Collectorz.com Music Collector Help Manual © 2008 Bitz & Pixelz BV 2 Collectorz.com Music Collector Help Manual Table of Contents Foreword 0 Part I Introduction 5 Part II Getting Started 6 Part III Getting Started - Quick guide 9 Part IV Getting Started - Useful and powerful tips 12 Part V Support 15 Part VI Buying Music Collector 15 Part VII Common Tasks 18 1 Adding Albums................................................................................................................................... Automatically - Wizard 18 2 Editing Albums................................................................................................................................... 21 3 Browsing................................................................................................................................... your database 24 4 Finding music................................................................................................................................... in your database 28 5 Printing ................................................................................................................................... 31 Part VIII Advanced Tasks 33 1 Adding Albums................................................................................................................................... Automatically - Advanced Mode 33 2 Add album................................................................................................................................... by CD scanning 36 3 Adding albums................................................................................................................................... using barcodes 39 4 Editing multiple................................................................................................................................... albums 40 5 Editing tracks................................................................................................................................... 42 6 Automatically................................................................................................................................... updating albums 44 7 Searching................................................................................................................................... with a filter 47 8 Managing................................................................................................................................... lookup lists 50 9 Finding a................................................................................................................................... cd by scanning 52 10 Adding images................................................................................................................................... manually 52 11 Updating................................................................................................................................... file links 55 12 Repairing................................................................................................................................... thumbnails 57 13 Loaning ...................................................................................................................................albums 58 14 Play audio................................................................................................................................... files using Music Collector 60 15 Customizing................................................................................................................................... the software 60 16 Importing................................................................................................................................... albums 64 17 Importing................................................................................................................................... an MP3 Collector database 66 © 2008 Bitz & Pixelz BV Contents 3 18 Exporting................................................................................................................................... to text format 66 19 Exporting................................................................................................................................... to HTML 68 20 Exporting................................................................................................................................... to iPod, PDA and XML 71 21 Viewing ...................................................................................................................................collection statistics 74 22 Changing................................................................................................................................... field names 75 23 Updating................................................................................................................................... the software 76 24 Transfering................................................................................................................................... data to a new computer 77 25 Transfering................................................................................................................................... data to a Mac 77 26 Making backups................................................................................................................................... of your data 78 Part IX Reference 81 1 Menus ................................................................................................................................... 81 File menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 81 Edit menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 83 Search menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 83 View menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 84 Loans menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 84 Tools menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 84 Buy menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 86 Help menu .......................................................................................................................................................... 86 2 Screens ................................................................................................................................... 86 Main screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 87 Add Albums Automatically.......................................................................................................................................................... Advanced screen 89 Edit Album screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 92 Edit Disc/Header/Track/Subtrack.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 95 Parse track info screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 97 Print screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 98 Filter screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 102 Column field selection.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 107 Sort field selection.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 109 Folder field selection.......................................................................................................................................................... screen 111 Manage Loans screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 113 Field Defaults screen.......................................................................................................................................................... 115 Statistics screen .......................................................................................................................................................... 116 Options screen .........................................................................................................................................................