Automatically Create a Personal Music Database.
Just Insert the CDs into Your Computer
to Get Instant CD Details and Cover Images.
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- Browse your music database, by artist, title or cover art
Sort & search your music, print lists, export data & track loans
- Check your music database on your iPhone or iPod touch
Export data to the Clz Music app (available in Apple's App Store) - Know exactly which CDs you own, and how many
Prevent duplicate purchases and keep a perfect insurance list
- Add CDs with ease: Just insert CDs into your computer
Automatic artist, title, all song titles, year, label, genre, cover art, etc.
Alternatively, search our online music database by Artist and Title, or by scanning barcodes.
For more information, please visit the Music Collector product page on the Collectorz.com website.
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Music Collector Standard edition  |
$29.95 |
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 CueCat - Simple CCD Scanner |
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 C37 - Efficient CCD Beam Scanner |
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 OPN-2001 - Deluxe Laser Scanner |
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The Collectorz.com online music database
Music Collector automatically downloads CD information, song titles and cover art from our own Collectorz.com online music database. There are three ways to search this database for CD information:1. Inserting the actual CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive
If you insert the actual disc, the software can scan the disc's unique ToC (Table of Contents). This ToC is then used to find the CD in the online CD database and retrieve the full details: artist, title, song titles, etc... including the cover image if we have one available. The online music database contains information for over 3.3 million different CD editions.Adding CDs to your personal database by ToC is highly recommend. Taking the actual disc from the box may seem like extra work, but it is well worth it because of the high "exact match" success rate of ToC searches (around 93%) and because you are guaranteed to get the song data for the exact edition you own.
2. Entering the Artist & Title
Alternatively, you can search the music database by typing the Artist and Title. This will give you multiple results to choose from, so that you can pick the one that best matches the edition you own. The advantage of this method is that you will not only see results from the Collectorz.com database, but also from the high-quality Discogs.com music database. Discogs entries often provide front plus back cover images, so it is worth browsing through the results to find the best one.3. Typing or scanning the barcode
The third method to search our online music database is by barcode (UPC or EAN). You can either type the barcode manually or use a barcode scanner to scan it. Any barcode scanner that supports keyboard emulation will work, but we recommend using one of the 3 scanners that Music Collector has special support for (see above).Discogs, freedb and MusicBrainz
The Collectorz.com online music database system uses a couple of "back-end" sources for music data, to complement its own data.MusicBrainz
The MusicBrainz online music database is a great online source for quality music data. It doesn't contain many ToCs (just under 400 thousand), but the data it has is always of a high standard. That is why the Collectorz.com server searches MusicBrainz first for ToCs that it does not recognize itself. CDs that are found in MusicBrainz are automatically cached in the Collectorz.com database for future reference.freedb.org
freedb.org is a free online CD database (under the GPL license). It can be searched by ToC and a (somewhat) unique identifier called the CDDBID. Our Collectorz.com database server uses freedb as a last resort for ToC that can not be found in either its own CD database or the MusicBrainz database. CD entries returned from freedb are cached in the Collectorz.com music database too.Discogs
The 3rd data source that is used is the Discogs.com online music database. The great thing about Discogs is that they have a lot of cover images for CDs, both front and back. And not only for CDs, also for vinyl and casettes. It cannot be searched by ToC though, only by artist & title or barcode. You will see many results from the Discogs music database if you search by Artist and Title in Music Collector's Add Albums Automatically screen.The Discogs.com server only allows 5,000 searches per day from the same IP address, which is not nearly enough for the high volume of searches generated by Music Collector users. So we are hosting our own copy of the MusicBrainz music database on our own server. The added benefit of this is that it makes searches fast and reliable. Also, it makes it possible to integrate Discogs.com results with our own results, sorted by relevance and completeness (e.g. entries that have full music data plus a front and back cover get a slightly higher ranking.)
Submitting data and images to the Collectorz.com Music Database
As explained above, our online music database is automaticaly "fed" from the freedb and MusicBrainz open source CD databases, but the main source for new CD entries and cover images is Music Collector users like you.So if you come across a CD that is not in our music database, you can help your fellow Music Collector users, by adding that CD manually and then submitting it for inclusion in the central online database, preferably including a "home-scanned" cover image.
The same holds for entries that are missing a cover image or have incorrect data (e.g. a typo in one of the song titles). Just complete and correct the entry you downloaded, then submit it back to us.
All submitted data is processed semi-automatically on a daily basis, so your submitted entries will be live in the central music database within 24 hours, ready to be enjoyed by other Music Collector users.
