I found a great free
software that is able to manage all of my media collections with ease. One of the greatest feature of Data Crow is that it is not only a software for managing
DVDs, CDs or books but provides a way to manage all of them. To be precise it is able to manage Software, Movies, Music Albums, Audio CD’s, Books and Images.
Data Crow was written in
Java which means that you need a
Java Runtime Environment installed on your computer to be able to install and run the software. When you have done that you can start adding your collection to the program by either adding items manually or importing items from online databases such as Amazon, Imdb, Freedb and Musicbrainz.
If the item is found covers, tracks, and other information are imported directly to the
database. One nice feature is that you can search for an artist for instance and import all of the
CDs found at once.
Data Crow has another feature that sticks out from other
media catalogers which is called Loan Administration. You can add contact information to Data Crow and lend those contacts items from your collection. Everything is registered in the Loan Administration which means that you can always look up if you lend the item to someone.
It is possible to
create pdf or html reports and export information to xml or csv files.