Cataloging-Tool for OSX?

I've always used, CD Finder, it's good, reliable and easy to use. Recently I'm starting to rely more on the features of OS X though by indexing any CD or DVD backup and then using Spotlight to search for stuff.

Here's an article I found that goes through the process:
www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/10/cdindex/index.php

thanks Julian, i hoped you would read this, cause i thought you would have similar "problems" ... spotlight keeps getting really REALLY slow here and i heard this from others as well, i need an easy and fast yet powerful tool. tagging, or at least adding comments and /or keywords should be possible.

the article seems to be very "hardcore" with unix. commands, i do understand and can use these but it's not easy and nice enough i think :) there MUST be better ways.

to be honest I don't find myself searching through stuff much, I back up client work to discs for that client only, and use multi session. So when looking for something, there's not a lot of places to go look. I back up my own stuff to external drives, as I need to get at it a lot more. My really old stuff is on CD Finder, and newer stuff I have tried the method I mentioned, can't say I've needed to test it though.

I would go with CD Finder, it is more elegant and as I said, easy and reliable. I used to use Retrospect before that, for automated back up and search.

yes, a good backup-concept is way more important than the tools anyway. but i DO have a lot of DVDs now with several backups, some online-backups as well, external drives etc. would be great if i could just use spotlight or another tool to search through all the shit i ever saved, wherever... my brains are too small ;-))
thanks anyway Julian! :)

I have blogged about this and my testing now (german) look here:
blog.assbach.de/2007/08/10/katalogisierungs-tools-fur-mac-osx/

www.versiontracker.com/php/qs.php?mode=basic&action=search&str=catalogue&srchArea=all&submit=Go

I had personally been using Tri-Catalog, but that was back on OS 9. Other than that I pretty much follow Julian's approach. After all, if I have to juggle discs then I might as well just go through them manually. And like Julian said: Everything is catalogued by client, so I know where to look without having to do searches.

1. external harddiscs are full - no money for new ones
2. i want several backup techniques, to make sure at least ONE is working
3. i have about 300 old backup cds/dvds i cannot just throw away
4. some software "needs" to be on a dvd / image to be installed
5. mp3s on an external drive wont play in my car
...
CDFinder seems to be the slowest one of all.
yes, i have seen the tools listed at version tracker, that's where i found some others ( i don't like )

thanks Werner!

FileBrowse ist übrigens keine catalog-software an sich, aber auch nicht schlecht zum organisieren
www.filebrowse.com/


video:
www.filebrowse.com/video.html

oh das schau ich mir mal an, danke dir!

Ich benutze auch schon ewig den CDFinder für meine viiielen DVDs. Reicht eigentlich vollkommen aus um bestimmte Sachen wieder zu finden. Wenn man weiss wie die heissen.
Eigentlich fehlt mir da nur noch eine kleine Vorschau wie bei iView MediaPro.