For more information, please check our Submission Guidelines.
Most popular CDs in our online music database, for week 29, 2010
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| Standard edition |
$29.95 |
| Pro edition |
$49.95 |
Barcode scanners (optional): |
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| CueCat (CCD) |
$19.95 |
| C37 (CCD Beam) |
$79.95 |
| OPN-2001 (Laser) |
$139.95 |
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Current versions:
Version 9.1.7 (Jun 21, 2010)
for Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000
Version 3.4.2 (Apr 6, 2010)
for Mac 10.4.9 or higher
Collectorz.com Customers
about Music Collector:
Quick and easy to use
"Just a quick "hello", and THANK YOU for what looks to be a WONDERFUL product!I've wanted to organize my collection of Early Music for some time and didn't know to turn. And with nearly 2,000 CDs, I was losing track of what I have, and where I have it!
I've started entering my CDs into the database and find it's very quick and easy to use!
I'm really enjoying myself, too!
Thanks again, and it's nice to know there are so many "helping hands" available if I need assistance. "
Order in my disorder
"I HAD to say to Collectorz Team that I've just upgraded Music Collector to version 9.0 Pro and it's fantastic.I've been using Music and Book Collector for many years now and every new version is a surprise and always beyond expectations. This new version that can link the database to my music files is what I needed. Absolutely GREAT.
Thank you so much for putting order in my disorder ;-) "
Does everything I need & more
"I can't tell you how much I love this software. It does everything I need and much more.I've always wanted to catalog all my CD's and tried to create my own database. However, I kept having to add fields and go back to edit every single CD. About 2 years ago, I gave up.
I've only cataloged about 150 in Music Collector, but, it's been a breeze. I know I've yet to discover all the ways it can manipulate the data, but, I'll get there.
I really like that it doesn't eat gobs of memory and there's no 'terminate-stay-ready' embedded in the software and sitting in my systray. (I hate those things.) Simple to use straight-forward software. I'm in heaven.
I believe this is going to save me a great deal of money, as I have a tendency to purchase duplicate CD's because I can't remember if I already own it. The online music retailers are going to be very unhappy and so will my friends, to whom I give all my duplicates.
Now, I can see the light at the end of the CD cataloging tunnel and it's not an oncoming train. I hope you get rich off of this; you deserve it for saving my CD collecting butt!
Thank you !"
I am impressed
"I just spent some time scanning in about 150 of my 700 CDs.Your software is amazing.
I have just started exploring it and already I am impressed. As an engineer and programmer, I understand the complexity of good database and user interface design.
WELL DONE !!!
I am looking forward to finding new features as I go further.
Keep up the good work.
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I had to write to say Bravo!
"I recently purchased your Music Collector Pro software and after entering about 250 CDs (a fraction of my collection) I had to write to tell you how pleased I am with the database.
So far, there's not a single thing that I haven't been able to achieve.
Too often people take good products for granted so I had to write to say Bravo!"
"My name is James C. Gebbia I live in the desert southwest in the wonderful state of Arizona in the great country of the United States. I first want to say your database for collectors (mainly CDs) is great! I have at the time of writing this 11,021 silver pressed factory CDs not including 99 cdrs of various colors that are band and/or band authorized issued. I add about 25-50 CDs monthly to my collection.
I have been using Music Collector to manage my cd collection now for about 3 years. I mainly listen to all genres of rock music from 1964 to present. I really enjoy Music Collector, it keeps my collection very well organized alphabetically by band name, title of cd, year released, label and number of tracks.
Without Music Collector I wouldn't know what to do with my collection. I love to add to the database when I find that rare CD that's not in the database, but thats pretty uncommon."
"I have an ever-growing admiration for Music Collector and the many nice features in it. I've been going through my Artists List, changing names to the style of "last name, first name". After many manual reformattings of the Sort Name for entries in the AL, I just now discovered what you've provided in the "down arrow Generate" button. What a nice feature! And it's not the first time I've said that to myself as I've continued to process our music collection into Music Collector!
You have really developed a sophisticated program! And being a retired teacher of, among things, relational database theory, I have some idea of how much work must have gone into making Music Collector as good as it is."
"Music Collector is a fantastic Program for Music Fans and Collectors who want to have the data of their Record-Collection with all details in one database. I tried different programs before. None was better than this! You buy it once for a very low price and you get a very good support plus regular updates.
You guys are doing a great Job and you know exactly what we collectors need. Go on like this! Thanks a lot for your great work! The program is absolutely fantastic."