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Key Details of JB Music Catalogue

  • Catalog your music collection, add as little or as much detail as desired, and produce reports.
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  • There have been 5 updates
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JB Music Catalogue 0/7

Editors’ Review

Download.com staff

JB Music Catalog is a personal database for music lovers and collectors. It catalogs your CDs, LPs, tapes, MP3s, and more with a level of detail few other databases can match at any price, yet it's also freeware. It's highly customizable in its look, layout, and properties. It incorporates a music player and can generate detailed reports and discographies, too.

To open JB Music Catalog, you must first create a new catalog or open an existing catalog. We created a new catalog, which involves either changing or accepting the default name and directory in Explorer. The program opened normally after checking for updates. The default interface can be customized; we found that the left-hand navigation panel's expandable alphabetical listing let us quickly access entries by name (once we'd created some entries, of course). We started by clicking the Add Artist icon, which brought up the compact Add Artist Type wizard. Here we could specify an Artist Type (like Jazz, Rock, etc.) as well as configure the title format ("Beatles, The" or "The Beatles," for example) and even set our choices as defaults. We clicked Save, and the Add Artist tool appeared. This dialog let us add and sort the name, add countries to a drop-down list for selecting, link Web sites, and add photos and notes. Next, we entered our tunes in the Add Media wizard: name, media type, artist, and other data, and clicked Save. That called up a page with the most extensive and detailed data fields we've ever seen in a music database. Not just a drop-down list for Release Year; we're talking about a second list for Re-Release Year. Check boxes let us select Live, Mono, Remastered, Bootleg, and other useful categories. A 76-page PDF-based Help file answers most questions, and more help is available.

Of course, all that data isn't going to enter itself; that's the "B side" of such archives, since it can be daunting just to get started. We recommend starting with a stack of CDs from the same artist and entering your collection in stages. Once you're done, your catalog can be updated, saved, and exported to PDF, Excel, and Word. That's true of many database tools; what isn't true is that most tools offer music collectors the same level of sophistication and detail that JB offers. They don't.

What’s new in version 2.1

Various bug fixes and performance improvements.


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Full Specifications

GENERAL
Release
Latest update
Version
2.1
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Platform
Windows
Operating System
  • Windows 10
  • Windows Vista
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7
  • Windows XP
Additional Requirements
None
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Total Downloads
11,646
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Developer’s Description

Catalog your music collection, add as little or as much detail as desired, and produce reports.
JB Music Catalogue is a program that allows you to easily catalog you music collection. Features: Any music formats can be cataloged, and new formats can be added. Link albums that have the same song on them. Catalog your iTunes Music Library. Catalog your MP3 / WMA files. Produce customizable reports of your music collection. Export your reports to pdf, word, excel. Play your music. Import lyrics for your songs. Import album art from a folder. Add multiple pictures for each album and artist. View all pictures full size. Create a discography for each artist. Create a wishlist. Import and export albums between catalogs. Many different ways to view your music. Filter for specific media types. Change the appearance of the program. Download latest updates from the internet.

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