IT WONT REGISTER FOR ME. NOT SURE WHAT I'M DOING WRONG. ENTERED CODE THEN SELECTED REGISTER BUT IT SAYS ALLMYSONGS DATABASE IS NOT AVALIABLE ON GAOTD. WHATS GOING ON? BEEN TRYING FOR HOURS. SAME MSG EVERY TIME.
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/

Almost everything I install is installed to or run in a sandbox first to check for suitability, quality, footprint and behavour. Much better to find a silently installed unwanted toolbar or whatever in your sandbox than on your main windows installation. That said I can't see why something like this would need a reboot in itself. Can see that 'system files' may be installed if a program uses dot net or whatever and it isnt there already but wouldn't expect that to reboot either. One drawback is that any programs that use a view of your computer contents in activation will not recognise your computer from outside your sandbox. Be sure to install outside after if you want to keep whatever it is.

There is a wide range of experiences with many programs that are offered here. Often problems spoken about by others about getting something to work are baffling but occasionally I've found something wouldn't run that others praised. The recent InPaint lookalike just wouldn't run for me sandboxed or not. The version from their own website wouldn't either. Something in the set of files on a particular computer doesn't gel sometimes. When something extreme happens it is surely a combination of factors. Use a computer long enough and you'll get the blue screen of death sooner or later. Your computer has been shudown to prevent you recovering it kinda thing.

I wouldn't expect one program to read anothers database to see changes made there. Why would it ? Don't get that. If you use multiple programs you have to assume that they're not all going to know what each other does. Even if they do theres a judgment whether you as a software writer are only boosting competition or if its a selling point. I suspect that many would think that if someone is using multiple programs they have less chance selling anyway.

The comments about categorising artists were interesting. I need something to catalog the tunes I might need to learn and things I have recorded. Windows and programs want to list by artist and album, and look up online databases for album art etc that doesn't exist. Sometimes what you want to do isn't what most people would want to do. If something doesn't cover what you would like it doesn't make it bad in itself. It may be fine for many others maybe even most others. If the mp3 is your own then bog standard file information is more helpful than what windows thinks you want etc

About today's GOTD, some salient facts. You have to manually add new folders to catalog them, there's no automatic search facility to find music folders on your PC. It is cripplingly slow adding files from each folder you add to the database. With hundreds of music folders, this would take all day and more over several if not many days, so for all practical purposes, it is absolutely useless, unless starting off a music collection database from scratch. It also seems to freeze and lock up if adding files from a folder with many music sub-folders, requiring Ctrl + Alt + Del to shut the thing down.

For this sort of price, I might have expected an auto drive search across all of my hard drives. This program requires serious work, before it is of any real commercial value, sorry!

tried hard to have it do something. There are so many programs (mp3tag, free,...) doing good things that I can't imagine anybody would pay for such a g33k centered obscure unfriendly thing. Remind me, what was it supposed to do ?

I have Vista and this downloaded fast and without a hitch - one of the easiest downloads I ever had here - no emailing, no password. Program comes up fine and I am playing around with it.

Cant say why people get blue screens and so many problems but I wonder if it isn't because their systems aren't stable and it has nothing at all to do with the program. I am more easygoing than some I guess and am fine with a shortcut on the desktop (I can always delete it if I don't want it, fer chrisakes) and I don't care if it wants to make its own folder.

Time and again I have seen litanies of complaints about downloads here on downloads I've found simple to the point of absurdity considering the build up. Because of all the warnings I did create a restore point just before downloading today. Didn't need it.

Bottom line: If your system is stable and you are curious or interested today, go ahead download this program and try it out, with the simple safeguard of creating a restore point beforehand.

Thanks GAOTD and developers once again.

I'm nervous about trying to install this as I DON'T need to see a blue screen of death...however, I went to try the one suggested by Terry via a link, (comment # 12) called Best Organizer and looked good but tells you AFTER you install that it's $39.95. So since a couple people got this in on their Windows 7/64 bit, I'll bite. Thanks GOTD..I NEED a program like this with the close to 1000 songs I have in here on my hard drive.

I've been using GotD software for some time now without comment. I download pretty much everything daily and load it into a virtual machine. If the software is really good, I then may load it onto my Win7 x64 system.

I tried this in both the VM and my host system. It installed with no problems. I have about 40K mp3s. The host system locked up and then crashed every time when it hit ~10,300 songs. I tried multiple settings to no avail and then uninstalled it.

