32 Months of hard work

179 Exciting New Features

1 New Name


Introducing NeoFinder

After 16 years, we really had to drop the "CD" in the name of CDFinder, even though we really grew fond of it.

But since everything is new in that cool version 6.0, we went for the new name NeoFinder!

NeoFinder is fully rewritten in Cocoa, has a beautiful new interface, and a LOT to offer.

Some of the new and amazing features include:

• New Icon
• Everything in one window, but you can of course view catalogs, folders, or albums in separate windows for much better workflow as well
• New Column mode, to complete Icon and List mode
• Fully integrated Inspector
• Fully integrated map with GeoFinder
• New Wikipedia Inspector for items with GPS geotags
• Super-fast multi-core Find engine
• Smart Folders
• New powerful Find Editor has more options
• Albums, to keep interesting items together
• Better Browser-like navigation
• Massively improved Audio-CD cataloging: Reads ISRC, MCN, and CD-TEXT from the disk, uses MusicBrainz for track titles
• New Importers for Canto Cumulus and MediaDex CRE files, for WhereIsIt for Windows XML files, DiskCatalogMaker Export files, and Tolis BRU Tape Backup report files
• Importer for iView MediaPro and Expression Media XML files now integrated
• NeoFinder now catalogs, displays, and searches OpenMeta keywords!
• AutoUpdater: Update your catalogs with a time schedule (requires business License)
• Faster cataloging of photos

And a LOT more!

We can offer you this amazing new update for a very low price, and all customers who have purchased their CDFinder after January 1, 2011, will even get this update for free!

NeoFinder is available today! Download the demo or buy a license or an update now.

The brand new CDFinder 5.7.3 will now work fine in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, and fix a few small bugs.

Due to code changes that Apple has made in Lion, this new version is required if you wish to run CDFinder in Mac OS X 10.7.

Everything new in CDFinder 5.7.3:
- CDFinder now works fine in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Adds a link to the CDinder Facebook page in the Help menu
- Adds several new text macros for the Cover Print feature, please contact us if you want details
- Fixes a possible crash when cataloging certain malformed TIFF files containing XMP data
- Fixes a possible crash when cataloging certain Windows URL files

This is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users and required to run on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
For users of CDFinder 4.x and earlier, we offer the update for a small update fee.

The new CDFinder 5.7.2 now catalogs Adobe InDesign CS5 and 5.5, and has lots of other improvements, too!

We are very happy to release this amazing update. It fixes all the little things that crept up during the past year, and even adds valuable new features.

And yes, something very big is coming later, too!

Everything new in CDFinder 5.7.2:
• CDFinder now catalogs thumbnails of Adobe InDesign CS5 and 5.5 documents, too
• The Eject menu now also includes externally connected Thunderbolt, USB, and FireWire drives, and also the icon of each volume
• Added RAW cataloging support for ".erf" (Espon), ".3fr" (Hasselblad) and ".mef" (Mamiya) photos in Mac OS X 10.6
• CDFinder now creates thumbnails of JPG-2000 photos, too (name suffix .jp2)
• Improved Find speed when getting more than 5000 hits
• You can now get the thumbnail of a Found Item with AppleScript
• FileCheck values are now exported as well
• Cataloging of QuickTime movie files with external references won't create error messages anymore
• Catalogs created by Roxio Toast now get a proper serial number as all other catalogs
• Exporting now ensures that IPTC tags won't add stray Returns to the text file
• Finally fixes the long standing error -43 when deleting catalogs from a database folder on certain file servers
• Fixes a problem reading the ID3 tags of certain MP3 file
• Fixes a problem cataloging certain NTFS disks
• Fixes a problem of properly sorting catalog names in the list views
• Fixes a problem cataloging certain TIFF files
• The DiskLibrary Importer can now be used from the Import selector window, too. Previously, only dragging the database file into CDFinder worked

This is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users.
For users of CDFinder 4.x and earlier, we offer the update for a small update fee.

'twas 15 years ago today!

On a rather cold evening on December 10, 1995, chief developer Norbert M. Doerner wrote the first lines of code for a brand new Macintosh software called CDFinder.

Little did he know that this new pet project of his would turn out to be a highly successful product that would still be actively developed 15 years later.

For those technically interested, the first CDFinder code module was a progress window that showed the progress bar in color, which had to be manually drawn in 1995, because System 7.1 in that day only had a boring back and white progress bar. Yeah, those were the days.

The first version was released in April 1996, and only in Germany. The first english version was 1.1 released in May 1996.

We will definitely celebrate this amazing feat with a nice glass of Champagne tonight.

Thank you very much to all these 49,000 people who have purchased a CDFinder license in the past 15 years, and who helped us make CDFinder such a cool product!

If you are interested in geotagging, and you ask yourself if that is simply placing photos on a map, you may wish to hear the speech of CDFinder developer Doerner at the biannual photokina expo in Cologne, Germany.


This free speech is hosted by the high tech forum SPECTARIS, and will take place on September 22, 2010, at 1:30 P.M.


