When you have all your music on your PC, it’s really important to have it well sorted and catalogued so you can always reach your favorite tracks. But making sure your music library is kept up to date is a gargantuan task to say the least. Even though this is relatively easy to do in iTunes, you can also use a program specifically made to handle this chore. eTunes is a music organizer with which you can create play lists, rewrite ID3 tags and rearrange your music library. Since eTunes doesn’t actually load up any of your tracks it barely takes up any memory and you don’t have to worry about it slowing down your PC while you are entering modifications to your track titles.

It only takes a few minutes to get to grips with eTunes. Once the program has loaded the information for all your songs from iTunes, it displays a list of your complete music library. All you need to do is select the entries you wish to modify and type in the modifications. Luckily you can make changes in batch, something that comes in handy if you need to change the name of an artist and don’t want to work your way track by track. The search bar at the bottom of the program is rather rudimentary but it comes in handy looking for a particular song. While eTunes is not a music player it still lets you listen to your favorite songs. Clicking on the big play button at the top left will launch the selected track in your default music player.

eTunes is a modest little program to help you organize your tracks. While it sports a clean interface and convenient tools, I’m not sure it offers anything that iTunes doesn’t.

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There's plenty of DVD and CD managers out there but there are few that allow you to organise DVDs, CDs, DivX files and even cassettes in one easy to browse and search database.

Since I'd rather have my video and audio collection all under one program, I quite liked Ant Movie Catalog. First of all, it's completely free and the source code is open to modification by its users who are brought together by the program's forum. There are several reasons why this database appeals.

First of all is simplicity - it's not bloated in any way so searching and navigating through your collection either by format, genre, alphabetically or year is extremely easy and fast. Second of all, it takes a lot of the hard work out of cataloguing your collection because it imports information about your media from the internet using scripts. These include scripts for the IMDB, DVDFR (a French DVD website), Allocine /a French film site) and Culturalia (a Spanish multimedia site).

In addition, it can store all information in two formats - either binary or XML - the latter makes it possible to export your collection to Excel and other database applications. If you do add too many album and film covers to Ant Movie Catalog, it can start to slow down a bit but there is the option of linking to external pictures rather than importing them. You can also display in graphical format, stats relating to your multimedia collection - how many of a certain format you have, genre, date etc.

Lightweight, easy to use and covering just about any conceivable media you might own, Ant Movie Catalog is an easy and free way to bring your collection together.

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EMDB is a small utility to keep track of your DVD collection. With an automatic import from the database of IMDB, cover preview, a loan tracker, search function and multi-language user interface. And best of all... it's free!

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My Movies is a movie collection management and playback tool for Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition. With My Movies you are able to index your movies with automatically downloaded data from the Internet, and then browse movies, actors, directors and much more. You can share your movie database with multiple clients, and configure each client to its own parental control limitation, and set a PIN number to view the full collection.

My Movies is available in about 10 different languages, and movie data can be downloaded in English, German, French or Japanese. The application allows you to filter your collection by genres, actors, directors, MPAA parental level and much more. My Movies can even help you copy your DVD's to hard drive storage for easy playback.

Pick of the features:

Index all your movies automatically

Share collection on multiple clients

Create and save movie filters

Full parental controls

Copy DVDs to disk with just your remote

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Soundbase was created to fill a gap in the large amount of free and commercial mp3 players. It doesn't pretend to have the ultimate MP3 or audio solution, but it will most likely fit somewhere into your MP3 playing experience. As a player, as a tag editor or as an organizer. It will always give you a quick way of doing common tasks.

Soundbase uses the windows subsystem that compresses and uncompresses audio files, the Audio Compression Manager (ACM). By using this windows subsystem the player does not require any additional DLLs or drivers, and as such a basic install of Soundbase will take less then 2mb (5mb if you install the 60 basic skins too). Windows itself supports the most common formats (MP3 , WAV, WMA). You might need to read the help section on installing more sophisticated formats (APE, FLAC, Ogg) to enable playback for those files. The Help section provides you with links to free (ACM) codecs packs and will give you information on how to best install the different codec packs and the teams personal preferences on quality and performance of these codec packs.

You can skin Soundbase, organize your music to different locations, edit tag information, search, filter, create playlists. Soundbase doesn't use any registry entries but stores all in one ini file, it is completely anonymous, it can run from any location with limited user access rights, and much more.

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iTunes is, for many reasons, the most popular music organizer. But that doesn’t' mean you can't use alternate cataloguers to manage your ever growing MP3 collection.

One of those alternatives is Jukes, a full featured music manager with which you can bring some organization to your chaotic MP3 library – especially if it's already too big to be manually managed. The program can automatically add all the albums in your collection by simply selecting your music folder. No need to type in any data!

Jukes displays very detailed information about each track and album, including album art. You can search the database using filters, see statistics about your music collection and even generate a report with a list of all your songs The program also features an embedded player, although we could say this is not its main strength – it ended up freezing the whole application during our tests.

If you'd like to test something different to iTunes, you may as well give Jukes a go. Though not as powerful, it's still a handy, full featured music manager.

