RE: Library Software

[Paul Miller <pmiller@xxxxxxx>]

Wow! that about sums up my review....

-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Stevens [mailto:adam@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 March 2001 12:52
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Library Software


I use an Access database (soon to be SQL Server) to catalog MP3 tracks
which
I've ripped from my CDs.  I also found the CDDB problem with compilation
CD's, but there are a few bits of software out there which will rename
the
ID tag depending on the file name - This works quite well as the files
are
generally saved as "<artist> - <track>.mp3".  I found
it surprisingly
pain-less to re-ID tag all my MP3s.

I'm not at home at the moment, and can't remember the name of the
software I
use to do this, however it also has a really nice feature which allows a
CSV
file to be created of all MP3 files, which can then be imported into a
database (or Excel).  I'll dig it out this evening if you're interested.

Take a look at http://zz9.dyndns.org/home/music/mp3search.asp
to see
what it
looks like (click on "login as guest", and wait a while... The
database
access is a little slow at the moment, hence the change to SQL Server
soon! - Mind you, there are over 10,000 MP3s there!).

Cheers,
Adam.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 12:11 PM
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Library Software
>
>
> Stuart,
>
> It's not what you want to hear, but I used Excel for my fiction
library
> (about 2000 books.)
>
> My logic was that
>
> - the data is fundamentally a single table so there wasn't
> particularly any
> mileage to gain out of normalising the data into anything relational.
>
> - where I've got repetitive data (like Author name) Excel does the
"copy
> down" or autofill nicely
>
> - I figured up front that I'd want to muck around with the fields. I
> subsequently added stuff like "series name" and "series
number" to the
> original
>
> On the CDs, I think the same applies. I've had trouble with CDDB on
> compilation CDs, where the "performer/artist" field _isn't_
at
> the CD level
> but the track level...
>
> Mark
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuart Grimshaw [mailto:stuart@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 March 2001 10:59
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Library Software
>
>
> Does anyone know of any software that will let me catalogue my
> CD/DVD/Video/MP3/Book collection?
>
> I had a cuecat shipped over from the states a while back, so
> something that
> can use that would be cool as well.
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