I am in the process of reconstructing and expanding my catalogue of all my recordings, to go hand-in-hand with The Project. I expect it will take me until I am forty...
Obviously with tapes, and some older/obscurer CDs the only viable way is plain boring typing. But with some (most?) CDs all I have to do is load the CD into the PC, open WinAmp, access the CCDB, and copy and paste each track detail into Excel. The copy-and-paste is tedious, and I was wondering if there was a way that I could do it for the entire CD in one swoop, and then play about in Excel. I do not wish to pay any money for the privilege of this.
Secondly, I have been hanging onto the PC I replaced in 2002 mainly because it contains the 'old' database. I transferred it to this one, then this one had a fatal crash before I had done a back-up. The floppy containing the 'old' database was corrupted, and I kept meaning to get back to the old PC to transfer. Now I can't be arsed, so there's no point in keeping the old PC. I ususally put old electrical equipment on the street and someone takes it (it's known as Community Recycling). I don't want to do that with this one, and I don't want to just donate it to charity, because there is some personal stuff, some confidential stuff (old work and council casework)and some potentially embarrassing (downloaded and self-penned erotic - okay, porno - fiction). I guess the simple solution is to smash it with a hammer - whilst wearing goggles, of course. Anyone have any better solutions?
