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S C I E N C E T I M E S Tuesday, September 18, 1990
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The New York Times
PERIPHERALS
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By L.R. Shannon
Audiophiles, like other collectors, are always going to get
organized. Tomorrow. Meanwhile the records, disks and tapes
pile up. Album Trax can turn an accumulation into a collection.
Album Trax is a database written specifically for music
collections. It presents you with a form on the in screen which
you type the title of the album, the artist, the category (rock,
classical, jazz or whatever), year, label and format. Then you
enter the individual songs and their playing times, up to 48
songs per record. There's also room for comments.
Once you've typed in the collection, or a part of it, you can
search and sort it by any of the categories -- everything by
Frank Sinatra, for example, or all the versions of Aïda.
If you want a printed copy of your collection, you can print it
out on either 8.5-by-11-inch sheets or for 2-by-4-inch Rolodex
cards. With the full-size print out, the program automatically
totals the playing times.
All this is accomplished with the help of menus, windows and, if
you have one, a mouse. It works with virtually any MS-DOS
computer and monitor.
A thorough test of Album Trax would involve entering the names
of hundreds of records, which I haven't done. But since the
program is shareware, you can get a copy from another owner, a
user group or a computer bulletin board and legally try it out
for practically nothing. If you like it, you pay for it. Or
you can get a registered copy directly by mailing a check or
money order for $25 to Saugatuck Software Inc., Box 2238,
Westport, Conn. 06880. Connecticut residents must add 8 percent
sales tax.