Computer organizing cds = xpost

I am starting to catalogue my cds from the internet, which I've kept as hard
copy files only. I want to be able to search in a very limited number of
categories, which are as follows

Composer Work Individual Artists Conductor Orchestra Year
Performed File #

These are the ONLY categories I need. I want to be able to search in any of
the categories, and in "Individual Artists" for any one of a number of
artists who might be listed. The File # column will just be for my reference
only, and won't need to be searchable.

I will not need any other information. At some point in the future I might
conceivably want to put my commercial cds and lps into some kind of file
system, but in reality I don't think it will ever have to be more
complicated than this.

I don't like entering a lot of data, have a big backlog, and need this to be
simple.

Does anyone have any recommendations? It occured to me EXCEL might be the
simplest way to do it, but I am not sure about the "Invidual Artists"
category, since there would usually be half a dozen names in such category
for each performance, and I want to be able to find, say, all "Schwarzkopfs'
in all the cds in the index with a single inquiry.

Any ideas will be appreciated, but it all has to be simple.

Thanks

On Jul 4, 9:09 pm, "REG" <Richer....TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I am starting to catalogue my cds from the internet, which I've kept as hard
> copy files only. I want to be able to search in a very limited number of
> categories, which are as follows
>
> Composer Work Individual Artists Conductor Orchestra Year
> Performed File #
>
> These are the ONLY categories I need. I want to be able to search in any of
> the categories, and in "Individual Artists" for any one of a number of
> artists who might be listed. The File # column will just be for my reference
> only, and won't need to be searchable.
>
> I will not need any other information. At some point in the future I might
> conceivably want to put my commercial cds and lps into some kind of file
> system, but in reality I don't think it will ever have to be more
> complicated than this.
>
> I don't like entering a lot of data, have a big backlog, and need this to be
> simple.
>
> Does anyone have any recommendations? It occured to me EXCEL might be the
> simplest way to do it, but I am not sure about the "Invidual Artists"
> category, since there would usually be half a dozen names in such category
> for each performance, and I want to be able to find, say, all "Schwarzkopfs'
> in all the cds in the index with a single inquiry.
>
> Any ideas will be appreciated, but it all has to be simple.
>
> Thanks