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CDFinder - 5.5

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Version 5.5:	(4.5)
Selected Version:	5.5
Release Date:	2009-01-05
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 5.5):	2,373
Downloads (all versions):	177,148
Price:	$39.00

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Product Description:

CDFinder is the advanced disk cataloger application for the Mac, to help you organize your disk and data archive, and to keep track of your digital media assets.

Feature Overview:

Catalogue any hard disk, data folder, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, iPod, server volume, Audio-CD, USB-Stick, and more
Networkable: Share your database in your network
Cross-platform: with CDWinder for Windows, you can use one database for both worlds!
Powerful Find functions (more than any other tool in the market), and offline browsing
Search your local disks with Spotlight and as well as your catalogs from inside CDFinder
Import your existing Disk Recall, DiskWizard, FindIt, Disk Tracker, Catalogue and CatFinder catalog files
Read audio MP3 and AAC (iTunes) meta data (AIFF and WAVE, too)!
Quickly catalog a large stack of data CDs or DVDs using the Batch Catalog feature
Catalog your photo data, with EXIF, IPTC meta data, and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo info
Thumbnails for many photo file formats
Fast and really easy to use
Export or print your catalog data
Print beautiful jewel case and other labels
Handle really large amounts of data (some others are limited to a few thousand files!)
Look inside archive files: ZIP, TAR, .rar, StuffIt (.sit and even .sitx), and others
Multiple languages in one application: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, and Dutch
AppleScript Integrate CDFinder into your existing workflow
Extend your database by using the five new custom catalog fields for any content you need
Free email support
and more

What's new in this version:

CDFinder now catalogs important metadata of movie files (avi, mov, mp4, m4v, mpg, flv), such as the size and duration, as well as the frame rate and codec
Cataloging is much faster now, especially the creation of thumbnails of very large photos no longer blocks the user interface. You can now continue to work with CDFinder while cataloging several large disks at the same time
Stack Cataloging now works with multiple disk drives simultaneously. Just feed any disk into any drive, and CDFinder will rapidly catalog them all in parallel. Also, you can now set the catalog label and comment for any cataloged disk directly from the Stack Cataloging window
CDFinder now catalogs XMP metadata out of RAW, TIFF, PDF, EPS, JPG, and even sidecar files, increasing the compatibility to Adobe Bridge and all other Adobe applications
CDFinder can now also catalog the entire contents of disk image files (.dmg, .img, and .cdr)! Yet again, CDFinder is the only application available to offer this cool feature
The extended eject menu in the Stack Cataloging window can now open the tray of ejectable disk drives for you
The new GeoFinder dramatically improves the Geo-Search feature: A fully interactive map allows you to specify the starting point for your search, and you can use the current Google Earth position, along with preset locations and a new place search
CDFinder can now export geotags into the KMZ format, including previews of the actual photos and important metadata, such as the location and camera parameters. That does of course work for any photo formats
All photos with GPS data now have the GeoIcon badged to their thumbnail in the CDFinder windows
CDFinder can upload your geotagged photos to www.locr.com! Simply context click on any photo with a GeoTag, and use the context menu to start the upload dialog
When cataloging GPS data, CDFinder now also reads the azimuth, tilt, and distance values written by Graphic Converter and some GPS modules attached to Nikon cameras. This value is then used for "Reveal in Google Earth", as well as the KMZ export file
The GPS location data of a photo can now copied to the clipboard, using the context menu
Added SmugMug, WikiMapia, Yahoo Maps, Geody, OpenStreetMap, and Woophy to the GPS menu
Find can now also search by path, e.g. finding all files contained in a folder named "Star Trek" or such
CDFinder can now handle a wide range of URLs, such as cdfinder://find/gps/&city=Berlin&distance=5000m or cdfinder://find/audio/&album=Crime%20Of%20The%20Century. You can use that to interactively integrate CDFinder into your web sites and more. Please read more about this amazing new feature in the new, extended Users Guide
CDFinder now supports contextual menu modules just like the Finder does. This vastly expands the workflow options from within CDFinder, you can integrate Graphic Converter or Automator directly into CDFinder
Added a new view style to the CDFinder views: Blue. This looks like the sidebar of Finder and iTunes
CDFinder now fully supports Blue-Ray disks. Their type will be detected when cataloging, and the whole cataloging process is fully verified and certified for Blue-Ray now
Extended the Export to include MP3, EXIF, and IPTC metadata of all found items properly
The IPTC metadata in any export now has no Return characters, but these are replaced by either a comma or a blank
Fixed a small problem with the Disk Stakka interface that could cause disks with certain names to be overlooked
CDFinder now accepts its own catalog files with drag & drop into the catalog list. Any such files are now copied to the CDFinder database folder and used
When sorting, CDFinder now sub-sorts all items with the same label by name for better lists
Drawing in all CDFinder list windows is much faster now, you should notice that when resizing windows
Improved the detection of bit depth of TIFF photos: CDFinder now properly recognizes 24 and 48 bit images, and displays their color depth correctly in the Inspector and elsewhere
Fixed a small bug in the Find engine that could cause some parameters to omit proper results (Find Kind is Photo AND name ends with ".jpg" for example)
Fixed a small problem that caused random photo files to be excluded from cataloging, depending on their file size
Fixed a small bug that could cause context clicks to be ignored, if the view wasn't activated already
Fixed a small problem that caused the labels from the Finder to be matched to the wrong CDFinder labels
Fixed a small bug in AppleScript, where the found items would report the wrong version string type (short and long always returned the long version string)
Fixed a small problem in the "Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC for Windows)" importer, where some special characters in file or folder names were imported incorrectly

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Feedback Summary:

Version 5.5:
Overall Rating:	(4.5)	Features:	(4.5)	Support:	(4.5)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(4.5)	Price:	(4.5)

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needs .ai support - Version: 5.6, 7/6/2009 12:38PM PST

leadnut

needs more graphic filetypes for previewing-.ai and maybye even linking to 3d modeling apps that save preview info with files(almost all do)-but fast and stable!

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needs .ai support (1 replies)

Works perfectly - Version: 5.5, 1/29/2009 06:44AM PST

welcome--2008

I must say I'm very impressed. I thought Virtual Machines weren't recognized (cf. my previous post) but it was only a matter of deactivating an option in the preferences. I therefore correct my evaluation: this app rocks by all means and it undoubtedly deserves 5 stars. Also the developper's response is terrific.

No Virtual Machines recognition? - Version: 5.5, 1/29/2009 05:23AM PST