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Have you looked at Tellico http://periapsis.org/tellico/ ? It is a database for managing collections of things, with various default types (Books, Music, Wine, Stamps, Coins etc) built in. The music template seems to be for non-classical (as it has a field for Artist but not Composer), but there is an option to create custom databases. I am guessing it is flat file (XML?) rather than relational DB. I've not used it myself. As a LaTeX user I prefer to use BibTeX / JabRef for cataloguing books and scientific papers etc, but it look like it might be the thing? Tellico is currently at 1.3.5 for KDE3 (>= 3.3.1), and is GPL2. It is in the repos for Ubuntu 9.04, and I assume other distros too although I haven't investigated. Phil Whateley On Sun, 2009-05-10 at 14:55 +0100, Neil Winchurst wrote: > Simon Waters wrote: > > Neil Winchurst wrote: > >> Well, thanks for the info. It seems that I will have to write my own > >> database for the job. Now I must decide which program to use. > > > > What precisely do you want to keep track of about the CDs? > > > Perhaps I should have mentioned that I am talking about classical music > CD's. In effect I am looking to set up a database of all the relevant > details from each CD. Here is an example - > > DISCID=69103107 > DTITLE=Sir Malcolm Arnold / Complete Symphonies - Disc 2 - Nos 3 and 4 > DYEAR=2001 > DGENRE=Symphony > TTITLE0=Symphony No 3 Op 63 - I Allegro - vivace > TTITLE1=Symphony No 3 Op 63 - II Lento > TTITLE2=Symphony No 3 Op 63 - III Allegro con brio - Presto > TTITLE3=Symphony No 4 Op 71 - I Allegro - poco piu mosso - Tempo I > TTITLE4=Symphony No 4 Op 71 - II Vivace ma non troppo > TTITLE5=Symphony No 4 Op 71 - III Andantino > TTITLE6=Symphony No 4 Op 71 - IV Con fuoco - alla marcia - Maestoso > -Allegro molto > > So, one table to hold the first four items and a linked table to hold > the title details for each CD. > > I could have a go at setting up one for myself, but I wondered if one > was already available. (See next para.) > > In my Windows days I would have used Borland Paradox and had the > database set up and in use in half a day, easily. Unfortunately there is > no equivalent program yet in Linux. That, IMHO, is the big, big hole in > what Linux can offer. For just about everything else there is now a > program available in Linux to do the job, but a database equivalent to > Paradox or even Windows Access? No way. > > Neil > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html