Inventory of vinyl - what software do you use?

Certainly Access is a much more robust program than Excel as a relational database. I taught myself both programs long ago because I needed them in school and, later work. I've yet to find a softwater package in which I had an interest that I could not kick beat senselss in time. But, if you don't want to spend that time to learn and are more of a click and go person, the CDTrustee software is a cheap and effective alternative. Cheaper than buying Access or Excel off the shelf, too! (But, does anyone actually buy those programs?) ;-)

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Larry, why do so many of your posts simply say .bookmark.? Is it a way to infer to others that the thread is of sufficient interest toi bookmark, or does Audiogon automatically place that line when someone bookmarks a thread? I ask because yours are the only posts where I have seen this.

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Hi David,
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"Bookmark" does signify a thread that holds interest for me and it is a convenient way to have that thread pop up on my "forum threads" automatically when I sign on.
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I usually use it when I am not posting in that thread but want it to come up for me anytime some one adds the thread. It saves scanning all of the discussion forums each day for what I am trying to follow.
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Hope all is well on your side.
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Rgds,
Larry
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I am still using a program called Audiofile which was reviewed in Stereophile many years ago.

Here are some of the issues I've run into.

The biggest issue is that the author of the program walked away from it a few years ago. I asked if, since he was disowning it, he would give me programming information so that I could maintain it for my own personal use (It has glitches when run in XP). Even though he admitted it was just a template over Filemaker Pro, he wanted to sell it to me. So.....To the extent possible you want to deal with a reputable software company that you can count on.

In the 5 years I owned the program before he disowned it there were no updates or fixes provided. They were promised. See last comment above.

This program allowed for the printing of a listing but did not provide a means to customize the listing so that what you spend time printing out is what you really want.

You could not print to a file or to html so there was no way to create something you could post or send to a friend.

The media categories were fixed at dat, vinyl, cd, tape, minidisc. This is a problem. It forces me to lump sacd and dvd-a into cd and 7inch 45rpm and all 78rpms into vinyl. I never use dat, minidisc or tape.

The help features were terrible.

A really useful piece of cataloging software would combine the cataloging feature with a music server feature all in one program. How hard could that be?

I could go on and on. Flexibility of fields and field titles should be a high priority.