Together with Sebastian Hofer from http://www.gps-camera.eu you will be able to have a first look at the exciting new GPS features of CDFinder 6!

Flyer (PDF, German, 156 KB)




We would love to meet you at photokina 2010!

The new CDFinder 5.7.1 now catalogs geotags in iPhone moves, and imports native DiskLibrary databases!


CDFinder 5.7.1 has these new features and fixes:

• CDFinder can catalog the GPS tags in .MOV video files created by the Apple iPhone! That gives you the same geotag related features as with photos, such as starting a geosearch, or showing the point in Google Earth or on the built-in map
• CDFinder has a new Importer for native Disk Library databases! CDFinder will gather thumbnails, and the metadata out of these catalogs. We also offer a very affordable cross-grade for all users who want to switch from Disk Library to CDFinder
• CDFinder can now search for photos with no GPS tags
• After updating a cataloged folder, CDFinder now stores the new folder size properly in the catalog
• New Cover Print template "Envelope", thanks to William Haney!
• Improved Spotlight search for "any text" to include file contents

Everything that is new in CDFinder 5.7.1 is listed here.

This is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users.
For users of CDFinder 4.x and earlier, we offer the update for a small update fee.

See Development Happen!

Now you can follow the CDFinder development team on Facebook and Twitter!

On Twitter, you will find fresh and up-to-date comments about Apple development and related stuff, even some personal remarks of the chief CDFinder developer, Norbert M. Doerner.

On Facebook, find longer, and more in-depth stuff regarding CDFinder and related topics.

Of course, we appreciate your feedback in both social networks!

CDFinder on Twitter:

CDFinder on Facebook:

The new CDFinder 5.7 now catalogs better than ever, and has built-in geotagging!

Watch a video covering all the cool new features.

CDFinder 5.7 has these new features:

• Cataloging Thumbnails of Adobe InDesign, Microsoft PowerPoint, Quark XPress, Apple Keynote and Pages files
• Cataloging FLAC song files (Free Lossless Audio Codec) and ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) song files, including all metadata, lyrics, and even cover art
• Cataloging of movie files is much more robust, adds ".3gp", and creates better thumbnails in many cases
• Thumbnails of Adobe Illustrator files are created even if the file is not "PDF compatible"
• Cataloging previews of text files! The first 256 characters of Microsoft Word documents(.doc and .docx), RTF (Rich Text Format), TXT, “.textClipping”, and NFO files are read, saved, displayed, and of course searched
• Geotagging directly with CDFinder! Use either the current position of Google Earth, or the location in CDFinders own GeoFinder, and write that GPS coordinate into your photos
• A new Automator action allows you to catalog or update and disk or folder automatically, or even time scheduled with the iCal calendar!
• New Japanese translation by Dr. Wilhelm. Domo Arigato!
• Export photos directly within CDFinder! Select a couple of photos in CDFinder, use the "Export Photos to..." context menu, choose the format and size, done
• Updating of very large catalogs (with more than 1 million files) is more than twice as fast, and more so on slow machines
• QuickLook for any online files will now work in Snow Leopard (10.6) as well as in Leopard (10.5). Just hit the space bar for any selected item in a CDFinder catalog. If the original item is online, CDFinder will open the QuickLook window for you

Everything that is new in CDFinder 5.7 is listed here.

This is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users.

Green IT and the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen

Next week, politicians from all over the world meet together to talk. And talk. And talk. And talk even more.

The CDFinder team is sick of talking, and started taking action.

Here is what we did so far:

- We switched our electric utility from a huge, coal burning supplier to a small and completely green one, only using solar, wind, and other efficient, and renewable energies. http://www.ews-schoenau.de/

Read more about this...

New version 2.0 of the MP3-Info runs in Snow Leopard

MP3-Info is a free iTunes and Finder companion designed for Mac OS X (version 10.5 or 10.6, PowerPC- & Intel-Mac)

It displays information about audio files, such as their duration, the bitrate, and also some important MP3-Tags, such as the artist, the title of the song, lyrics, cover art, and some more, all directly with the Finder or iTunes! That can save you a lot of time when have to manage songs often. It also shows these information for AAC files created by iTunes, and WAV, and AIFF files.

And best of all: It is free!

So download and enjoy this amazing tool today!

What is new in MP3-Info 2.0?

• MP3-Info is now an application, because Apple has killed the Context Menu Modules in Snow Leopard, most unfortunately!
• MP3-Info now follows either your Finder selection, or the current iTunes song, or the iTunes selection. This makes MP3-Info an amazing iTunes companion!
• Lyrics are being displayed in a separate and optional window. That way you can finally see the lyrics of the current song in iTunes while it is playing, without messing with the iTunes controls!
• Cover Art is being displayed, if it is contained in the actual song file
• Integration into Twitter.com allows you to tell the world what song you are currently listening to (uses a web browser)
• Three different tag editing apps can be connected: ID3X, The Tagger, and Media Rage
• Find similar songs in your CDFinder library with one easy click

More info about MP3-Info here

Apple kills CMMs, GPS-Info returns!

