Stewart:
>I'm downloading the Music Collector trial now and have just tried out a
>trial of CD Trustee.  Is there anyone who has experience with both?  Music
>Collector seems like it's a bit more customizable: for example, I can
>search on any field I want -- all the records I own on Not Lame, for
>example -- and I can catalogue my wife's ethnic folk CDs by country of
>origin.  However, CD Trustee, if I decided to spring for the Pro edition,
>allows me to insert records into the collection without inserting a
>physical CD, which means it'll auto-search for any of the, oh, 8000 LPs and
>singles we own.  It's really a tough call!

I agree that CD Trustee's "Find" function could be more robust, but you can
indeed sort your collection by label (see the "Reports" tab) and even
ethnicity, if you entered that info in one of the two user-defined fields
(see the "Filter" tab).

Haven't used Music Collector, mainly because I found CD Trustee first.  But
Stewart's indication that you can't manually insert records into Music
Collector would be a deal-killer for me.  As I learned when entering by
collection into CD Trustee, there are a whole bunch of CDs which are not in
the CDDB database. CD Trustee lets you do those "by hand," and you can then
submit that info to CDDB itself, so the next guy won't have that problem;
I've done that for many Audities-type small-label and self-released discs.

I'm hoping that no one will convincingly proclaim the superiority of Music
Collector, because  there's no WAY I'm gonna spend all those hours
re-entering all my CDs into a new program. I'm committed!

Drew
np: Steven McDonald Group - THIS IS NOT...