By: nathan_teske

nathan_teske — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:54:09 -0800

bcwinters - Delicious Library is the next version of Library.

By: IshmaelGraves

IshmaelGraves — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 22:40:38 -0800

Grab a Z39.50 client and pull MARC records for your CDs from the Library of Congress and other open Z39.50 servers and import them into Koha or Emilda or a similar open-source ILS, with maybe a crosswalk to Dublin Core so you can also import them into the Scout Portal Toolkit which'll give you a bit more flexibility in terms of creating ontologies and the like.

Oh, you meant remotely practical solutions? LibDB looks promising but seems currently to be largely vaporware.

By: terrapin

terrapin — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 06:27:08 -0800

Wait for Delicious Library

By: hyperizer

hyperizer — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:01:55 -0800

I built a custom FileMaker database. Maybe it's overkill, but it works well for me. I wanted the ability to indicate whether something's a promo or a test pressing and to list composer separately from artist for classical recordings. Also, sorting by label was important. And the ability to add new formats (10" vinyl, 3" CD, etc.). I don't know if Delicious Library will have any of the above features. It seems more focused on actually lending items out (due dates?!).

By: kindall

kindall — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:42:31 -0800

Rip all of the CDs into iTunes, put them in a box, put the box in a closet. Make a playlist called "Songs I Legitimately Own on Physical CDs" and add all the songs to that playlist.

By: hyperizer

hyperizer — Wed, 11 Aug 2004 16:49:10 -0800

A conductor field is also a must....