CDFinder
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CDFinder is an application for Apple
Apple Computer
Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

's Mac OS X
Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

 developed by Norbert M. Doerner since 1995.

The software is a digital asset management
Digital asset management
Digital asset management consists of management tasks and decisions surrounding the ingestion, annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval and distribution of digital assets...

 utility, which offers a wide variety of music, photo, video, and other meta data, including thumbnails and XMP (Adobes Extensible Metadata Platform
Extensible Metadata Platform
The Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform is a standard, created by Adobe Systems Inc., for processing and storing standardized and proprietary information relating to the contents of a file....

), that is being read while cataloging
Cataloging
Cataloging is the process of listing or include something in a catalog. In library science is is the producing of bibliographical descriptions of books or other kinds of documents...

 a disk or data folder, and has many workflow integrations, such as with Roxio Toast
Roxio Toast
Roxio Toast is an Optical disc authoring and media conversion software application for Mac OS X. Its name is a play on the word burn, a term used for the writing of information onto a disc through the use of a laser....

, FileMaker
FileMaker
FileMaker Pro is a cross-platform relational database application from FileMaker Inc., formerly Claris, a subsidiary of Apple Inc. It integrates a database engine with a GUI-based interface, allowing users to modify the database by dragging new elements into layouts, screens, or forms...

, or Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge is an organizational software application created and released by Adobe Systems as a part of the Adobe Creative Suite, beginning with CS2. Its primary purpose is to link the parts of the Creative Suite together using an interface similar to the file browser found in previous versions...

.

CDFinder also supports cataloging of geotagged photos, a geo search, and can add GPS tags to photos.

CDFinder is available as demoware, which lets you to catalog 25 disks, but use all other features as long as you want.

There is also a version available for Windows, called CDWinder
CDWinder
CDWinder is an application for Microsoft Windows developed by Andreas H. Becherer since 2000.The software is a digital asset management utility, which offers a wide variety of meta data that is being read while cataloging a disk or data folder...

, using the same catalog data format and offering the same functionality.
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