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baldo:
Being an older user, I remember looking at my LP or CD shelf and just picking a LP/CD to play that I had not played in ages.

While I love the convenience of MC and having everything on a Hard drive, I would like to recreate the expereince of just browsing through my collection.

So how can I print out my entire library of tracks and Albums with the album art, maybe into something like a catalogue format.

I was thinking of creating a series of playlist and then perhaps modifying the view characteristics but that's just a  guess. I need some way to do this in bulk since I have about 20,000 or so tracks/albums in my library. So doing it manually is not really an option.

I really have no idea on how to tackle this issue so I would welcome any thoughts.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Moe:
MCUtils has a script called MakeCatalog that I believe will do exactly what you're looking for. 

If you have a hard time getting things up and running the creator of the script (MrC) email be found in the docs.

baldo:
thanks for this.

I am not a coder so is there and instruction manual that I can read or watch that can walk me through what I need to do so that I can create my custom catalogue.

Moe:
There is a manual at the download location. If you need any assistance contact MrC, he will get you up and running he's very helpful and friendly as well.

HPBEME:
Have you tried using MC's built-in Cover View?  You can find it in the view menu, or just press CTRL+5 to launch it. 

This is my absolute favorite way of browsing my collection of artists/albums - when I come across cover art that stirs my soul, I just hit play.  While not exactly like flipping through albums on a shelf back in the day, it is at least similar, and in-arguably easier... just scroll your mouse wheel! 

The key is to adjust the picture slider to substantially increase the cover art size.  I've spent way more hours than I care to admit collecting high-resolution album covers and artist images for just this purpose… to display my high-res "art" (an accurate description for many album covers and artist portraits) that fully fills up my 65 inch display. I find it extremely gratifying.  The attached pictures show artist pictures and album covers at different size levels. 

I am guessing you still prefer to print out the images so you can "physically hold" hold them in your hands (and I get that), but perhaps others reading this might appreciate the MC cover view approach.

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