IMARC845  I'm a very long-time CDFinder user. I think I started with it back at version 1.6 or so...

I've always found it to be exactly what I need for all of my indexing. It's made the transition with me from CD to DVD to Hard Drive archives. I can search over 350 archive files in less than a minute and subsequent searches take much less than that. (Some of my HD archives have over 100,000 files on them.)

I've always found Norbert Doerner to be responsive to user requests and bug reports. And the application's indices are cross-platform compatible with CDWinder for Windows.

Yes, the user has to establish their own methodology for how to flag media. I happen to like not being pinned down to someone else's idea of how discs/files should be cataloged.

I've always recommended CDFinder and will continue to do so. If you don't like it, feel free to look elsewhere. But I see no reason to badmouth what works so well for so many people.  
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