An Album Cover View Describes Each Album That Answered Your Question Maestro's Response To Questions In response to questions, Maestro displays an Album Cover View of each album that fulfilled your question's criteria, one album at a time. If there is more than one album, use the ARROW buttons at the top of the Album Cover View window to move to and display any other Album Cover View. Understanding what's displayed in the Album Cover View window is as simple as reading an album cover as ONE window displays all of the content information written on an album's cover, with a logical location and a readily understandable label for each item. Also included are other album-specific details such as a musical category, ratings by critics, play prompts, and user-entered notes. With other software, you must suffer through opening form after form to display this content. Furthermore, most other cataloging programs lack the ability to track and logically display all of these classical-music-related details. A description of the fields and buttons on the Album Cover View window used to reply to your questions follows. NOTE: In addition to the details shown below, Maestro's response to questions include copy-specific details such as purchase cost, appraised value, condition, label/pressing variations, and filing location(s) of any and all copies of an album that fulfilled your question's criteria. This information displays in the Physical Attributes window.

An example of an Album Cover View displayed in response to a question. The Critics area can be turned on/off as needed.

Description Of This Album Cover View Most of the information displayed above is self-explanatory. Of particular note is the information in the Play Prompts, Musical Category, and Critic's fields. See Album Cover View Window—Described for an in-depth description of the Album Cover View window including details on how to utilize the fields mentioned below to enhance your control of your album collection. Musical Category: Musical categories group albums—in this case "Horn Concertos"—with others that share the same musical category. 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. Play Prompts: In the photo, "Sunday Morning" and "Jim" are play prompts that group this album with others that are perfect for a Sunday Morning listening session or to play when your friend Jim visits. When a play prompt is part of a question's criteria, any albums mentioned in Maestro's response will be limited to those that share a particular play prompt and fulfill the rest of the question's criteria. Critics: In the photo, "Moon 10/9" in the Critic's section pertains to Robert Moon and Michael Gray, the co-authors of Full Frequency Stereophonic Sound. In their book they recommend this recording and rate it a "10" in performance quality and a "9" in sound, i.e., how well the recording captured the performance. Their ratings are based on a scale from 1 to 10 with 10 being the best. Like musical categories and play prompts, recommended recordings by any one or any combination of these critics can be part of a question's criteria. FOR LP USERS: Use of the Archive method to enter album descriptions provides a near instantaneous and automated means to enter a description of any LP that's in the LP Archive Library. Many of the available pre-entered descriptions include critical recommendations, such as the Moon rating shown in the photo, and mention recommended pressings and contain relevant quotes from various critics. Edit button: In the photo, clicking the EDIT button changes the Album Cover View window from the display mode to the enter/edit mode. If the Album Cover View window displays an album description when the EDIT button is clicked, that album description will display in the enter/edit mode version of the Album Cover View window in response to that click. In the photo, in response to clicking the EDIT button, the album description for London CS 6178 displays in the enter/edit mode version of the Album Cover View window. This enables editing, copying or deleting that album with but another button click. KEY FEATURE: This feature, partnered with the Copy method, can expedite the entry of album descriptions into your album database. Ask Maestro questions to find a previously entered album that has some similarity to an album you wish to enter. Once found, click EDIT then the COPY button to create portions of the new album description automatically. $$ button: When the $$ button at the top of the Album Cover View window is active (not grayed out), as shown in the photo, this indicates the Physical Attributes window is not open. In that event, clicking that button opens that window. The $$ button, when active, is color coded. A black $$ button indicates that you own at least one copy of the album currently described in the Album Cover View window. A red $$ button indicates the album is on your Wish List. Record # Indicator: In response to questions, Maestro displays an Album Cover View of each album that fulfilled your question's criteria, one album at a time. If there is more than one album, use the ARROW buttons at the top of the Album Cover View window to move to and display any other Album Cover View. The Record # Indicator located below the BINOCULARS button indicates the number of album descriptions available for display. “Record 1 of 1" in the above photo indicates there is only one Album Cover View available. A display of "Record 1 of 3" would indicate three album descriptions. In that event, clicking the Right ARROW button enables perusing the 2nd Album Cover View. After clicking that arrow, the Record indicator would read "Record 2 of 3". Gain Flexibility In How You File Albums As discussed in the physical attributes section, the filing location of each copy of each album that fulfills a question's criteria is included in Maestro's response. Therefore, you no longer have to group albums that share a specific category together in order to locate them. Even if your albums are filed alphabetically by conductor name, Maestro can locate each copy of each album that contains a clarinet concerto. Of course, Maestro can locate albums based on criteria significantly more complex than that example. The ability to pinpoint each album’s filing location provides tremendous flexibility, enabling the use of any filing strategy or strategies. Maestro Cannot Find Albums Previously Entered—Why? If a question that Maestro Manager responds to should include an album, for instance London CS 6419, but does not, there are three likely reasons as described in this link.