Thank you all, and thanks Charlie and Tcadien for the suggestion.
I'm not familiar (to say the least) with all those i-something; but, from your explanations I think I should give it a try. As I understand it, you never have to type anything, right? Once a CD is in the file, and if I am connected to Internet, the name of the artist and the list of songs will appear automatically.

DP, I certainly don't intend to get rid of my CD's and albums. I do beware of my abilities with computers. In fact, I'd be even happier if I could print out that list.

Christian

Yes, Christian...I have not had any problems with i-tunes. I say give it a shot!

Nothing serious, Antoine. Just a well-ordered existence.

iTunes is ok for managing music, especially if you already own an i-device, but if you want something more powerful for managing and sorting music, try MediaMonkey (not an endorsement, I just like music...and it's free).

It does batch editing easily...have 30, 50, 1000 cajun albums in which the genre is listed as folk? Select them all with a minimum amount of clicking, type 'cajun', done.

It handles multiple-genres. For example, in the genre field I might tag louisiana music as:

'louisiana; cajun; accordion; dance hall',
'louisiana; swamp pop; soul',
'louisiana; zydeco; accordion; triple row', 'louisiana; new orleans; brass band; soul',

and I can then search and sort for any of these tags separately or together.

'louisiana' brings them all up,
'accordion' brings up 'cajun' and 'zydeco',
'soul' brings up 'new orleans' and 'swamp pop', etc.

(Itunes treats multiple entry fields as one string--'louisiana; cajun; accordion; dance hall' shows up just like that, one long genre vs. four genres in MM).

MediaMonkey also has lyrics and comment support, in which lyrics and or comments can be searched for and added to mp3 files for viewing on players. In addition, it does a lot more...searches for and adds album art, creates reports (excel, word, html etc), provides statistics (# of tracks, artists, genres, etc), checks and corrects case, tags from filename, and more, and it handles laaaarge libraries without a problem--I have over 2oo,ooo mp3s and MM runs smoothly.

Many interesting features. I'm going to try this one too. Thanks.

Yes, it's great for creating reports/lists in excel, word, html etc of the tracks, with metadata, you already have. It beats having to type everything in manually.

I have downloaded it.
When I first opened it, it automatically made a list of all the music scattered in different files on the PC. Great!
I have not yet explored all the possibilities of this application, but it seems pretty easy to use. I am feeding the animal for now.
Merci encore.

Yes, I have everything in Excel.
Cd's with all the songnames, so I can search easy for versions from certain songs.
Also all the downloads from neal I put in an Excel sheet.
It's some work on the PC, but it's very easy for me.