It's no use saving files to CD if you can't remember where they are. With InsideCAT Lite Edition, you can catalog your CDs in a central database for easy browsing and searching. The program can index archives, too, and its powerful search tool works with tags in file formats such as PDF and MP3. We liked the idea behind the Collector tool, which lets you select files for a compilation. Compilations can be saved in one step, with InsideCAT prompting you to insert the right discs. However, we got endless error messages when working with this feature, and the dreadful interface makes even the features that work extremely difficult to use. Also, we missed a built-in viewer for documents and multimedia files. For straightforward cataloging and searching, InsideCAT Lite Edition is adequate, and if you don't need to catalog more than 100 discs, it's free. However, some may rather pay for a more stable, easy-to-use package.
What’s new in version 5.02
Version 5.02 main bug at Backup function fixed now works as expected and "Extract" and "BackUp" tabs relocated at new "Tools" tab.
Very user friendly. Will catalogues pretty much anything you want to list. Extremely fast to launch and navigate around. Automatic catalogue of CD's and DVD's. Excellent search capabilities. Almost immediate fix of any bugs.
Free.
Cons
Limited to 100 catalogues.
Summary
Is a perfect catalogue for new users and can be manipulated to cover many more than 100 cats by using different data files. However the Pro version being a very reasonable price you would probably only use the Lite as a check to see if it would suit your needs.
Fast and very searcheable disk cataloguer
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The best general-purpose disk cataloguer I have found. ALL compressed formats supportted. Very very fast. Lots of search functions. Not very pretty but... who cares?...