Geoff Mackenzie wrote:

Thanks for that! I was having problems responding to articles on the
NG - they (my replies, that is) appeared in my "sent" box but didn't
show on the NG itself. My tame computer expert came round to advise
- didn't understand a word he said, but seems like I can post now.

FWIW the reason I decided against a Brennan or any of the other
solutions is that they all require an encyclopaedic knowledge of your
collection, i.e. you have to know exactly what you are looking for. I have
a fairly modest collection of perhaps 200 LPs and the same
number of CDs, and part of the fun is lust looking through the covers
and thinking "I haven't heard that for a while" and remembering odd
tracks I haven't heard for donkeys years. I suppose my dream machine
would be a Brennan (or similar) which would have a camera attached so
that you could look at the artwork as part of the search procedure!


Geoff,

Agreed. Looking through album covers is something I miss with CDs and their
little fiddly cases with hinges that fall apart. But
Windows Media Player helps. Haven't tried with vinyl but for the majority of
ripped CDs it will (optionally) search a database and attach an image which
displays thumbnails of covers along with album titles/tracks/artists. I
don't know how it works but gets it right almost every time, even with
ancient/obscure albums.

Cheers,

TonyL