Music Collector is the Music edition of the Collectorz.com series of collection managers. It organizes your CDs, LPs, MCs, MDs, etc... It is CDDB2 enabled, which means that you scan CDs in your CD-ROM drive and retrieve artist, title, year, label, genre, notes etc.. from CDDB servers on the internet. The Batch Scanning & Querying feature makes entering your CDs very quick and easy.

Its mains screen offers a flexible Explorer-like view on your collection, letting you group, sort and filter the data in every possible way. It has a very comprehensive set of fields for both albums and tracks, including user-definable fields, enabling you to catalogue all information you want.

Imports databases created with the other Collectorz.com program MP3 Collector, so that you can view all your music related data in one program.

Other features: user configurable reports, CDPLAYER.INI and CDValet support, export to ASCII and HTML tables, graphical statistics on your data, integrated CDDB² Music Browser etc...

The free Music Collector plugin for Quintessential Player (QCD3) allows QCD3 to read from and write to Music Collector databases directly, making MuC/QCD3 into the ultimate Music Cataloguing and Playing solution.

New in v3.0.1

• Database Changes:
  - Improved support for classical music:
  - New field: Subtitle
  - New field: Original Release Date
  - New field: Tags, for adding free-form key phrases to Albums
  - New In Collection Status value 'On Order'

• Main screen:
  - More polished and space efficient layout
  - Artists now appear in the order in which they are listed in the edit panels.
  - Title sorting takes numbers into account ('album 9' sorts ascending before before 'album 10').
  - Better key binding: Apple-F focusses the toolbar search field, if possible.

• Edit Screens:
  - Improved layout of all edit screens, for Albums, Discs, Headers, and Tracks.
  - Album screen: High quality artwork is now shown at its optimal size.
  - Album screen: Better scrolling in the tracks table.
  - Track Screen: Lookup items can now be edited directly.
  - More streamlined editing of Lookup items, especially for musicians.

• Add Albums Automatically:
  - Better results when searching on Amazon US, especially when using multiple keywords.
  - Improved default values for newly added items.

• Templates:
  - Improved listing of Musicians, Credits, and Details
  - Per disc track numbering

• Improved Barcode Scanner support:
  - Added support for the new Opticon OPN 2001 pocket barcode scanner.
  - Improved support for the CueCat scanner.

• Other changes:
  - Currency formatting now uses correct format (. or ,) for the local currency.
  - Automatic backup creation when upgrading the database to a new version.
  - Better support for case sensitive file systems. (HFS+ Case Sensitive).
  - Improved checks for submitting album information to Collectorz.com.