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1st o August, 2008
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Yes, you can use drag and drop to catalog your old album collections.
ReaderwareAW allows you to automatically catalog an item in two ways:
Auto-Catalog
- Scan the barcode or enter the UPC, ReaderwareAW looks up the product
using the UPC and catalogs it for you complete with cover art.
Drag and Drop
- Search for the album at any one of the supported sites, then drag and
drop from your browser to ReaderwareAW and it is cataloged.
Most vinyl releases predate the barcode. Many artists actually resisted
efforts by the major labels to add barcodes to albums feeling that the
barcode interfered with the album cover art. Even albums with barcodes
are typically not listed at todays online retailers. So auto-catalog
will not normally work.
But you can use drag and drop to easily catalog vinyl. Drag and drop from the excellent All Music Guide. They have album listings and reviews going back decades.
Another good site for cataloging and buying both US and European vinyl is eil.com They have great cover art.
The Library of Congress has many older vinyl listings. Go to The Library of Congress search page. Enter the artist name in the search field and select the Name field from the drop down list.
If an album has also been released on CD, you can drag and drop the
CD version from any supported online retailer and change the format.
Drag and drop works best if you have your collection organized by
artist. Do an artist search at All Music Guide, Barnes and Noble,
Tower, Amazon, LOC etc. Pick the matching title, drag and drop, Hit
back in your browser to return to the artist list, pick the next title,
drag and drop and so on.
Of course you can also enter items manually 
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