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An extremely small, very fast and easy to use media cataloging tool. You can use it to index files stored on removable media (CD-ROMs, LS120, Iomega Zip and Jaz disks, or even diskettes), hard disks or net drives, and create searchable catalogs that can be used without having access to original media. Searching capabilities are based on file name, date and size.

Additional features include filtering options, search duplicates or singles, customizable date format, etc. Found files can be opened (executed) or deleted directly, if they are present. Drag&drop support. Directory trees, MP3 album/song lists can be printed, disk space usage can be investigated. Single file executable, no install needed.

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If you find yourself with more and more movies on your computer and you are looking for an efficient way to catalogue them, then look no further. Before wasting time on the many variations that just don't meet the standard you're after, try VisualDivX.

This handy cataloguer is very useful for creating a list of your movies quickly and to get the details of every one automatically using a database available on the net.

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Folder management is something that can easily be improved on in Windows and The Magic Folder aims to do exactly this.

The Magic Folder is basically a utility that helps you categorize and move files. When you drag a file into the utility, it will look at the file extension and place Document files (like DOC, XLS, PPT, etc) in the Documents folder. The same principle works for other file extensions - image files like (JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF, etc) are automatically placed into the Pictures folder. It's not fixed in stone however where the files you go. You can add/remove file extensions recognized by The Magic Folder and change where files go or even add your own folder locations. Alternatively, you can configure the program to prompt you for the storage location each time you move a folder.

The program does not operate entirely independently of Windows Explorer - when you click The Magic Folder you can select from the list of folders you want to access and then jump directly to that folder in Windows Explorer. Most recently, the developer has updated the folder graphics to encompass four different folder types.

If you don't have time to manage your folders or check where they've gone, The Magic Folder will ensure that you're desktop stays as tidy as possible.

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Personal Library Manager is an application that will help you manage your book collection. Personal Library Manager is distributed as freeware so you can download and start using it right now.

This is what Personal Library Manager has to offer:

• ISBN lookup with cover retrieval
• Library statistics
• Search through title and author
• Filter records
• Create, backup, open, and compact database
• Settings stored in xml so it's portable

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If, like many tech-minded humans, you own a bumper collection of CD-R's, Zip Disks, DVD-ROMs, or hard disks containing countless documents, files, programs and music, then you'll be aware of how difficult it is to keep track of everything. Unless you're super ogranized then nine times out of ten when you want to find a certain file on any of these disks, you have no idea which disk they are on.

Simple Disk Catalog scans your disks deeply and generates a catalog of each one in a database. This catalog contains all the directory tree of your disks and it permits you to browse them as if you were browsing them through Windows Explorer.

The app has a unique search tool which works in a similar way to online search engines like Google. By using this search tool, it's possible to you locate a file on any of your disks in a mere matter of seconds. It's even possible to search inside compressed files.

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With BookDB you can enter all your books with author, category, publisher etc and print them out in a variety of formats. Why would you need such a thing? Well, if you're always going to book sales and buying bargains only to get home and find you've doubled up, take a printout with you! BookDB has a super-condensed print mode so you'll need a magnifying glass, but at least it'll save a tree or two.

BookDB also has lending library features. With them, you can add borrowers, loan out books, add multiple copies and so on. If you'd like to test these new features, just create a blank file called 'library.txt' in the same folder as BookDB2.exe and restart the program.

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This clever app allows you to manage catalogs of all multimedia files in your collection. No matter whether it's on your hard drive, CD Rom, DVD, floppy disk or portable Flash device, the program will index and manage it.

Once you have connected a device with the files to the computer, indicating the file's locations, the program will remember all the information on MP3, WMA, MP4, MPC, APE, OGG, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG, WMV, Video and Audio CD files. This information will be stored in the database and you won't need to call to all your friends or search all shelves, looking for the necessary disk

You can search the database based on any parameter from your catalog in any order: artists, albums, tracks, genres, bitrates, ratings, moods and more. You can easily find the track providing a word from the lyrics or the title or some additional information - file size and its frequency. Searching for duplicates by file names, their internal information and tags will help to sort out your media collection.

Major features of the program:

• Manages audio and video files on different carriers
• Supports MP3, WMA, M4a, APE, OGG, MP+, AAC, FLAC, WAV, AVI, MPEG, WMV & CD
• Works with M3U and PLS playlists
• Prints reports
• Stores catalogs in the database which does not require an additional installation
• Shows all possible information about the files, even if they are not on your PC
• Sorts media by artist/album/year/bitrate/genre/mood/tempo/category etc.
• Search tracks by data contained in the tags such as lyrics, file names, and sizes
• Search for duplicate files by tags/file names and sizes, their media information
• Get info about songs (Title, Artist, Album, Year) directly from Internet via CDDB
• Supports cdplayer.ini file for Audio CD
• Tag editor in MP3, MP4, WMA, OGG, MPC, APE files
• Read and write MP3-tags of ID3v1, ID3v2 and Lyrics3 versions
• Displays the lyrics and pictures stored in the files

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SoftCAT is a database application designed to help you organize your software. Not only will SoftCAT help you know what you have and where it is, but it will also help you keep track of important information like serial number, registration name, and other registration information. You never know when you NEED this information!

