Collectorz.com Customers
about Music Collector :

Brilliant!

"At this very moment i am building a catalogue of all Duran Duran releases from all over the word in Music Collector. I can easily indicate which ones i have in my collection and which are on my wishlist. I am near to 1,000 items already and only at 1/3 of their catalogue.
Love working on it and the results look brilliant!"

Just amazed

"I just wanted to write and say how pleased I am at having purchased the licence for the Music Collector Pro.
I don't usually get led into following up adverts on Facebook or any other site for that matter. I am just amazed at in just seconds after putting the CD into the computer how all the relevant information comes up.
I am hoping eventually to try more of your Collector Range. But t is going to take me a fair old time to catalogue all my music.

Thank You Alwin, Sytske & The team for your company."

Amazing!

"Entered my CD-collection and LP's, now halfway through my 7" vinyl collection (2,000+).
Music Collector is and remains amazing! Only once have I needed support and even that was great."

Superb product

"I am an ex CD-Trustee user and although I enjoyed using that product and its simplicity and simple unfailling lookup via CDDB I am now totally enamoured with the MusicCollector product.
It took a little while and some help from support to get the format as I wanted but now I allways say WOW when on searching I get what I want first time and in the format I want.
Well done and thanks to you all for your help and a superb product. "

It's Time to Say Thank You

"I bought Music Collector on 25th November 2003 (Customer No. 679) and feel that after having entered 2,703 CD's, that it is well past time to say thank you to Alwyn and all at Collectorz for their program (also Movie and Book) and for the enjoyment they have given me over the years.
Problems are sorted quickly and assistance is always forthcoming from other users through the forum. It is good to see that users who bought at around the same time as me (Old Geek, Geoff, Xenorose, etc) are still active and willing to help.
May you prosper for many more years to come and hopefully I will continue the journey with you."

Does everything I need and then some

"I just bought this program a couple of days ago and started using it officially last night. I've already discovered a way to make entering records with no barcode a little easier. Instead of using the manual enter function, use the automatic enter function and put in the title and artist then hit search. You still need to go in and change some fields like "format" and enter the personal data manually, but the rest is done for you provided it is found.

This program is fabulous!!!! It does everything I need and then some! I have not purchased a peice of software this good in years! I loaded it in Windows 7 and XP and it loaded and runs flawlessly. It's real easy to use as well, its mostly quite intutitive really. Just an occasional referal to the manual if your trying to do something a bit weird or what have you is all that's required. Again, fabulous program!! "

Easy to use

"I just wanted to say that I bought the Music and Movie versions of your software. I'm finding them so easy to use that I'm thinking of purchasing the Book Collector version.
Any CD on your database that doesn't have the cover artwork I'm able to get a copy from Google images 99% of the time.
Thanks again for such easy to use and affordable software."

My LP/CD collection

"Well, it took me three and a half years (I had a baby in between ;-)) But I did get my LP/CD collection catalogued. Fewer than I thought I had at just short of 2,500 and still a coupe, of 7" missing, but Im done. First pass.
Now to check some prices and get worried my insurance isnt enough....
As I took so long, I have had a good view over the development of music collector and I must say, over time the software has got easier to use. I have never regretted purchasing the pro version."

What a time saver

"Lovin the music collector!
Being a husband of a professional musician we are always looking that certain piece. So I have cataloged all our cds, records,tapes and all digital audio all I one package.
What a time saver! Thanks!"

Nothing comes close to it

"I'm a long time loyal user and tremendously enjoy using this program. Nothing comes close to it.
The motto for Keep It Compact (former name of Music Collector) was simplicity but I think that dedicated collectors as myself and the excellent development team have contributed to make it the high quality program that it is today.
Not too many software companies can claim to have the kind of close ties with its users that Collectorz.com has. It would be interesting to compare the feature list of the original Keep It Compact with the current incarnation of Music Collector.
What a ride for Alwin and company.

That's it for now and I'm looking forward to next update."

The Best Program

"Im a HUGE fan of Music Collector, and have catagorized over 200 of my cd:s (but have over 600 left to catagorize).
This is the best program I have find and worked with. I search for a long time before I found this. I wanted a good one of course, and found it!!"

