# Organizing and indexing music collection

Category: Jam Session

## Post 1 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Tuesday, 06-Nov-2007 13:51:57

Ok, wasn't sure if this would be a geek question or jam session. I have recently got into classical music and I want to remember what pieces I have as my collection grows. I thought early on, while I'm still not familiar with everything, maybe a way to catalogue them would be a good idea.
This is what I'd like to do and I'm wondering if there is a program or a way to do this that I'm not aware of.
What if I had a form to fill out and my responces were automatically put in place. Say: composer, performer, piece, and so on. I'd fill that out and it would fall into alphibetical order for example.
Smile, am I making any sense? A similar idea to the braille N Speak phonebook.
What do y'all think? Aside from I might be nuts...grin!

## Post 2 by soaring eagle (flying high again!) on Tuesday, 06-Nov-2007 14:17:46

I have used c dex and it fills in the album name and tracks. sorry thats all I know.

## Post 3 by Dirty Little Oar (I'd rather be rowing.) on Monday, 12-Nov-2007 15:56:47

I use Microsoft Excel for stuff like this. You can make whatever categories you want and have excel sort it alphabetically by artist, album, song title or whatever.

## Post 4 by frequency (the music man) on Monday, 12-Nov-2007 16:58:30

if you buy cd's, use exact audio copy. if you don't, you'd better name the songs how you like and tag them when you get them. otherwise it can turn into a mess, and that can get out of hand real quick.

## Post 5 by Dirty Little Oar (I'd rather be rowing.) on Monday, 12-Nov-2007 18:38:43

Oh wait, I'm a moron. You're probably talking about organizing your stuff on a computer. My brain is clearly malfunctioning. I was thinking you wanted to know what CDs you had and what was on them. I use Excel to keep track of my CD collection. I have no advice about storing stuff on the computer. My music collection on the computer is a bit of a mess and I haven't found any software that I like.

## Post 6 by Polka dots and Moonbeams (I've now got the bronze prolific poster award! now going for the silver award!) on Thursday, 15-Nov-2007 19:55:16

Nope Okie, I think you get it. Sounds like excel or microsoft works database will be my best bet. I'm going a little old fashion for right now, and catiloguing them via my braille N Speak.
I downloaded a trial of some music database software, but it looks a bit too much for my needs. It is more meant for dj's.