More than 30 data fields will help you track information like program title, version, publisher, platform, type (commercial, freeware, shareware, etc.), category (Desktop Enhancements, Games, Utilities, etc.), price, installation date, installation folder, product homepage, serial number, and registration name.

You can password protect your database to prevent unwanted users from opening your database. Use the backup function to make backup copies of your valuable data. SoftCAT uses pop-up menus for quick access and navigation. SoftCAT comes with a sample database to get you started and a comprehensive context-sensitive on-line help system. SoftCAT is intuitive and easy-to-use, and you will soon find that SoftCAT is all you ever need to keep track of your software.

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Coollector is an Encyclopedia of Movies, Video Collection Manager and Shopping Tool
combined inside a child-play to use Freeware.

In other words, Coollector blends 3 types of information into a unique interface: your cinematographical culture + your video collection + the videos available in store. This innovative 3-in-1 concept offers a completely new experience because each part interacts deeply and naturally with the others.

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Disclib is a CD collection organizer program. It may be used as a catalogue of CDs. After creating the catalogue, disclib stores file and folder names and tree, allows user to categorize folders and files, and allows searching all the files from the collection CDs without need to place them in CD reader. Disclib may place in the catalogue any windows folder not only folders on CDs. Disclib has a customizable Multilanguage functionality. The program also extracts mp3 info.

Features:

• Add filenames from any folder tree (CD, DVD, HDD, floppy, any windows folder tree)
• Categorizing
• Search, specify categories in search
• Customizable exporting (reporting)
• Parallel tree - better categorizing
• Tags

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When your CD collection outgrows all the available shelves of your bookcase, you know it's time for a bit of organization. And the easiest way to organize a CD collection is by creating a catalog.

Visual CD enables you to create that CD catalog in just a few simple steps. Insert the disk into the CD drive, let Visual CD index its contents and save it as a fully searchable catalog. This means that you can later on explore, search and find files that are saved on CD even if the physical disc is not in the drive.

Visual CD doesn't work only with CD: it also supports DVD, floppy disks, removable hard drives and even folders in your system hard drive. What strikes me is the fact that each drive you explore must be saved as a new catalog, whereas other similar tools save explored drives as categories inside one single catalog.

The program features also very interesting advanced functions such as a duplicate files finder, a file splitter, a photo renaming tool, a playlist generator and a thumbnail maker, among others.

Visual CD lets you save the contents of your CD and DVD in separate catalogs so that you can browse and search your collection without having to insert each disk one by one

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Griffith is a movie collection manager application. Adding items to the movie collection is as quick and easy as typing the film title and selecting a supported source. Griffith will then try to fetch all the related information from the Web.

Griffith is a cross-platform application and is known to run on GNU Linux, Microsoft Windows and MacOS X systems. Probably, it will run on other POSIX compatible operating systems where a gtk+ environment is available, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris.

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DVD Collector is a handy application that allows you to manage your DVD collection. Whether you have 5 DVDs or 500, DVD Collector is the easiest way to manage them.

Enter your titles by hand, or do a search of our online database and download disc information. Extensive customization features mean that you can store as little or as much information about your collection as you like, and it's all stored on your own computer where it's easy to back up or move to another machine.

Take a look at some of the features that DVD Collector has to offer:

• Customizable interface amnd data fields
• Supports up to 4 images per DVD and 2 per Boxset
• Powerful Purchase Manager allows you to keep track of your collection and its value
• Loan Manager lets you keep an eye on the DVDs you lend to people
• You can keep your DVDs organised in folders, just like Windows Explorer
• Drag'n'drop support
• Password protection for files and individual folders
• Easy to use search mode
• Report printing
• Your collection is stored in a single file (easy to backup or move to other machines)
• You can keep multiple collection files

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Flickz is an ideal solution for keeping track of your DVD movie library. The main aims in designing Flickz were speed, compactness and linkage to other data sources. Whereas many other movie organiser programs that are widely available allow you to record extremely detailed information about every aspect of your DVD collection Flickz, by contrast, stores only a modest but important sub-set of the total amount of information available.

The real power of Flickz lies in it's unique Display Filter search facility and the in-depth hyperlinked cross-referencing built into the compendious HTML web pages that are generated by the program. These pages not only form the basis of a self-contained personalised web site, but also serve as a research springboard into The Internet Movie Database via a movie title or cast member link.

Flickz also creates a corresponding sub-set of web pages that are optimised for viewing on a PDA type hand-held device. As well as the facility to export the details as text, there is also a comprehensive backup and restore facility to ensure that your data is always safe and sound.

Entering a new title is simplicity itself, since all necessary details, including a thumbnail image and plot summary are automatically imported from The Internet Movie Database. This does, of course, assume that you have a working internet connection, preferably broadband. In fact without such a connection, Flickz will not be of much benefit to you!

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