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How to catalogue your music collection

James Thornton

James Thornton

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The World’s biggest music collectionI love music, but not as much as this guy, who’s put his collection of 3 million records and 300,000 CDs up for sale on eBay. If you’re thinking of bidding then make sure you’ve got at least $3 million in your account because that’s how much experts are predicting the collection will cost. If you do manage to win the bid then you’re going to need some way of cataloguing the records. In fact, even if you don’t bid, it’s worth keeping your tunes in some kind of order to aid your listening.

Start by grabbing a copy of Audiophiler, a software app that helps you to organise your collection of CDs, LPs, cassettes, Mini Discs, or any other medium you keep your music in. All you need to do is shove each CD into your computer and Audiophiler will pull off all the information about the album (even the sleeve art) from the online CDDB database.

It takes one-click so you needn’t worry about typing everything in yourself. Once you’ve catalogued everything you can do all manner of cool things such as printing reports and sorting and group by artist, genre, media format, year, along with all sorts of other fields. Heck, you can even record where and when items were bought and how much they cost. Now, where did I put that $3 million???

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