A Pleasure To Use

" I have been using Music Collector since 2001 for my CD collection.
The program has had excellent improvements since then and it's a pleasure to use. I also use the Music Collector app on my iTouch so I can carry my collection with me.
My collection has now grown to over 7,000."

DYNAMITE!!

"The new album cover search feature is DYNAMITE!!
Thanks."

Quick and easy to use

"Just a quick "hello", and THANK YOU for what looks to be a WONDERFUL product!
I've wanted to organize my collection of Early Music for some time and didn't know to turn. And with nearly 2,000 CDs, I was losing track of what I have, and where I have it!
I've started entering my CDs into the database and find it's very quick and easy to use!
I'm really enjoying myself, too!
Thanks again, and it's nice to know there are so many "helping hands" available if I need assistance. "

The Software To Buy

"If you seriously collect anything, Collectorz is the software to buy. I use Music Collector and it's wonderful.
Thank you for writing software that doesn't make me want to pull my hair out!"

The Most Useful Software

"With over 2,000 CDs and LPs catalogued, I now have to concentrate on a similar number of 12" & 7" singles - defnitely the most useful software I have."

Lost Without It

"Great application. I definitely recommend it for anyone who has more than a few CDs or DVDs.
With over 1,400 CDs and 1,000 DVDs, I would be absolutely lost without it."

How Did I Ever Manage?

"I've been using Music Collector for a short while and I agree with the statement "How did I ever manage without it?".
I guess that now I'm done with buying duplicate CDs... :)"

Best Of It's Kind!

"LOVE Music Collector...The new update is FANTASTIC...
Also, I am glad to hear about Music Collector Connect coming later this year...Sooner than later would be awesome!
Again, keep up the good work, guys.... Your programs are amazing... Best of it's kind!"

93,152:15 Minutes of Music

"Hooray! Finally finished 1,591 abums, with 1,799 disks, 21,005 tracks and 93,152:15 minutes of music.
What next . . . . movies because that would be the quickest to finish, books because there's so many of them, or photos so I can learn to use the software.
Might just have a drink . . ."

Love It

"I've been using Music Collector for over a year and love it.
I have 9,813 CDs catalog'd to date. I started using Movie Collector a few months ago and have about 1,100 input thus far.
Great programs."

Easy And Fast

"Love the Music Collector program. Wonderful, easy and fast.
Thank You.. Thank You."

WOW

"I remember trying to find software to catalog my movies and cd's..
WOW...this is fantastic..
If you don't have it.. What are you waiting for .. Definitely the best...."

Indispensable

"I've been using Music Collector for a number of years now...it is indispensable.
I also began using Book Collector a few months ago...still loading collection. Both are great products."

So Much Fun

"I've been using Collectorz for several years now.
I have close to 2,500 CD's logged in and counting. I also have book Collectorz and movie Collectorz.
This is by far the absolute best cataloging software, and the people at Collectorz are wonderful! Thanks Collectorz, for being so much fun!!"

Order in my disorder

"I HAD to say to Collectorz Team that I've just upgraded Music Collector to version 9.0 Pro and it's fantastic.
I've been using Music and Book Collector for many years now and every new version is a surprise and always beyond expectations. This new version that can link the database to my music files is what I needed. Absolutely GREAT.

Thank you so much for putting order in my disorder ;-) "

Thanks for 2 great products

"I just wanted to let you know I have been a user of Music collector and Movie collector for several years. I have 2 large collections and am very pleased with your products.

Music collector has 1,234 CDs (counting box sets as a single CD) and Movie Collector has 1,538 titles (counting box sets there is 2,230 DVD's in my collection).
Both Collectorz run fine with that many entries."

Sheer professionalism

"I am yet another of your many very satisfied customers. I use Music, MP3, and Book Collector -- but Music Collector is the one I use daily.

Apart from the sheer professionalism of the program's design, I find the User Defined fields really useful. I have nearly 700 CDs, and I like to listen to each of them within a reasonable period.
(Otherwise, why keep them?)