Thanks for offering this software,but after reading the many,many negative comments,and the huge amount of problems associated with this program,I think I'll pass on it. Thanks once again,GOTD.

I too am looking for a better iTunes replacement. Based on the reviews here today, I will not be trying this offer.

Installed software on Windows 7 system. Program took hours to create database (which wasn't unexpected) but after I closed the program and tried to reopen it it kept hanging up when I tried to open the new database. Got hourglass that never went away. I uninstalled this.

If you like to organise music by folders, then Tag2folders is freeware.
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/tags2folders.html

Just surfed to check JB Music Catalogue freeware suggested by Giovanni. Apparently it handles Unicode. The JB stands for author's name John Bradshaw.

I installed this program on window 7/64bit, no problems,
- easy. And this to 100 max songs be the limit to registration,
so reach it and register of free, to increase limit.

Thanks

I use the search program "Everything" which finds songs in a fraction of a second. May try today's GOTD but have a large song/music collection so it may take ages upon ages to catalog! Although pay for, "Folder Scout" is really excellent at finding folders including of course music eg CD folders.

Years ago I had a programme, " DJ2000 " that was excellent. Have searched and only found trial version, guess Company is gone. It was a basic database compiler. It gave otion to re-name, retag, and print listing of all music I had. Anyone know of an updated version? Thanks GAOTD, appreciate your daily offerings!

guys guys guys why complain about something that is free if you find probles with the software let the auther know work with them to fix it and then we would see a new and better version put back on giveawayoftheday. I If you like to do DJING at home our your a pro and like to organize so you can get to it simply and easy here is a bit of great free mixer i use all the time http://www.mixxx.org

@ #13 God bless ANYTHING that will replace I-Tunes! =:-) That, in itself would deserve a "thumbs up".

Well, this GAOTD is an excellent program that does what it claims flawlessly and effectively.

So once again its current low (misleading) GAOTD users' rating does not reflect the real value of the software.

THUMBS UP from me!!

That being said, I believe that the app "JB Music Catalogue" is sligtly better and a little bit more complete than this....

JB MUSIC CATALOGUE KEY FEATURES:

. Any music formats can be catalogued, and new formats can be added.
· Link albums that have the same song on them
· Catalogue your iTunes Music Library
· Catalogue your MP3 / WMA files
· Produce customisable reports of your music collection
· Export your reports to pdf, word, excel
· Play your music
· Import lyrics for your songs
· Import album art from a folder
· Add multiple pictures for each album and artist
· View all pictures full size
· Create a discography for each artist
· Create a wishlist
· Import and export albums between catalogues
· Many different ways to view your music
· Filter for specific media types
· Change the appearance of the program
· Download latest updates from the internet


Download:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/File-CD-DVD-Catalog/JB-Music-Catalogue.shtml

Screenshots:
http://www.softpedia.com/progScreenshots/JB-Music-Catalogue-Screenshot-172125.html

Did I mention that it's also damn FREE?? LOL!


Enjoy!!

Cheers from Italy!!

@julia I too downloaded, installed and tried this program on it's last offering. Suffered the Blue Screen of Death as well. When I saw that it was being offered yet again I waited for comments to appear. And, quite obviously, these are not good.

I won't be downloading this one at all. Once bitten, twice shy.

If you DO happen to download this one I would definitely be watching EVERY aspect of the installation making darn sure that it's NOT attempting to overwrite critical files.

Personally, I will NOT be downloading today's offer.

W7 x64
version 2.1

installs into directory of your choice, 11 MB

but then also adds a load of Visual Basic related (from what I can tell) files
into \Windows\SysWOW64\, 4 MB:

ccrpftv6.ocx, cPopMenu6.ocx, MCI32.OCXmscomctl.ocx, msderun.dll, MSINET.OCX
MSSTDFMT.DLL, msvcp60.dll, msvcrt.dll, prgiso.dll, ssubtmr6.dll, VB5DB.dll
vbalIml6.ocx, vbalsgrid6.ocx, vbalTreeView6.ocx

mouseover on icons shows tooltips

went to add a file/directory & then the program crashed.
APPCRASH in shell32.dll

Registered the program, & it hung with an hourglass.


& so, the story ends ...
http://www.amazon.com/So-Story-Ends-Does/dp/B0025W4W0K

But will it replace the free iTunes software?

