It is beyond me why everyone coming up with a new database system for music thinks that people will buy it to catalogue everything they have just so they don't have to write down who borrowed their scratched Amy Winehouse CD. Many things that would be important are missing, such as bit rate, format and track number - and lots of other things you could easily gather if you're already importing the info from iTunes. Hay una versin en CD (700,7 MB Ms reducida con 93.500 artculos, 10 de imgenes) y otra en DVD ( 4,4G Todos los artculos, 886.000, 45 de imgenes. The main downside is it's very, very similar to DVDPedia and barely specific about music at all, apart from the custom fields and the iTunes and online database embedding. CDPedia es software Libre, por eso puedes descargar la imagen ISO y regalar el contenido a familiares y amigos.
Many nice things like the full screen mode, customisable info views and Discogs links make this worthwile. Why there is no easier way of scanning a hard drive for media, I have no idea - it does work with Windows software since 1825. Unlike DVDpedia you can even add albums automatically from an external hard drive - long as you copy it all into iTunes, that is. This one, however, let's you shape your collection pretty much the way you want. And: it can be customized quite a lot, since its publishers did not make the mistake of trying to make the application think for you, which seems to be what almost every app programmer is after - resulting in apps with very limited functionality and often horrible results. That said, CDpedia (like its sibling DVDpedia) looks promising - with a good number of downsides.įirst-up, it's pretty much the only one that looks halfway ok, aesthetically speaking. Media databases are a nightmare to begin with - if you search the web for what's on the market, you won't believe your eyes, it's so bad. The best among the many disappointing catalogue apps