About the guy who created  this 🙂

Composer Catalog was born from a basic necessity. Being a busy music composer for film/TV, my music library was constantly growing. I first started to keep track of my catalog with a spreadsheet, and I found out pretty quickly that I was going to need something a little more advanced. For example, a publisher would e-mail and say, “I need a whimsical track that sounds like (insert band here) and features glockenspiel. We can offer an exclusive deal, so the track cannot be signed to any other publishers. It must be at least two minutes. Do you have anything?”

After a while, it was painfully obvious that scrolling through a spreadsheet was not the best method or the most reliable. I put the plan in motion to utilize my programming experience and create something specifically targeted towards music composers and their libraries.

Composer Catalog was born.

I first released a desktop version. Users were happy with it, but always wanted the ability to have it on different computers (say they were traveling with a laptop and Composer Catalog was installed on their desktop at home). It does not really work for them. As the years went by, I found myself spending more time with trying to upgrade the program to work on the current Mac OS and less time trying to add the improvements that I wanted to implement.

So moving to an online system will allow me to free the shackles of a Mac/PC and all the OS changes. It will also allow me to add more and more improvements to the program, which I am REALLY excited for.

Composer Catalog allows you to take control of your music library by using specific metadata that is geared towards what a composer needs, not just the generic “genre, bpm, author” fields you find in general audio media libraries. With this specifically targeted metadata in place, you will quickly be able to get the information you need. You can also upload any music files or documents and attach them to any track you have in Composer Catalog (this part was pretty important for phase two of this online program). If you have more than one mix, link all the mixes and designate one as the main mix.

You will soon see that the next wave of updates will be coming soon. Stay tuned!