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superboyac:
Slowly and quietly, off of most people's radars, the top two programs for cataloging mp3 files are soon to disappear off the web completely.  I'm talking about MP3Rat (from Kaylon Technologies, makers of the fabulous PowerMarks; also dying and the best in it's class by far) and Mp3 Collector (Collectorz.com).  I've discussed both these programs at length in other threads here, but it's very sad to see these best in class (nobody comes close) programs about to die.  In the case of MP3Rat, it's already dead as it's sister program PowerMarks.  In MP3 Collector's case, it's still around, but hasn't really been updated in ages (besides very minor things) and, at least to me, it seems to be on its way out also.  As it stands, I think it is by far the least popular of the Collectorz.com suite anyway, which doesn't help motivate the authors to work on it vs their other programs.

Part of the problem, and these continue to be my nemesis, is the bundling of the cataloging features with the music players (jukeboxes).  Sure it's handy to have it all in one location, but the universal truth remains, "Jack of all trades, master of none."  None of these programs are quite as nice as MP3Rat or MP3 Collector.  It's just the fact that they are stand-alone, and the others are integrated in their favorite player.  But for us who are very picky about features, its a compromise we aren't willing to deal with.  That's why I have a separate music player, a separate encoding/decoding converter, a separate cataloger (two actually), and so forth.

It's very sad.  It reminds me of when KeyNote went down (is marek still around here?).  KeyNote was like a pioneer.

Target:
haven't seen this one listed anywhere else here, but a possible alternative is simon tellini's <a href="http://www.tellini.org/win/mp3cat/">MP3 Cat</a>

I tried a heap of these things several years ago and settled on this one (sadly it's no longer freeware)

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superboyac:
haven't seen this one listed anywhere else here, but a possible alternative is simon tellini's <a href="http://www.tellini.org/win/mp3cat/">MP3 Cat</a>

I tried a heap of these things several years ago and settled on this one (sadly it's no longer freeware)

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-Target (March 16, 2008, 09:18 PM)
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That's funny, MP3 Rat--> MP3 Cat.  I wonder if he's trying to one-up Kaylon.  From first glance, it's missing the greatest thing about MP3 Rat, and that's the lighting fast search box on top.  If the search isn't as good as MP3 Rat, then it's just another cataloger, and I'll have to try it out and see if it's even as good as MP3 Collector, which is the best.  Nice find!  I can't believe I never knew about it!

Target:
can't speak for the search functionality as I rarely use it - I don't tend to collect loose tracks (it's generally the whole album) and i don't catalogue my HDD, so this may or may not suit your req's

I liked it because it was the only one that I'd found that displayed the way i wanted - by artist.

it's small and it doesn't try to be a one stop shop, which suits me fine

also worth noting that it used to be freeware (1.28 was the last I think - current ver is 2.4) so you may be able to find a copy of the free version if you google

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J-Mac:
superboyac,

Having recently purchased both Movie Collector and Music Collector from Collectorz.com, I was looking hard at MP3 Collector.  As recently as a week ago I was browsing through its forum and became worried just as you apparently are here.  It has not been updated and requests about its future and the time table for an updated release have gone pretty much unanswered. The Collectorz mods there rarely reply to posts there, though they are very active on all other forums.  A post queried about the next update in December and the response was, "We will revisit MP3 Collector next year  :) "  Not very much of a commitment!  So I decided to hold off on any purchase, at least for now.  I am very much pleased with Movie and Music Collector presently; why take a chance of souring my opinion of the developer by spending top dollar on a product that seems to be on the way out?  Better to stay happy with what I have!!

Jim

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