MyMusic Personal Librarian 3.1 review

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MyMusic is a powerful database program designed to help you maintain an inventory of your music collection.

License: Demo
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 0K
Developer: Computer Dynamics, Inc.
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Price: $49.00
Updated: 06 Aug 2005
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MyMusic is a powerful database program designed to help you maintain an inventory of your music collection. Insert a CD into your CD-ROM drive, and CDDB will return information to assist you in automatically cataloging your collection.

Complete album details including Title, Artist, Genre, Year, Label, Tracks, Credits, Cover Art, Lyrics, and Album Notes can be cataloged with just a few mouse clicks. Additional information can be stored, including Changes, Beats Per Minute, and Tablature files.

MyMusic also makes it easy to cross-reference your music collection and is well suited for the avid collector, the professional disc jockey, the radio host, dance and music instructors, schools of music, students of music, and more.

NEW! MyMusic has many new features including the new List View, enhanced cataloging with automatic cover art downloads from Amazon.com, enhanced report sorting capabilities, filtering, enhanced sorting options, and the new Amazon Search and Wish List window that allows you to purchase music directly from Amazon.com.

Here are some key features of "MyMusic Personal Librarian":
Catalogue CD's and MP3's without typing
MyMusic is ready to go to work for you immediately. No extensive setup. Simply enter your locations and put a CD in your CD drive Save time and countless hours of data entry with CDDB2. Automatically download Cover Art and additional information from Amazon.com.
Catalogue music media or create your own media types
Can't find your media type? Create your own custom media type. (i.e.. sheet music, etc.)
Custom Genres
Can't find a genre that suits your music? Create your own custom genres.
Catalogue and Submit in Batch Mode
Why enter your media one at a time? MyMusic will allow you to catalogue and submit in batch mode.
Quick Navigation
Very fast access with easy to use buttons and menus.
Complete inventory including cover art, credits, track information and more
MyMusic enables you to store an image of the album cover, attach additional information to each track such as chord changes, key and credits, as well as add your own personal comments for albums and tracks
Now MyMusic can automatically download cover art and additional information from Amazon.com.
Import your Audiofile Data
MyMusic will import your Audiofile data saving you lots of time in converting from Audiofile.
Manage Loans
Flag which Music has been loaned out and to whom as well as when.
Amazon Search and Wish List
Keep track of your Wish lists within MyMusic. Enter a release date. MyMusic will remind you on the date that you have wish list items due. Once you have the disc move it to your inventory and retrieve the track information via CDDB. Search for music and purchase directly from Amazon.com.
Create Playlists for iTunes and other popular players.
MyMusic will launch your player automatically. MyMusic make it easy to create a play list to your favorite MP3 ripper player. Also play CD's. The database will pull up the correct record for the current playing disk
Cross Reference your music
Easy to use database features such as "Find by Song", "Find by Artist", "Find by Location", or "Find by Title".
Advanced Search Capabilities
Run sophisticated searches such as: find album songs where 'Afflicted Willmost' is playing bass and of that result find all albums recorded prior to 1971. Advanced Search by Producer, Engineer, Guitarist, release date or any other field.
Store Key and Chart information by song.
Print out easy to read consistent charts for songs that you are interested in. Pass them out to band members, etc.
Track label, year released, who played on each track, what key the song is in and on and on.
Designed for the Audiophile but simple to use for the novice. MyMusic will keep track of all your data while not burdening down the user who simply wants to know where something is.
Configurable and Sortable Lists
You have the ability within MyMusic to choose which columns are displayed in a list , and sort the list by clicking on a specific column.
Print any report in a variety of formats such as PDF, print, html or to a file.
Integrate MyMusic into your Web Site or other applications.. All reports can be printed in HTML or PDF formats as well as hard copy and to a specific file.
Enhanced Sorting options are available for printing reports. Print your results as you see them, or select a subset of your collection and print a report on just the items you select.
Design and Create your own custom reports
Need Custom Reports? You can design and create your own within MyMusic.
Cross Platform
Run MyMusic on your choice of platforms: Mac OS 9,  Mac OS X,  Windows 95, 98, NT, 2, XP or ME. Linux support coming soon.
OS X Ready   Run under Apples newest Operating System Mac OS X
Top Level Customer Support   Our Customer Support Staff is here to help you every step of the way!
Highest Data Integrity  
MyMusic can grow as large as necessary. Operations are optimized to run large databases easily and quickly. This is not written in FileMaker. Very Stable and high integrity back end. Future releases will integrate into full SQL backends and allow palm synchronization of your data. Be very confident in your data integrity now and into the future.

Limitations:
15 days trial.

What's New:
Changes
Added field dc_condition to disc records.
Added Preference area for creating and maintaining Media Conditions.
Added new item to File menu, Catalog Lookup.
Changed tree list to not grey items to avoid long processing times involved.
Added dc_condition to Album All Data and Intermediate reports.
Moved fields Favorite, On Loan and Value to bottom of main window.
Added Recorded Date and Condition fields to main window.

All Platforms
Corrected cataloging from AMG to get correct number of tracks.
Corrected Exception window to properly handle keyboard commands for OK and Cancel.
Corrected Credit Block entry processing so that Credits are modifiable after entry.

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