Registered: Aug 2000
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Hey, I'd like to find a way to archive a list of all my cds and the songs therein (via CDDB, I guess) and then dump that data into my Visor. I'm bringing that up here, because I imagine many of you have already done this... a few searches yielded some results, but I'm curious as to what are the more popular options, etc. Can anyone provide details of what they use on their desktop and on the visor to accomplish this?

Thanks!

- Chris

Registered: Nov 1999
Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Interests: Women, Drums, Visors, Computers, Home Theater and any cool gadgets.
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I would suggest using Excel on your desktop to add all the CDs nice and neat into whatever format you want. Then sort it the way you want, by group etc.. Then simply export it as a .csv (comma delimited) file.

Then get a nice little database program like Jfile Pro (that I registered) or ThinkDB which is also supposed to be good. . These database program can usually read/convert (usually through its own conduit program) a .csv file and let you view/edit it etc.. on the PDA.

This should be the best option I would think. This will allow you to add them in Excel which is easy to use to set up columns for CD name, Artist, personal rating, time etc...Then just import!

I also like the idea that Excel is a standard. If you use some other proprietary database program, you have to use their software and may not be able to use the data in another app later on. I like the idea of being able to import it into other programs later on if I wanted to. I would not want to have to type the 375+ cd�s I own all over again


[Edited by Babylon5 on 09-01-2000 at 04:25 PM]

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Registered: Aug 2000
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Excel, but...

I have over 700 CDs now (thus, the desire to catalog them!) Is there a way to dump from CDDB info into Excel? There's WAY too much data to do by hand. I don't care how fast you can type.

- Chris

Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Georgia
Posts: 79

Hey guys just use "CD LIST" you will find it at Palmgear the cool thing is you just put your CD's in your drive and it reads them

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