Delicious Library: Review No. 2
26 January 2006 09:36 AM | Apple
Earlier
I talked about
Delicious Library
which
is a software program for indexing your libraries
of Books, Movies, Music and Games. I thought I
would post an update now that I have indexed
everything.
First I bought the Bluetooth barcode reader from Delicious Library. It made indexing over 300 movies on both DVD and VHS very fast. In fact I was done in just a couple of hours! The music went slower - much slower - because most of my CD's have been bought through BMG Classical Music Club and do not have UPC bar codes on them. Compounding this: most of my classical CD's are from the early 1990's and are now out of print. So the bottom line was that I was going to have to do a lot of hand searching. Thank goodness I have broadband!
Through trial and error I found
the best way was to do a classical music search
right on the Amazon.com website. Usually I could
find the CD I owned that way. Then I would copy
the Amazon ASIN # into Delicious Library and
then use that to import the Amazon information
for that CD. Once I got the workflow down it
didn't take that long, but it was nowhere as
fast as scanning barcodes.
The rock and jazz CD's went faster. About 2/3rds of those had barcodes. And those that did not were easy to locate through the title search on Delicious Library.
I also like the ability to download an inventory to my iPod - it is an easy solution to making the Library portable so I can take it with me to the store.
I'm very impressed with the functionality and very visual presentation of Delicious Library. Considering that one program catalogs 4 different collections for a list price of $40 it is a bargain for Apple Mac users. And I finally feel I have a handle knowing what titles I own.
First I bought the Bluetooth barcode reader from Delicious Library. It made indexing over 300 movies on both DVD and VHS very fast. In fact I was done in just a couple of hours! The music went slower - much slower - because most of my CD's have been bought through BMG Classical Music Club and do not have UPC bar codes on them. Compounding this: most of my classical CD's are from the early 1990's and are now out of print. So the bottom line was that I was going to have to do a lot of hand searching. Thank goodness I have broadband!
Through trial and error I found
the best way was to do a classical music search
right on the Amazon.com website. Usually I could
find the CD I owned that way. Then I would copy
the Amazon ASIN # into Delicious Library and
then use that to import the Amazon information
for that CD. Once I got the workflow down it
didn't take that long, but it was nowhere as
fast as scanning barcodes.
The rock and jazz CD's went faster. About 2/3rds of those had barcodes. And those that did not were easy to locate through the title search on Delicious Library.
I also like the ability to download an inventory to my iPod - it is an easy solution to making the Library portable so I can take it with me to the store.
I'm very impressed with the functionality and very visual presentation of Delicious Library. Considering that one program catalogs 4 different collections for a list price of $40 it is a bargain for Apple Mac users. And I finally feel I have a handle knowing what titles I own.
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