Users of OrangeCD: Satisfied or not??

[gurnemanz]

Well .... it looks as though this program is winding down to the end of its useful life, eh?
I suspect it's because there are so many freeware programs out there that do as good a job or better than this OrangeCD program.

Or .... the developer has just lost interest or gone on to more lucrative endeavours.

It's too bad; it had a good following for a number of years, and even with it's temperamental nature it did a decent job.

Well .... it looks as though this program is winding down to the end of its useful life, eh?
[I still find it very useful, indispensable in fact, on a daily basis]

I suspect it's because there are so many freeware programs out there that do as good a job or better than this OrangeCD program.
[Which are the ones that do the same job as OCD and can I transfer my database across without re-entering everything?]

Or .... the developer has just lost interest or gone on to more lucrative endeavours.
[Maybe. Obviously, there is scope for future tweaking of the programme but it works well enough for me as it is]

It's too bad; it had a good following for a number of years, and even with it's temperamental nature it did a decent job.
[Maybe I've been lucky but I haven't experienced this temperamental nature. With 3675 CDs in my collection, life would be too short for me to start again.

[Gagliem]

I agree with gurnemanz...

I can only partially complain about teh fact that Andrei told us about a new version he's working on and could be nice to have some news...

... But about the actual OCD,
I've never found a freeware/registered program which can be easily costomizable like this one, allowing user's javascript functions or making it referencing external dll's or plugins to do what we want, starting frome being a novice programmer to an advanced one, you can do a lot of things.

If you find a freeware that coud do what I mentioned above, just tell us and we'll check it... a good competition always make programs evolve better...
but without names... actually OCD, as-is, is great...

[davidagbr]

I bought OrangeCD back in 2001, even after switching to Macs a few years ago, I'm still using OCD (via Parallels on my MacBookPro).

Although OCD is not perfect, and there are many features that could/should be implemented, I haven't found a suitable alternative that meets my needs as well as OCD.

So, satisfied??? I guess so!! ;-P

Now a Mac OSX compatible version of OCD.... that WOULD be cool!

[noyse]

i'm using three programs, because every program has its assets and limitations:

OCD - for fast overwiew and search and the integration with racks and tags
Tag & rename - for fast writing and changing id-tags
helium Music manager - for playing and managing my whole music collection, changing id-tags, and information about artists etc.

heliums strength is the possibility to use mysql or sql databases or access db, so its very flexible and if you use mysql you can take these db to your website if you want. But for a simple search its to slow, so i use ocd for that. imho theres is no faster databased program.

with helium you can also tag, but it takes time for writing changes. Its no problem if you change some files, but for a larger amount its not that comfortable. So i use for that work tag and rename. it is fast and high customizeable.

ps: for searching for covers i use album art downloader it searches in discogs, google, amazon and so on.

[dugn]

I searched for years to find the best CD Cataloging program. And this is it. I'm pretty picky about every aspect of my collection - which is why I think the abbreviation "OCD" is so appropriate.

I love this program. It rocks!

[jhonnie62]

Hi all

after long time work with Orange CD i like to give all a short report over my experience.

The Software on self is a great intervention on Customer based expectation. Its design for Beginners and Experts.
The handling is easy and together with other tools such as Auomatic tag re-searcher or Cover Down loader the best tool on the Market.

With few clicks you get your own catalog of you Collection and can provide to your Friends and/or Publish in the Web.

The Basic Expedience is enough to handling the HTML export. for experts and Html Programmers is it easy to learn and understand the Scripting for the Export.

But nothing is Perfect as anybody know.

positives:
- easy User interface
- simple handling of Import
- simple modify of Details
- useful Query Search
- creation of Box-sets
- Artist and track Details free configurable
- Notes / Biography /Artist-photo can be add
- Html and other export Format's can be use

some Problems found:
- if Tag's is saved as UTF-8 Code (Unicode) lost Lyrics
( is Fix by Andrej in the next Update )
- Track Year is not Import correct
( only if all tracks has same Date )
- some time in large Database is the Cover not import in the correct Size
(easy to maintain)
- Database becomes unstable if a large selection of Entry's is to modify
( sample: 100 Enrty's modify the Category)
- missing " search and replace" command
- no import of XLS (Excel) sheet's

wishes:
- better help file for the temp-let creator
- with samples for the script's
- more explainable "how to do"
- in Scanning of Mp3 better tag recognizing (more Fields import)

Jhonnie / Malaysia
[url]http://myi-ath.cx[/url]

[deadone]

well im using the trial, i have to say that im liking its functions.
a few more themes for export would be nice but thats no real big issue.

what i dont like is the lack of support. i ask a ?? and no 1 even makes a reply, more so the creator. im guessing your not that interested in getting new members to purchase your software.

[jhonnie62]

Exprot and modify themes is real a questions for users without any experience. its more easy to get it done with more temples .
but still you can do on you alone with small experimental status on your self.

I use the CMI sample as my base and have modify with play around what is possible.

[url]http://myi.ath.cx[/url]

but still you can do more

[Tony]

I have used this software for several years and I'm very pleased with it. It has to be the best software program I have ever purchased. It never gets old and is constantly being improved. I highly recommend it.

-Tony (long time OCD user)

[Sjlamb]

No! It's stopped working and no support!