To help me with this, I have renamed Album Text1 to "Last played", and Album Text2 to "Times played". Each time I play an album I record the date (e.g. 20090806) and increase "Times played" by one. That way, I can tell which CDs haven't been listened to for a long time by sorting them on the "Last played" column in Album View, and I can tell which ones I have played only once or twice since getting them with the filter "Times Played less than 3".

My family think I'm obsessive. Maybe I am. But it helps me to enjoy my collection! "

A Collectorz fan for life

"WOW!! This was among the BEST customer service I have ever gotten!
I wrote and asked two specific questions, and you sent me a response the next morning with exactly the information I needed, neatly organized, and clearly presented. I had no problems at all backing up my stuff, and restoring everything.
You have a Collectorz fan for life! Thanks a million. (And please, I beg you... Teach Microsoft what customer service is supposed to do!)
Again, thanks for your wonderful products, and for your amazing customer service."

Impressive piece of work

"I am not after support - I wanted to thank and congratulate you for the Music Collector software.
So easy to work with and so practical.

What an impressive piece of work! "

Does everything I need & more

"I can't tell you how much I love this software. It does everything I need and much more.

I've always wanted to catalog all my CD's and tried to create my own database. However, I kept having to add fields and go back to edit every single CD. About 2 years ago, I gave up.

I've only cataloged about 150 in Music Collector, but, it's been a breeze. I know I've yet to discover all the ways it can manipulate the data, but, I'll get there.

I really like that it doesn't eat gobs of memory and there's no 'terminate-stay-ready' embedded in the software and sitting in my systray. (I hate those things.) Simple to use straight-forward software. I'm in heaven.

I believe this is going to save me a great deal of money, as I have a tendency to purchase duplicate CD's because I can't remember if I already own it. The online music retailers are going to be very unhappy and so will my friends, to whom I give all my duplicates.

Now, I can see the light at the end of the CD cataloging tunnel and it's not an oncoming train. I hope you get rich off of this; you deserve it for saving my CD collecting butt!

Thank you !"

I am impressed

"I just spent some time scanning in about 150 of my 700 CDs.
Your software is amazing.

I have just started exploring it and already I am impressed. As an engineer and programmer, I understand the complexity of good database and user interface design.
WELL DONE !!!
I am looking forward to finding new features as I go further.
Keep up the good work. "

Your product is a godsend

"I'm just now getting to read your recent e-mail and am appalled at the messages sent to you by customers who, in coming upon a problem with one of your outstanding products, failed to address you with a more conciliatory question such as: "Can you suggest a probable cause as to why my copy, downloaded from your site, does not seem to work on my computer?"

Your response to each of them was quite diplomatic and I applaud you for being levelheaded in solving their problems. It never seems to amaze me that most people demand respect, but are short on being respectful.

However, if it will raise your morale and the morale of your colleagues a little more with regards to your products and services, I, as a satisfied customer, have not had any problem with the downloading of my "trial edition" of the Music Collector Software.

I have been working with the instructions given on how to get started and I am ecstatic over the results thus far. Moreover, I am anxiously awaiting now for the arrival of my scanner to begin cataloging my collection, which has been on my shelves and in boxes for years with no order.

Your product is a godsend and should be a must for all record and cd collectors, no exception. Finally, to quote a well-known phrase: "Build a better mouse trap, and the world will beat a path to your door."

The overwhelming response to your product (s) proves the validity of the above phrase. Keep up the great work. "

I had to write to say Bravo!

"I recently purchased your Music Collector Pro software and after entering about 250 CDs (a fraction of my collection) I had to write to tell you how pleased I am with the database.

So far, there's not a single thing that I haven't been able to achieve.
Too often people take good products for granted so I had to write to say Bravo!"

What a wonderful program

"I have to tell you what I think about Music Collector.

I looked for a program that I could understand and would not be time consuming to keep track of my hundreds of CDs. I looked at several and when I found yours had a free trial, I thought that is wonderful I could try it before buying it.

