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destructSEAN
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 Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 8:57 am Post subject: Music cataloging software |
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Kind of a strange question, but can anyone here reccomend a reliable music cataloging program? I want to start the massive task of cataloging all of my demos, vinyls and cds into a database that I can export as a Excel or HTML file (or something similar).
Does anyone here have something like this?
It needs to be fairly simple and user friendly, as I think that I am going to try and convince my wife to do some of it for me... har har har  |
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Black_Fire
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 9:34 am Post subject: |
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Im using Open Office with such to Excel aplication and interface. Very easy sorting by band name, genere, country, year etc, fast adding. Try it.
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nexxxion
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| Why don't you use Excel if you already have it? |
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Hellfire Commando
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:06 pm Post subject: |
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I use Excel as well. It works perfectly.
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iron tyrant
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject: |
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Expect hours upon hours of frustration when you can't find a year a certain album was released, if you can't decide if Mercyful Fate is now more of a swedish band, this kind of crap.
If you start from scratch, I say DON'T FUCKING DO IT and go to the pub instead. That's much, much more rewardeing I tell you. 
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destructSEAN
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:24 pm Post subject: |
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| nexxxion wrote: | | Why don't you use Excel if you already have it? |
I used to use it a few years ago, but a guy from work suggested that I use some kind of organizational software (he uses something like that for his DVD collection). I had a look on the internet and found a bunch of programs, but still had the feeling that Excel might be better in the end as I don't have to use a pre-set template or some bullshit interface. I was just curious if anyone here had any other suggestions.
OK, looks like I'll stick with Excel then. |
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destructSEAN
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| iron tyrant wrote: | Expect hours upon hours of frustration when you can't find a year a certain album was released, if you can't decide if Mercyful Fate is now more of a swedish band, this kind of crap.
If you start from scratch, I say DON'T FUCKING DO IT and go to the pub instead. That's much, much more rewardeing I tell you. |
HAHA! Yes, I know that feeling. I gave up trying to catalog all of this bullshit about 8 or 9 years ago. I used to have a real fucking headache trying to decide the release date of demo collection cds and shit like that... should I list it under the individual release dates of the demos, or under the release date of the collection? Fuck that... I think that this time I am not going to be such a fucking nerd about it all and just simplify the whole process.
In any case, I'll need to drink a lot of alcohol before I start and correct all of the spelling mistakes the next day  |
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Black_Fire
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Endless Morbidity
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| Can somebody point me in direction of a pirate copy of Excel? |
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Black_Fire
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Uncolored
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:26 pm Post subject: |
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I did a list of my stuff in 2003 I think and I spent 1 week doing it 2 or 3 hours per day but I dunno how big your collection is.
anyway when I was tapetrading I used the typemachine (still got it and it still works!) I bought for building my zine, nowadays only notepad is real!
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nexxxion
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Endless Morbidity wrote: | | Can somebody point me in direction of a pirate copy of Excel? |
Use Calc from OpenOffice. Same as Excel, easier to use, and can handle Excel files too:
http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html |
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Ichor
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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I've tried 3 times cataloging my collection... but with no success.
That's an absolute pain in the neck and I guess you have to be a total masochist to complete such task 
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Endless Morbidity
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| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 2:54 pm Post subject: |
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Downloaded.
So how do I make a list of Artist/Origin/Release/Format/Year/Label/Info?
Document? Spreadsheet? I'm new to this..obviously. |
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