How I enter my [few] classical CDs into CATraxx...

Posted by David Spear on December 6, 2002 at 09:17:19

In Reply to: Anyone know any good cd/lp cataloguing software? posted by jkend on December 4, 2002 at 18:58:59:

Don't know if you'll find this info helpful -- As mentioned before, the main problem is the basic structure of CDDB (and also the fact that all the records are entered by different users, so there is absolutely no consistency), so any program that pulls info from CDDB is going to have problems.

In any case, for classical, I enter three items in the "Artist" field using the following format: composer (conductor, orchestra). Since CATraxx supports substring searches (and also wildcards and boolean operators), I can pull out listings of any subset of my collection that I want, e.g. everthing by Beethoven, everything by Beethoven by a certain conductor and/or orchestra, all classical music by composers starting with "B" on a specific record label, etc., etc. This also works for tracks -- oops, I guess you classical guys call them "movements" or something ;-)

The only problem is that no CDDB records are entered in this format, so I have to edit them pretty extensively after downloading. The good thing is that you only have to enter this information for the CD itself, then use the "apply artist to tracks" function to label all the tracks.

Classical CDs containing works by several composers require a bit more typing in.

It's a lot of work to edit the downloaded information, but it's still a heck of a lot easier than typing in everything manually.

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Topic - Anyone know any good cd/lp cataloguing software? - jkend 18:58:59 12/04/02 (15)

How I enter my [few] classical CDs into CATraxx... - David Spear 09:17:19 12/06/02 (2)

Re: How I enter my [few] classical CDs into CATraxx... - jkend 09:28:49 12/06/02 (1)

LOL! Too bad NO program can find CDs that have been dropped behind the couch! [NT] - David Spear 20:24:15 12/06/02 (0)

Still looking for a good one for Classical - cawson@onetel.net.uk 18:44:59 12/05/02 (3)

Re: Still looking for a good one for Classical - jkend 19:08:28 12/05/02 (2)

Re: Still looking for a good one for Classical - cawson@onetel.net.uk 19:56:45 12/05/02 (1)

Re: Still looking for a good one for Classical - jkend 20:09:22 12/05/02 (0)

CATraxx 2000 is great. - David Spear 16:01:33 12/05/02 (3)

Re: CATraxx 2000 is great. - jkend 17:34:37 12/05/02 (2)

Re: CATraxx 2000 is [not so] great [for classical]. - David Spear 17:43:06 12/05/02 (1)

Re: CATraxx 2000 is [not so] great [for classical]. - jkend 18:29:28 12/05/02 (0)

I use Music Tracker - artemus 07:58:21 12/05/02 (3)

thanks - jkend 08:03:14 12/05/02 (2)

Just remembered - artemus 08:46:57 12/05/02 (1)

Re: Just remembered - jkend 11:05:03 12/05/02 (0)

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How I enter my [few] classical CDs into CATraxx... - David Spear 09:17:19 12/06/02 (2)

Re: How I enter my [few] classical CDs into CATraxx... - jkend 09:28:49 12/06/02 (1)

LOL! Too bad NO program can find CDs that have been dropped behind the couch! [NT] - David Spear 20:24:15 12/06/02 (0)

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