Your Collection’s Dedicated Librarian
Maestro Manager is a cataloging program that provides a sophisticated solution to the issues mentioned above. With the ability to answer nearly any question that pertains to an album collection, using Maestro Manager empowers absolute control of your collection. Maestro answers questions that range from a simple, "Which albums in my collection contain performances by Nathan Milstein and where are these albums filed?", to questions with significantly greater complexity. Among the benefits obtained with this level of knowledge, collectors know every detail about every album in their collection and can select the most appropriate album to play for any occasion and locate that album's filing location effortlessly. See pictures of how Maestro answers questions.

Create Questions To Ask Maestro Manager
Creating questions is a speedy process expedited by selecting details from scrollable lists of pre-entered names and clicking on check boxes. Unlike other cataloging programs, Maestro Manager does not limit your search abilities by responding to questions relating to but one or two classical-related items. Instead, base questions on any combination of composition titles, composers, conductors, orchestras, solo artists, album manufacturers, record labels, media types, storage locations, musical categories, play prompts, and critical recommendations such TAS Super Disc Listings or Robert Moon’s sound and performance ratings for recordings on London’s CS label. Taken collectively, the details selected become your question's criteria. With the question using the format, "Which albums in my collection fulfill my question's criteria?" For instance, when a musical category is part of a question's criteria, any albums mentioned in Maestro's response will be limited to those that share a particular musical category and fulfill the rest of the question's criteria. See picture of how to create and ask questions.

Integrate Your Collecting Style
To enhance Maestro’s librarian-like knowledge, Maestro adapts to characteristics important to each user via the ability to utilize user-defined criteria. Users integrate their style of collecting by adding to the details pre-programmed into the Musical Category, Play Prompts, and Storage Location scroll lists. These additions can be a friend's name, a sonic characteristic, a musical category, something pertinent to a limited group of CDs or LPs, or any other item relating to classical music, collecting, or an audiophile-related characteristic. These user-defined details become part of the searchable knowledgebase that empowers Maestro's librarian-like ability to answer questions.

What Do I Own?
With the ability to answer nearly any question that pertains to a collection, determining whether you own any LPs that contain piano concertos on The Absolute Sound's Super Disc List that have stunning dynamics that you should play when your friend Jasmine visits is as simple to address as determining which CDs in your collection contain works conducted by Stokowski.

What Should I Play?
Maestro Manager can prompt the selection of albums based on a variety of details including user-defined criteria such as a friend's name, a sonic characteristic, a musical category, or a critic's recommendation. Finding appropriate recordings when a music-loving friend visits is a breeze, as would be selecting the most appropriate album of several that contain Bartok compositions conducted by Leonard Bernstein, as well as finding albums that have a luscious midrange, that relate to a type of music such as cello concertos, or based on previous listening rate as one of your favorite albums or were recommended by any of several classical music critics. With large collections it is difficult to remember which albums out of the many owned are favored based on previous listening experiences. Maestro's ability to track and prompt the selection of favored albums is enormously helpful.

Where Did I File It? 
When responding to questions, Maestro's answers include the filing location of each copy of each album that fulfills a question's criteria. To ensure you can locate any album quickly, Maestro Manager pinpoints the filing location to a SPECIFIC PLACE within a SPECIFIC CABINET, shelf, room, or storage area. To enable this ability, Maestro dedicates 2 fields. One field (labeled "Where Stored") tracks the storage cabinet, shelf, room, or storage area and the second field tracks the section or an area within the Where Stored location where you filed the album. Examples include:

• the "Bach" section in the "For Sale" storage location • the "For Sale" section in "Cabinet #2" • the "Alwyn" section in the "Big Closet" • the "Reiner" section in the "Bedroom" • the "Piano Concerto" section in the "Upstairs Cabinet" • the "Verdi" section in the "Opera" storage location • the "Albeniz" section in the "Guitar" storage location • the "Spanish Music" section in the "Porch Cabinet" • "borrowed by Mary"

Maestro's responses to questions, if desired, can be limited to those albums stored in specific locations defined by the user such as "Main Cabinet", "Duplicates", "For Sale", "Borrowed Albums", "All Locations", "Opera", Cabinet #3" or "Bedroom Closet". See picture of the two fields used to describe an album's filing location.

Gain Flexibility In How You File Albums 
Because you no longer have to file albums that share a particular grouping together in order to locate them, you gain tremendous flexibility in how you file your albums. Instead of trying to keep all piano concertos or all Beethoven compositions together, you can file them in areas devoted to other groupings such as with other composers, other musical categories, with album labels, or 20th century music. Regardless of the strategy used to file albums, Maestro Manager can locate each album that contains a piano concerto or locate something as specific as each LP that contains a Beethoven composition performed by Ruggiero Ricci that has awesome string tone.

Other Cataloging Programs
Not every cataloging program tracks filing locations. Those programs that simply display descriptions of album content provide limited value if you cannot locate those albums. The few programs that track locations typically use but one field to represent the location. Instead of the “Bax” section in “Cabinet #2” other programs would track to “Cabinet #2.” This information is of limited value as where would you look in Cabinet #2 to locate albums that contain compositions written by multiple composers such as one that contains works by Alwyn, Grainger, Elgar, Leigh, and Bax? Instead of the “Bach section” of the “Upstairs Cabinet” another program would indicate the “Upstairs Cabinet.” If you own duplicates, each copy may be in different sections of the “Upstairs Cabinet” e.g., one filed by composer’s name and the other filed with albums that are “For Sale”. You might locate one copy, but the other would likely be aggravating to find.