Date:         Fri, 20 May 2005 11:29:41 -0500
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Hi!

I might be totally off and this might have been discussed before, but has
ever anybody tried musiccollector from www.collectorz.com.
I catalogued my mostly pop and rock cds and albums with it and it works
well for me. [I have ca. 1500 cds and 400 albums]
Just a thought....

Erik Dix

P.S.: I am not in any way affiliated with the company or their owners!



At 11:01 AM 5/20/2005, you wrote:
>I know at least 50 people in my local area with CD collections of 1,500 or
>more.  Some are classical, some jazz, some theatre music, many are of
>rock, country and other popular music, polka bands, some are ethnic, etc.
>
>Since I only pretend to know everyone, let's assume there are at least an
>additional 250 such collectors in the greater DC area.  If this area
>comprises about 1% of the U.S. population, there are surely 25,000 such
>colllections in non-institutional and business collections in the U.S.  My
>gut feeling is that this is too few by a factor of at least 4 or 5,
>espcially as so many now have CD burners.
>
>Except for classical music and jazz, most selections last about three
>minutes.  Some are by one performer but a great number include items by
>others, sometimes many others, which makes shelving them by performer
>quite difficult.
>
>If the average CD holds 20 selections and there are 2,000 of them in a
>collection, then there are 40,000 selections to be considered.
>
>Selections recorded by one performer must indicate all performers on the
>first screen (or subsequent ones if it is, say, the Gounod "Ave Maria.")
>
>Performers make a studio recording, perhaps a second or more at a later
>time, and also have the same title issued from a concert broadcast, a
>broadcast (a concert with no audience present), a "from the audience"
>recording, etc.  There will be copies on CD from 78s, cylinders, 45s, LPs,
>audio and video cassettes, DVDs, etc.  Some will be manufactured items,
>some home-made CD or DVDs.
>
>The CD collector is faced with finding a particular selection by a
>perticular performer from a particular recording event.
>
>The equipment he uses or will use in the future will be a variation on a
>CD/DVD player, probably in a quiet computer, where he can toggle back
>while the music is playing and access his catalog on his TV screen- the
>convergece of these two screen uses are in your stores now.
>
>He is faced with, say, 2,000 CDs.  He has to easily find the selection he
>wants and lay his hands on it.
>
>He must then be able to see, in Schwann/WERM format, a list of the
>versions he has of that selection with enough data appearing on the screen
>to enable him to choose the one he is trying to find.  He can get the
>details unique to this item by clicking on it and viewing a second screen
>but the recording date has to appear on that first screen, since that is
>an order in which recordings by a given performer will be listed.  Perhaps
>then, clicking on an icon will give him the phsical location.
>
>If he can't do that, then the catalog is of no use to him.
>
>Steven Smolian
>
>
>
>
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