by tbessie » Sun Jul 12, 2009 5:43 pm
Well, I just tried almost everything out there, and I can't say I really like any of them. They're all full of so much GUI candy, and yet lack very configurable import-from-file abilities, that I'm a bit disappointed in them. I spent about 4 hours last night entering all my discs (still have hard-drive files to enter) into some Excel spreadsheets, with complete info about title, # of discs, # of sides, format, etc. and it would be silly to do it all again. These programs all seem very geared towards automatically searching on the net for you from a title, UPC code, or scanning a disk. All very good if you're just starting a collection, but damn slow if you wanted to enter 1000 discs, all of which you've already catalogued in a file.
Oh well - maybe a straight database program or spreadsheet will be fine for my needs.
- Tim
Well, I just tried almost everything out there, and I can't say I really like any of them. They're all full of so much GUI candy, and yet lack very configurable import-from-file abilities, that I'm a bit disappointed in them. I spent about 4 hours last night entering all my discs (still have hard-drive files to enter) into some Excel spreadsheets, with complete info about title, # of discs, # of sides, format, etc. and it would be silly to do it all again. These programs all seem very geared towards automatically searching on the net for you from a title, UPC code, or scanning a disk. All very good if you're just starting a collection, but damn slow if you wanted to enter 1000 discs, all of which you've already catalogued in a file. :-P
Oh well - maybe a straight database program or spreadsheet will be fine for my needs.
- Tim