I wonder if anyone has extensive experience with jRiver, media library
software for digital files. It has received wide praise over the years. It
can read and process into libraries CDs. It can handle - I believe - all
the sundry audio file formats.

 I have thousands of lps as well.The question is this: will jRiver handle
the cataloguing of lps, even if there is no digital file attached? I harbor
the hope - optimistic for sure - of digitizing some of my most cherished
lps.

L. H. Kevil
Out to pasture, Univ of Missouri


On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Stephen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I use Collectorz's Music Collector software for my collection of about 2800
> recordings (CD, vinyl, and digital files), and find it extremely useful.
> It's not perfect--it pulls info from sources (Amazon, for example, or data
> uploaded to the Collectorz database by other users) that are not always
> 100%
> accurate, so I usually have to do some editing. But it does allow easy
> searching of artists, conductors, orchestras, labels, genres, etc. It
> allows for recordings with multiple artists, composers, orchestras, etc.
> And you can specify where the recording is stored.
>
> You can catalog recordings in several ways: 1) Place a CD in your
> computer's CD drive, and let the program scan it; 2) Use a barcode scanner
> on the back of the CD case; 3) Type in the UPC or title, and let the
> program
> search for matches; 4) Point the program to digital files on your computer
> or backup device, and let it scan those; or 5) Enter info manually. With
> #1-4, covers are downloaded automatically from various sources; with #5,
> after adding the recording, you use the program to search for a cover,
> which
> is then downloaded and added to the database. (This last method can also
> be
> used with methods 1-4 to get a different cover than the one automatically
> downloaded.)
>
> I've been impressed by the constant improvements in the program since I
> purchased it several years ago. My only complaint is that there is yet no
> simple search-and-replace that allows you to replace (for example) "G-Dur"
> with "G major".
>
>
> Stephen Peithman, Producer/Host, “Connections”
> Capital Public Radio | capradio.org | 7055 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento, CA
> 95826
> Listener supported Public Radio | Licensed to Sacramento State
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Marsha Maguire
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 9:35 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Sound recordings cataloging software
>
> Hi, Peter,
>
> As discussed earlier, there are some free and inexpensive applications out
> there that should allow you to capture existing MARC or other descriptive
> metadata and load it into a database. A good place to start looking for
> such
> software is the American Library Association's Automating Libraries: A
> Selected Annotated Bibliography (ALA Library Fact Sheet 21, 2014),
> available
> at http://www.ala.org/tools/libfactsheets/alalibraryfactsheet21. One
> product
> mentioned there (although it doesn't seem to work with MARC data) is Music
> Collector at Collectorz.com:
> http://www.collectorz.com/music/ I have no idea how complete the Music
> Collector database is (from which you can download records into your home
> database), but according to one review, Amazon is also searched. There is
> an
> optional barcode reader add-on.
>
> A similar product is Readerware Music Database, which lets you scan in the
> UPC barcode (or enter other info like Title, etc.). It then "collects full
> information from a number of different sources including reviews, cover
> art,
> full disk and track listings" for your home database:
> http://www.readerware.com/index.php/products/details/music_details
> Both these products offer free trials, and both are very inexpensive.
>
> Another option is CollectiveAccess, which, although it's intended primarily
> for archival and museum collections, can import MARC and other data (how
> simple this process is I'm not sure): http://collectiveaccess.org/. You
> could download MARC records and export them in various formats with the
> wonderful MarcEdit, which is free: http://marcedit.reeset.net/ Presumably,
> you could then load them into CollectiveAccess.
>
> As far as I know, All Music Guide metadata isn't free, but if that is
> inaccurate, I'd love to be corrected.
>
> I hope you find software that works for you, Peter, and if you discover
> something fabulous, please let us know!
>
> Marsha Maguire (retired LC cataloger)
>