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All you digital DJs:

What are all y'all using to catalog your digital tracks? iTunes is adequate, but I'd really like something more configurable--certainly would be nice to have database fields for bpm and key, at least.

Anyone out there using some super-nifty database that they'd like to tell the rest of us about?

If you're using a PC, foobar2000 has customizable fields that you can use to store any kind of data you want.

iTunes has BPM. It also has the Grouping field that can be used for anything you like.

k

but it doesn't support FLAC which means those of us who use that format as our default format can't use it to keep track.

That's unfortunate, because I would love to use iTunes for by DB uses.

rob.

Hands down, the absolute best music manager for large collections:

http://www.mediamonkey.com

I use iTunes as my DB, works fine for me. I like the new "Folders" for playlists, its great for global organizing your sets or grouping by genre.

x/grfld

you could use any data field for whatever you want, it doesn't care what you type in there.

iTunes is hugely powerful and configurable, especially when incorporating smart playlists. And it's free!

Might want to check out AudioFinder also.

dirtystudios wrote:Might want to check out AudioFinder also.

That looks incredible!

Thanks for that.

It IS incredible!

That's the best sample-trawling program I've seen.

As i looked for a "Sample" database, i stuggled over AudioFinder, too. Unfortunatly, it is for Mac only

This looks really great.

x/grfld

Last night I was catagorizing stuff in iTunes and noticed for the first time that they do have a BPM field. (This is before I read these repies.) I felt foolish to have not noticed previously.

Thanks for the replies, everyone. I'll check out the programs everyone suggested.

Kinda off topic, can I take a moment and gripe about how annoying it is that we're forced to deal with so many companies offering incomplete support for various competing file formats? Ableton supports mp3, ogg and FLAC but not AAC. iTunes supports AAC and mp3 but not ogg or FLAC. Etc.

(BTW Ableton, props to you for supporting FLAC and ogg. Add AAC so that I can direct all my bitching to Apple.)

Future Music (I think) has been giving away an application called LoopHorse, but it can't deal with 24 bit samples for some reason. Is there anything equivalent to AudioFinder for Windows 2K/XP?

mediamonkey does indeed look amazing. I have been using CATraxx for a few years and will probably stick with it. CATtraxx was oriented more towards physical items like LPs and CDs which were what I wanted to catalog. Also they had an excellent book cataloging program which I had been needing for years so I got them both from the same guy (http://www.fnprg.com)

Only to be shure: There's no app like AudioFinder for Windows?

x/grfld