RUBAIYAT  I am wondering if it is worth upgrading from Toast version to the full version.

Whilst the RE version that comes with Toast works reasonably well, there are quirks. Because the search and find is cumbersome for catalogs of for instance my RIPed DVDs, I make up an indexed list by copying from the DiskCatalogMakerRE list, hopefully as large a range as I can, usually from each archive disk.

Unfortunately it is extremely difficult to select the text. I have tried everything: holding down modifier keys, double or multiple clicking, sliding into each part, clicking on a higher hierarchy then a lower. When I finally succeed I have no idea why. Sometimes it just stubbornly won't let me select the text at all.

I have exported the data as text hoping to clean it up and use that but it doesn't produce a clean tab delimited text file. Volume names run into file and folder names. The only tabs are used to separate the file size data and creator dates.

The developers are uncontactable, the website offers no feedback, forums nor contact emails. This certainly bodes ill for me should I upgrade to the full version and still encounter these problems.

More than a shame really, why would you want to hide from your users and their potentially useful suggestions and bug reports?  
(Version 6.0.2b2)

MISHA  I love this app. I tried CDFinder, which is very good, but simply prefer DCM. Maybe it's because I remember using old Classic versions back in the day... but I just had a need for something like this again recently and it's fitting the bill perfectly. Great app!  
(Version 6.0.1)

SHANE C SMITH  If this could read ID tags from mp3s then this would be my catalogue program of choice. Since it does not I'm stuck with CDFinder and it's really bad interface.  
(Version 6.0b2)

MR.LON  THE BEST!!!  
(Version 4.4)

CHRISCHRAM  Version 4.3b2 fixes the crashing problem I observed in version 4.3b1. Good work developer.  
(Version 4.3b2)

RUBAIYAT  I searched for a long time to replace my ideal Disk cataloguer Disk Recall when it failed to update to OSX.

When I got this with Toast I was more than happy. It is reliable, reasonably intuitive and fast, does batch scanning and auto-scan & eject of CDs, allows correction of disk names and separate libraries for different categories.

The search function is a little odd, depending where you do it, I am never quite sure it is searching one or all libraries. I'd also love to search across multiple parameters.

It also tends to dump scanned volumes into the default library even though I would rather it go into the foremost library, then I have to drag the scanned volumes across to where I really want them.

All in all it does most of what you want, has a clear pleasant legible interface and works well with Toast, cataloguing each disk as you burn it.  
(Version 4.3b1)

CHRISCHRAM  Version 4.3b1 crashes when I try to open one of my catalog files. This is still an excellent application, but skip this version.  
(Version 4.3b1)

JOSDANS  No drag-and-drop!  
(Version 4.2.2)

DJINIBABY  canīt import from cd finder :-(  
(Version 4.2.2b2)

KAKUNA  I went through many cataloging apps, testing their speed, memory usage, and user-friendliness. The contestents were DiskLibrary, Haxial's 2003 DiskCatalog, CDFinder, Media Indexer, Media Catalog, Media Indexer, and (of course) DiskCatalogMaker X 4.2.1. I tested them all on a 100GB drive with about 2000 files on it, and while some choked, or spent 5 minutes on it. Haxial's DiscCatalog was fairly zippy, but nothing comes close to DiskCatalogMaker. It scanned the whole drive within seconds, complete and reliable. Searches are just as fast, and the interface, while in it's current version less appealing than Media Catalog or DiskLibrary, is still comfortable.  
(Version 4.2.1)