Maestro Manager Expedites Album Entry
Maestro Manager provides three methods that expedite entering album descriptions:

1. Manual: Making selections from intelligent, pre-programmed scrollable lists creates most of the album description. Automated functions built into Maestro augment this process by filling in some of the album description automatically. Use typing only to enter notes, album titles, or to make an infrequent addition to a scroll list. Entering an album description takes little time since it primarily involves selecting pre-entered details. (Use for LPs & CDs.)

2. Copy: Generates portions of an album description automatically. At the click of a button, Copy creates a nearly complete album description similar to an album entered previously. To complete this description, simply make a few modifications. For instance, when entering two or more albums that have compositions by the same composer, changing Symphony 1 to Symphony 5, Abbado to Previn, and Chicago Symphony to London Symphony, is faster than entering the entire description manually. Copy is also beneficial when entering, for example, Telarc CD 80041 when its LP equivalent Telarc DG 10041 is already in the database. See tip on finding similar albums entered previously. (Use for LPs & CDs.)

3. Archive: Creates the entire album description automatically. At the click of a button, Archive adds a pre-entered album description to your album database. This results in an instantaneous entry of an album! These pre-entered album descriptions are contained within Maestro Manager's LP Archive Library. With the use of this optional enhancement to Maestro Manager, collectors have access to pre-entered album descriptions of many wonderful LPs on Angel, Capitol, Columbia, Decca, Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Everest, London, Lyrita, Mercury, Philips, RCA, Westminster, and a few other labels. (Use for LPs.)

NOTE: Although there are Internet services that provide album descriptions of classical CDs that download into cataloging programs, these services lack the ability to provide pre-entered album descriptions for the multitudes of LPs owned by collectors. And album descriptions downloaded from the Internet, typically, do not provide the level of detail contained in Maestro's pre-entered descriptions.

With the Archive method a simple click creates a complete description of an album.

Duplicate Albums
KEY FEATURE: For duplicates, Maestro Manager minimizes the amount of information entered to track each duplicate. Instead of entering an entire album description, only enter the details unique to that duplicate, such as the purchase price and the album's storage location.