What You Said: How You Organize a Messy Music Collection. Earlier this week we asked you to share your tips, tricks, and tools, for managing a messy music collection. Now we’re back to share so great reader tips; read on to find ways to tame your mountain of music. Several readers were, despite having tried various techniques over the years, fans of doing things largely the manual way. Aurora900 explains: I spent a weekend sorting everything myself once. Bilbo Baggins would love to automate, but eclectic music tastes make it hard: I once spent days tagging each individual song with MP3tag so they all had the correct artist, album, album art work.
Lenny shares his manual sorting method: My system is to change the tags and filenames by hand, using online album track listings as a reference. Other readers sang praise for automation tools like Music Brainz Picard. MusicBrainz Picard. Another popular tool is Media Monkey; Wander writes: For more music cleaning tips and tricks, hit up the full comment thread here. Catalog Software. How to install a program on your thumb drive (reposting) « Tech – for Everyone.
As I am sure you have experienced a time or two yourselves, today is “one of those mornings” and I am impelled to quickly re-post a prior article. This article tells you how to get more use out of your thumb-drive by making it a ‘computer on a stick’. It appeared 12/12/07– Today I will answer a very good question submitted by a reader. Q: How do I install a program on my thumb-drive so I can run it from there? A: One of the handier uses for thumb-drives is to load them with programs and use them as sort of a ‘computer-on-a-stick’. As I mentioned in a prior article, I have a bootable thumb-drive loaded with troubleshooting programs which I use as a portable repair kit. But you don’t need to make a thumb-drive bootable to run programs from it. The most popular way to put programs on your thumb-drive is to either purchase a (pre-configured) U3 drive, or download and install the suite of portable programs called Portable Apps.
Click on the Browse button and then double-click on the D:\ drive. Kick Windows Installers to the Curb; Go Portable for a Considerably More Awesome Windows Experience. Shorten Long Cords, Store Cords Tangle-Free with This Dead-Simple Wrapping Technique. Griffith Manages Your Movie Collection. @bashobuddha: looks almost identical to Movie Collector from Collectorz. That's a good thing because movie collector is $30.00! I've been using Movie Collector for about 4 or 5 years now and I think its totally worth the (nominal) price. The barcode scanner support is top-notch, I can't imagine entering my 300+ titles into a database by hand.
(it even supports the $5 CueCat scanners for those on a budget) Plus, [Collectorz.com] also has their own DVD database which is much better integrated (and complete) than the "public" databases out there that can be searched. (Usually most software cull their info from a combo of IMDb, Amazon, DVDEmpire, etc.) For me, having a dedicated, commercial, and maintained database is one of the real advantages to MovieCollector. Also the XML report and display system is really nice, you can customize templates for the display window and for printing or export to HTML. @waffles: By the way, know anything good for CDs? Music, Video & Book Database Software.