(C) 2003 Big 3 Software,
 Gebr. Schmitz GbR.
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CD-archive

Click here to move to our CD-Archive server und search for CDs or tracks.

Big 3 Software has founded the CD-archive project 1999. It was our main goal to create an extensive CD-archive with a very high quality. This is achieved by many Hitbase users, who provide their CD-catalog (or only seperate CDs) and transfer it to our CD-archive. This helps to save other Hitbase users from entering their CD data manually when a new unknown CD is inserted.

We kindly ask you to transfer your CD-catalog to the CD-archive. With Hitbase 2001 (or higher) this is very easy and takes only a few steps:

  1. Make sure you have choosen the CD-archive "Hitbase (Internet)" and the option Transfer new CDs to this archive is activated. Use "www.cdarchiv.de" as the source.
  2. Open your catalog.
  3. Choose the command "Transfer catalog to CD-archive" in the "File" menu.
  4. The CDs will be transfered to our server now. Please note that no personal information will be transmitted to Big 3 Software. Merely the pure CD data (such as artist, title, track name, etc.) will be saved in the CD archive.
    Note: While transfering the CDs, Hitbase checks the data for plausibility. This should prevent the database from incomplete or wrong entered CDs. That's why it could happen, that not every CD will be transfered.

 

Just a short note to the data collection:

To make sure that the CD archive has a homogeneous form and structure, it is necessary to follow special rules when entering your CD data. Of course this is not always possible to manage but we kindly ask you to keep the following rules in mind.

To help make our job easier, we would ask you to observe the following points:

  1. Enter the surname of the artist before the christian name. For example. "Adams, Bryan". The article should also be placed after the name as in "Beatles, The".
  2. Restrict the number of categories that you use (i.e. no sub-categories like "Rock, 60's"). Click here for a list of recommended categories.
  3. Enter only universally useful information in the comment-field. Entries such as "lent to Peter" won't be much use to other users.
  4. Make use of upper- & lower-case. Although many CD's only have the title in upper-case, try to use case sensibly (e.g. names in upper-case).
  5. Only CD's with a so-called "CD-identity" will be included in the CD-archive. This field is filled automatically by all versions since Hitline95 once a catalogued CD is loaded into the drive.

Although there is no compulsion to follow these guidelines you will help to minimize our work if you do comply. Thanks!

If you don't have an internet connection and still want to make your catalog available, you can send it to:

Big 3 Software
Gebr. Schmitz GbR
Bunsenweg 6
50354 Hürth
Germany

We would like to thank all correspondents in advance!