Can anyone recommend a user friendly CD Data Base software.

I have been using Music Collector for a number of years, since they have stopped using CDDB for the on line catalogue there has been far more errors on track listings.

Options are fairly limited - (assuming you're on a Windows PC)
-Windows Media Player
-iTunes

The others I've seen all use FreeDB (CDDB), which does have many gaps. If people submitted their correctly tagged files, perhaps FreeDB would be better quality..

Despite a dislike of Apple/iTunes, I've recently been using iTunes with a plug-in called "Tuneup". This is a commercial plug-in, and does a very good job of identifying MP3s and re-tagging correctly.
There is a free trial, and if you're happy to use iTunes - give it a go.

For instance, I've got a Dusty Springfield CD. It was released in 2007. The tracks were 1960's. Windows Media player et al, will tag them with the 2007 date (not helpful if you want some 60's!)
The "tuneup" plug-in will tag them correctly.

It only works with iTunes, and does take a while to run- a few seconds per song. Also iTunes wants to download album art, so that also slows things down (grr)
However, the results are very good.

Hope this helps,
Jason

the database needs to run with Vista.

I wouldn't be able to use the i tunes or media player as that would require me to convert my 20,000 song collection to mp3 and would take best part of 6 months to do.

have a look at cattraxx

Here's another ......... MusicIP and it's FREE!

Just tried Tuneup and didn't get on to well with it, it crashed every third song, could find album artwork or the right albums and was basically worse than itunes..........


...but hey ho at least I only tried the demo.

It works fine for me, but I would prefer a stand-alone app.
I did spend quite a bit of time checking out other tools- but most used FreeDB.

The only downside is that it takes ages to run.

I did try the MusicIP software as suggested by djsilver but its still too early to say if its any good for me.

I use Music Database 2000 (MDB2000), have done now for about seven years and it,s OK for me. It does use CDDB.

Here is a link http://www.musicdatabasesoftware.com/