I was very pleased but I thought one thing would make it ideal,the ability to use my Cuecat scanner I got from RadioShack and had no use for until now. I checked the latest on your website and found to my delight it might be possible to use the Cuecat (it is the old type without a USB connection,it splices into the keyboard connection) so I plugged it in and tried it, The first try didn't work but the next one did-WOW!

I knew I had to pay for the license key to get unlimited use as I used up the free trial very soon!

I cannot thank you enough but I will tell my friends what a wonderful program you created and urge them to try it then buy it."

3,000 movies and 3,000 albums

"I have both Music Collector and Movie Collector, and what marvelous programs they are for collectors like me. I now have about 3,000 movies and 3,000 albums in my collections."

Love the Music Collector

"I just wanted to let you know, that I absolutely love the Music Collector. I need to check out the video collector also. I have over 1000 CDs to catalog first. Thanks for you fine work!!!

I really don't know exactly what I have and what I need. Your collection will help me clear that up. It's terrible getting over 60 and losing your long & short term memory. "

Just fantastic

"In June I purchased your Music Collector Pro program which I think is just fantastic. I use it to catalog our ever growing CD collection of now some 4,000 recordings.
This is for the CD library of the New Orleans Musica da Camera, a non-profit performing ensemble of early music which I founded & co-direct. We are now in our 43rd year."

The right cataloging system

"Thank you for a brilliant product!

I had been searching ages for the right cataloging system as I had 4,000 albums vinyl, over 3,000 7"singles, 2,000 12"singles and about 2,000 CDs to input and of course all the vinyl has to be manually input (I cheat by treating it as a CD then changing tracks etc.)"

Duplicate CDs

"The one thing I think is great, is that since purchasing music collector I haven't purchased duplicate CDs, a thing that I use to do quite often.
Many thanks for your product. It is great! "

"My name is James C. Gebbia I live in the desert southwest in the wonderful state of Arizona in the great country of the United States. I first want to say your database for collectors (mainly CDs) is great! I have at the time of writing this 11,021 silver pressed factory CDs not including 99 cdrs of various colors that are band and/or band authorized issued. I add about 25-50 CDs monthly to my collection.

I have been using Music Collector to manage my cd collection now for about 3 years. I mainly listen to all genres of rock music from 1964 to present. I really enjoy Music Collector, it keeps my collection very well organized alphabetically by band name, title of cd, year released, label and number of tracks.

Without Music Collector I wouldn't know what to do with my collection. I love to add to the database when I find that rare CD that's not in the database, but thats pretty uncommon."

"Might I tell you that I have been collecting music for 35 years, and with more than 8200 albums, your software is the very best available anywhere. I have tried other databases, but for ease of use, screen layout, report printing, and reliability, nothing compares to Collectorz, especially since you've improved the software so much compared to seven or eight years ago. Simply amazing."

"I am a SQL programmer by profession but a blues music collector by passion. I had been playing around writing my own program for my collection (about 4000 cd's). I did the 30 day trial of your program mostly to get ideas - your program was so good I quit building my own.

I buy sell trade borrow Blues CD's in a large local blues society and your program makes managing my collection very easy. Thank you for this fine product - I have recommended it to all I come across. I even recommended it to a movie (shudder :)) collector the other day. Nice work."

"Your software has been a breathe of fresh air for me. I was an advocate user of Microsoft Access and Excel to manage my collection. A friend of mine turned me on to your site. One day (about a year ago) I finally downloaded a trial version and liked what I saw.

It took me about 32 hours to input all my CDs which was about 1900 at the time. Since then my collection has grown to just under 3750. Using a handheld scanner is a great way to input the information. What I really like is I can search for a particular song or Artist. It takes a little time to return the results but I know it's because of the size of my collection.

I will probably change my DVD collection over to use your software as well. I have about 1200 DVD movies."

"I love the software. I decided to check out the music software and just purchased that from your site a couple of days ago. I haven't had a chance to start organizing our music collection but will as soon as I can wade through all our movies. If it works as well as the movie software... I shall be very pleased.

We purchase quite a few foreign disks of both movies and music so it is very, very nice that we can search foreign databases for the information on this portion of our collections. I only ran into about a dozen movies that were not listed anywhere on any of the databases. The ability to scan and add the covers is priceless."

