Music cataloguer

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Im looking for some software where I can easy catalogue my cds and lps. Preferably the software is connected to some kind of online database so I dont have to enter all the records information by hand (keyboard).

Any tips?

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I've ended up using iTunes as a cataloging tool. Many problems with this though because everything has to be a sound file on your hard drive. But, being able to query for a song or detail is nice and allows you to listen and catagorize at the same time.

The biggest shortcoming is that you can only track so much data, and you can't really track album level info. I've found that I've had to assign id numbers to both albums and artists (stored in year and bpm fields) so that I can link the data exportable from iTunes with external database. I keep album related info in a spreadsheet, and can query the two with Acess, sql, etc.

I heard Roots Natty Roots had a collection tracking function, but I've yet to get a copy.

after thoughts on the dance

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I'm just getting home from spinning at a session here in Chicago...

Sometimes when I get home and unpack my things, I wonder whether it was worth it to gather up the energy and go out and play tunes for people. I enjoy conveying music to people, but I feel like people here in Chicago aren't very receptive to roots/foundation/revive- whatever you want to call it. I get so sick of ignorant MFs coming up to me critisizing me cuz I'm not playing Sean Paul, Sizzla or whoever else it is that they happen to know. Hip Hop is the ruling force around here and the Hip Hop of today's got a lot of people trying to act dumb deaf and blind. Time after time I've left a session with a bitter taste in my mouth, wondering why I bothered to leave the house. Not that all the feedback is negative, but I just feel like I'm speaking a foreign language.

I enjoy doing my radio show, primarily because I can try to put something together to the best of my ability and if others don't like it, they dont have to tune in and I don't have to hear about it. I can mix things the way I want, let the dub roll on a bit if I'm feeling it or not speak for 30 minutes at a time and just let the riddims run.

I don't really do what I do for other people's feedback, but when I put a lot of energy into things which I feel are fairly decent and all I hear is the echo of my own voice, it makes me wonder if I should find another outlet.

I don't know, just feeling a little burned out by it all, wondering how much I'd regret it if I wasn't doing my radio show, and if not, what other way is there to convey this music to other people?