I don't remember how I happened across Collectorz, but the first time I used it I thought 'MAN! Where has this been all the time I've been searching?' Then there was an update.įANTASTIC! Here's where it all goes south. Now I had a choice of using a years-old program with no updates and no support or finding a new program. I found one program I liked more than the others, but it was bought by some other company and dropped out of sight. In fact, if there were two or three features I wanted I felt pretty lucky. I'd found a few, but none of them did as much as I wanted out of the program. YEARS ago I was looking for a program to keep track of my growing CD collection. These folk have been around for a very long time with desktop library applications and, hopefully, will be around a very long time to come and continue to provide great support too. Although some have suggested it’s rather expensive, looking at who’s behind it () and my experience, the first time the whole process was easy and quick enough to catalogue my whole collections without giving up on the App, I feel it’s well worth it. I just browse as the mood takes me, looking at the art work and track listings using iPad or iPhone and once selected the location tells me how to quickly find it.ĬLZ is by far the best of several ‘library’ Apps I’ve paid for over many years. Using the ‘location’ field I don’t need to care much about which cabinet, rack, bookcase etc a specific CD is or which music is on digital files. I also catalogue SACDs and the, so far, few high resolution digital files I’ve also started to buy. In these cases the catalogue number worked for me except for three very obscure CDs that I needed to fully manually add including a cover picture. Such edits were needed as the barcode related to the wrong CD, mostly just the wrong version and a very few the wrong CD totally, or there was no CD found. Typically, each just needed a rapid barcode scan, with just a few percent needing a manual edit. In a few short sessions I catalogued over 500 CDs that were scattered about in various cabinets, racks, bookcases etc. For anyone wanting to access their CD, Vinyl or even digital file collection quickly, rather than try and remember what they have or where it is, this is a great App.

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