"I have completed cataloging my CD collection in record time, thanks to the thoughtful way your program works, and its amazingly easy-to-use features. Your customer service is A1 too!! "

"Have just downloaded my own version via the web of the Music Collectors program. Have been trying for YEARS to get my husband to catalogue his music collection. Thank you so much for making it such an easy process, have put in about 120 already and still have more to add. Thanks again. "

"I have an ever-growing admiration for Music Collector and the many nice features in it. I've been going through my Artists List, changing names to the style of "last name, first name". After many manual reformattings of the Sort Name for entries in the AL, I just now discovered what you've provided in the "down arrow Generate" button. What a nice feature! And it's not the first time I've said that to myself as I've continued to process our music collection into Music Collector!

You have really developed a sophisticated program! And being a retired teacher of, among things, relational database theory, I have some idea of how much work must have gone into making Music Collector as good as it is."

"After I had already purchased my 8th duplicate CD, I decided it was high time to inventory my collection to prevent it from happening again.

I downloaded 5 or 6 other comparable software pieces, which were designed to do what your music collector does. Believe me, the competition's programs are junk in comparison to yours. I didn't have to load but two or three CDs into the other's demo programs to realize that I didn't need the frustration I was already experiencing at least another 800 times.

I loved your program from the beginning and I still do. It is designed well, and is very user friendly. I would recommend this program to anyone who needs to keep an accounting of their collection, for whatever reason."

"I just recently ordered 3 collectors plus the bar scanner about a month ago. I tested the music collector out with a few CDs and it works great.
Love it! "

"Please, allow me to first thank you for your wonderful products. I've been using Music Collector since it was Keep It Compact 1 and as I've added more things to my life, I've added more Collectorz products and I should buy the scanner one of these days."

"I downloaded the trial and it really is the best program that I had used and had seen and I have used about 12 different programs! Congratulations! Tomorrow morning I will do the order for the pro version. "

"I own 5000 cds and your Music Collector is a wonderful software, really useful and easy.. Thanks a lot for this and thanks for your support: I had some help needs in the past and the help came always very quickly, precise and kind!! I recommended your products to many friends."

"Firstly, thank you for an excellent program which I've just purchased having used the trial edition. The software has answered all my needs. Not only do I love music, but have enjoyed keeping records of different things since I was young, so this software is perfect. In fact it exceeds my needs!!"

"I am very happy with your product, and with your terrific (not in the terror inducing connotation of that word) support service."

"I just completed adding all my CD albums to my CD Library. I am very pleased with your software. In fact, the more I use the software the better I like the wide scope of possibilities that is available. "

"Music Collector is a fantastic Program for Music Fans and Collectors who want to have the data of their Record-Collection with all details in one database. I tried different programs before. None was better than this! You buy it once for a very low price and you get a very good support plus regular updates.

You guys are doing a great Job and you know exactly what we collectors need. Go on like this! Thanks a lot for your great work! The program is absolutely fantastic."

"Your product is excellent and the more I use it the more impressed I become. Keep up the good work."

"I love the software---I have over 1000 books in my home library and would never keep them straight without Book Collector---high recommend it! Now I can enjoy the Music Collector and will put it to good use as my CD collection is also growing and getting more difficult to organize.

Thanks again for your prompt attention and for the software! "

"Just wanted to thank you once again for a superior product. I'm a 70 year old rank amateur, but am constantly in awe of your software and its user friendliness... rare these days.

My 60 year old jazz collection is almost done thanks to your program and the scanner. BRAVO ZULU!!!! "

"Music Collector is an absolutely wonderful product, as a DJ I would recommend it to anyone. I have my entire collection stored on my laptop, so I can take it to my gigs with me.

It saves me so much time and stress because I can easily look up track listings in a matter of seconds. With several hundred CD's, it's impossible to memorize whats on all of them.

I also use music collector to allow patrons to view my collection on my computer, so no one has to touch my CDs."

