Album Tracker

Digital music sales may have taken over in recent years, but many people still have extensive collections of CDs, audio cassettes and vinyl records that need to be organized.

Album Tracker is a lightweight and fairly straightforward utility that can help you sort this media into relevant categories and keep track of items that have been lent to your friends. However, it features a very outdated user interface.

This application may prove to be invaluable in the hands of users who prefer to keep their music on physical media rather than on their hard drives or even in the cloud. It can help you track each CD, cassette or record, as well as organize your collection in an intuitive manner.

Album Tracker features a tabbed interface layout, with each tab representing a certain album category. While it is probably best to sort titles based on genre, there are no limits to how the groups can be named.

When adding a new album to the database, you can insert important details such as its location, media, label, condition, rating and value. Several personalized fields can be created by each user.

Album art can also be inserted, but it is important to note that the images are not stored within the saved database file, so you need to make sure they are placed in the same folder when selecting a new collection. Also, only GIF image files are supported.

A number of predefined reports are available for printing by default, and the application also allows you to specify which fields should be included in the output document, as well as define the printing range.

Overall, Album Tracker is a relatively simple application can come to the aid of music buffs who wish to organize album collections stored on physical media. It could certainly do with a visual upgrade, however, as well as a few other minor improvements.