I use this software, it does everything I need
http://www.bestorganizer.net/best-music-library-organizer.html

Thank you GOTD for this freeware for today, but I'll pass on this from what I'm reading on the comments, I can't take a chance and loose my Windows and restore, I have too much Music and Video Files stored on my HDD.

I have over 1000 CDs in my collection, I am certainly willing to see if it works for my needs.

A warning to all: An earlier version of AllMySongs Database offered in January 2010 overwrote crucial system files and severely damaged my Windows XP installation. Following installation, it demanded a reboot. Upon rebooting I got the blue screen of death with a fatal system error from the Windows Logon process. I had to take my operating system back to the version on my installation disk, and restoring all the Microsoft updates took another day. I reported this on GOTD without any response from FOTIS.

Even worse, the next time the program was offered in April 2010, Bob Levy reported a similar catastrophe on his Windows Vista machine, again without response from FOTIS.

I don't care whether FOTIS have fixed this program since. They've never acknowledged, explained or apologised for the damage previously reported by GOTD users, and I have no reason to trust their ability to deliver safe programs.

Installed, wanted to add files from a home network pc, on the right pane are 2 files displayed: desktop.ini and target.lnk ! Ridiculous. Uninstalled right away.

Can not play music CD, instable, have crached 3 times within 10 minutes of testing.

Installed on Vista without problem. I liked the arrangement of the window, but
* inability to re-size panes is poor.

* The icons along the top need tooltips or a text explanation.

* The program didn't seem able to "Save and close" - I get "error 3044" about a "non-valid path". (The data was saved though).

* There is no way to see if data is being saved into the file. If I add lyrics or a rating in AllMySongs, will that cross-over into (say) MediaMonkey? The answer is no (even after refreshing the database).

* Search is generally weak -
there is no ability to search additional databases (e.g. Amazon.co.uk versus Amazon.com.) and I searched for lyrics without success and yet found them in seconds via google. The program did find the album cover in seconds - far faster than MediaMonkey.

* The information is wierd - this is "a band" stills asks for D.O.B.

* The text in "Thisisa" needs reformatting - as does a lot more of the text in the "Edit" box.

* "Thisisa" only alows "Person" or "Band", what about a "Duo"?

* The "play panel" plays the playlist tracks, not the currently selected track. Once the track is in the playlist pane, the "play panel" works as expected.

* Data added to "Comments" in MediaMonkey gets put in "TagComment" in AllMySongs, so is unreadable. yet AllMySongs also has a "UserComments" that is empty.

Bottom line. I like the layout and the speed at which it finds stuff when it can find it. I don't like fixed panes, the serious lack of cross-over and the unfinished look. Would I pay €23 for this? No.

Uninstalled after test.
Failed in one critical area.
Cannot support Unicode.
Like designing a car without brakes.
This is a NO-NO.

The freeware TagScanner (latest version 5-1-605 just out)and TagTuner (GiveawayOfTheDay on 25Nov2011) both can handle Unicode.

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Run Program with Administrator Rights
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AllMySongs Database needs administrator's rights to run correctly. The program will exit now.
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Will not run program with Administrator Rights
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AllMySongs needs 7 LUA compliance to run correctly. The evaluation will exit now.
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@#1 That would be the quick search which funnily enough lets you quickly search for something specific by whatever index you want. The other search does what you ask getting everything. If it searches unasked like Picassa it would just be a resource consuming nuisance. Thanks GOTD for a good program. Had older version from previous giveaway. Thanks gotd for an excellent program.

Also, I can't find a volume control for the built-in music player. My neighbor has just informed me this annoys him too.

I used to use this software a while back. This is quite good. But I like Media Monkey better. But as a free offer, it is to grab soon who has a large collection of music to manage.

I'm struggling to find anything good to say about this program. It started going wrong during install, when it wanted to put itself in c:\Allmysongs, rather than the more normal (and logical) c:\program files\allmysongs. Once setup was finished I saw it had placed an unwanted shortcut on my desktop. Two thumbs down so far.

The search capabilities are weak, requiring the user to decide which field they're searching (title, artists, etc) instead of automatically checking all fields. What's more, the actual search doesn't begin until the user clicks the button. I find instant, on-the-fly, as-I-type searches much more useful.

There are other problems but I'm getting depressed thinking about them all. Let's just say I won't be keeping this giveaway. It's not worth what I paid for it.