"I have been a registered MuC user from before it was even called Music Collector (it was called KIC Music at the time) and have had only pleasant surprises since then.

All of the questions and suggestions I have given in the past 6 years were used one way or the other to improve and enhance MuC. But more important most of the functionality I needed was added long before I even realized I needed it (most recent example: export to iPod).

What I find most surprising is that I am still using the lifetime license I bought in the KIC Music time (and when Muc became Muc standard and Muc Pro, this license was changed to Pro automatically).

I don't normally write messages like this but I just thought I had to let you know.

Keep up the good work!"

"Your program is marvelous. BRAVO ZULU!!! (US Navy term for WELL DONE)."

"Just to say how pleased I am with these two programs, I have been looking at (and trying) many but these have just the right combination of great layout and features plus ease of use-highly recommended!"

"Thank you gentlemen. I appreciate the quick response to my email and I just want to say that I use your product daily and it had NEVER failed me.

Always leave it to the Dutch to put out a superior product."

"I should say how impressed I am with the program and, after a few more days evaluation, I'm sure I'll buy it. I'm also impressed by your help and support to me and, as I can see on the support forum, how you support users in general.

Regards and many thanks."

"I am a software engineer by profession and developed my own CD programs in Access and other tools in the past.

Your product is a gem by any standard - completion of the solution (Palm support), performance, functionality, usability and value for Money (the integration with the Flic scanner I got today is marvelous)."

"I would like to say how pleased I am with the Music Collector software that I have been using for over a year now. It is excellent value for money, particularly when you consider that lifetime support is included in the original purchase price, as well as being functionally rich and stable."

"I've had your Music Collector software since May 2002. The addition of the Flic Scanner is tremendous! I ordered one as soon as I saw it, and it is just amazing.

You just can't get any simpler for categorizing your CD's. Bravo!!"

"I just wanted to say thanks for this wonderful catalogue software. I recently discovered you can drag and drop CDs to areas you want them placed this is making it 1000 times faster to catalogue them. This particular helps when you have box sets or twin CDs Like I do.

Anyway this software rocks and I have recommended it to friends who also have large CD-collections"

"Thank you very much for your prompt response.
Your s/w and support always make me feel that I've gotten an unbelievable deal from Music Collectorz..."

"This is wonderful. I have tried for YEARS to get my CDs on my computer so that I would know just exactly what I have and where in my collection to find a particular CD. I'm still have 500 or so to put in, but this sure beats typing everything and trying to make a sort program work. THANK YOU!

VERY, VERY, VERY PLEASED PURCHASER"

"I want to let you know how much I like the Music Collector that I recently bought. I have been working on my CD collection for a week or so and this program is exactly what I had been looking for. In fact, it is so much more than I expected. Thanks."

"Thanks, you run a great operation, and I, and friends I have introduced it to, think the program is marvelous."

"I JUST DECIDED TO GIVE YOU FOLKS EVEN MORE PRAISE.
Your tech support is great. You answered me in less than 24 hours. Your answers were pertinent and complete, and even volunteered a suggestion or two of where I might go wrong (Edit Lists). And you were friendly!
Music Coll's ability to maintain authority control lists is very impressive."

"Music Collector rocks! And the new features in version 6.6 are great :)
Keep up the good work."

"I love the program, it has done in a week what I couldn't do in a year with a spreadsheet."

"I would just like to say "FAB". I've been trying for ages to sort out my collection of over 10'000 records, i started typing manually last year, then i stopped, then started again & stopped. But then, by chance, i came upon you website saw this item for managing record collections and thought i'd give it a go. I've been using it for a week now and it's BRILL.
Many thanks
P.S. Like the new thumbnail feature, it's GREAT"

"I am really happy to have found your software. For years I wanted to organize my CDs in a database but backed off because of the tremendous amount of time it would have cost me (and that would have meant just the title and maybe the songtitles). With the additional data your program collects including the cover photo (where it is available) it is a luxurious solution indeed!"

Peter Rozsenich

"Your software is outstanding. I've used your "music collector" for over a year now and have been very impressed. I'm considering trying out your "movie collector" tool as well."

Mark Bendiksen

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