The recently released Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) adds cool new stuff, but not for the first time, Apple has also killed features. This time, the Contextual Menu Modules (CMM) were axed. So no really flexible context menus in the shiny new Cocoa Finder of Snow Leopard. Sigh. That was also the death of GPS-Info CMM.

But we didn't give up!

If GPS-Info can't run as a CMM in Snow Leopard, it will now be a compact and superfast utility application. And offer even better integration and features.



So download and enjoy GPS-Info 2.0!

More info about GPS-Info here

CDFinder 5.6.1 of course runs fine in Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)!

Now that Apple has release the new version of its operating system, we can tell you that CDFinder 5.6.1 runs fine in Snow Leopard!

There are tow small issues, though:
1. Since the QuickLook API has been changed in Snow Leopard, CDFinder 5.6.1 cannot display the QuickLook window for files currently online. We are working on a fix for that.
2. Since Apple has removed the contextual menu modules from Snow Leopard, the "CDFinder CMM" won't work in the new Finder. The CDFinder team was very disappointed by this loss of features in Snow Leopard, and we are working to find a solution. If you also think this is a problem, please make sure to tell Apple about this!

The very good news is that Apple has improved stability of the CoreImage framework that CDFinder uses to get photo metadata and thumbnails in Snow Leopard, so this will improve overall stability of CDFinder as well.

The new CDFinder 5.6.1 now catalogs EyeTV recordings, and has a beautiful street level map for the GPS search!


Watch a video covering the cool new features:


We are very excited about this new version. Not only does it fix some annoying bugs, CDFinder 5.6.1 also offers two really hot new features:

• CDFinder now catalogs Elgato EyeTV recordings (.eyetv). CDFinder will show the thumbnail for the recording, and also important metadata as well, such as the EPG description, director, actors, and much more. All that is cataloged, displayed, and can of course be searched as well
• The GeoFinder inside CDFinder now uses the street-level OpenStreetMap for the GPS search (requires 10.5 or newer)! That is much nicer than the built-in map, but since it requires Internet access, the old map is still available. Many thanks to Dirk Stichling!
• New CoverPrint templates: one for US-Letter format Avery 5692 labels, and one more for the HP Photosmart Direct Print. Thanks a lot to Deneen Winchester-Ristow and David Robinson for their incredible help on this!
• Double clicking a found item coming from iPhoto will now show this item in iPhoto. There is also a contextual menu command for this, too. You can get iPhoto results by using the GeoFinder, and asking it to search the iPhoto 8 database, too

All new features are listed here.

And best of all, it is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users, so go ahead and download it now!

We are very pleased to announce that CDFinder will be demoed during the upcoming June meeting of the Macintosh Asheville Computer Society M.A.C.S. So if you are nearby, make sure to attend this meeting!!



Additionally, the wonderful people at M.A.C.S. have updated their previous review of CDFinder to cover the latest version 5.6. Read the entire review. CDFinder gets the full 5-Clicks rating: "CDFinder is a well-written, self-contained program which does its job very well." The entire CDFinder team is really proud to hear that, and we appreciate this very much!!!

We are happy to declare the new CDFinder 5.6 released!


This update contains a lot of new features, including:

• Catalog thumbnails of video files - and not simply the first frame, but a frame from about 20% of the duration of the movie
• Expanded geotagging support, including the ability to search the iPhoto 8 database from within the GeoFinder window of CDFinder, and a blazing fast parallel upload of multiple photos to the Locr.com geophoto community
• Cataloging has become more robust, and now includes the contents of ISO disk images, thumbnails of graphic files without proper name suffix, contents of RAR archive files larger than 4 GB, and now also the cover art of AAC files, and podcast textual information

All new features are listed here.

And best of all, it is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users, so go ahead and download it now!

The popular video production blog SuiteTake.com has just published a long article about archiving large amounts of video data created in any video production.
(NAB Preivew: Cache-A LTO-4 Archive Drive for Video Pros)

They are suggesting to use CDFinder:
"As each tape is filled, we mount it on the desktop of the computer and use a program called CDFinder to create a catalog file of all contents of the tape. This usually only takes a few minutes per tape. Once complete, the tape is in the CDFinder database and can be searched from any computer in the office without the tape being loaded. Once we find what we’re looking for, we load the appropriate tape and retrieve the files. It has turned out to be a great system."

We are very happy about this interesting article that shows how CDFinder can be used in video production, and we are even more thrilled, because generating video thumbnails for CDFinder catalogs is a very cool new upcoming feature, and it seems we have hit a nerve with hat already...

After the highly successful Locr for iPhoto plug-in, the CDFinder development team did it again: A plug-in for Apples Aperture to upload your photos directly to the Locr community. This tool sends along geotags, keywords, and descriptions, and can place the new photos in an album on Locr as well.

Find out more about this cool new plug-in here.

The new coup of the CDFinder development team: A plug-in for iPhoto to upload your photos directly to the Locr community. This tool even sends along geotags, keywords, and descriptions, and it is even able to get the Place you may have set in iPhoto 8!

Find out more about this cool new plug-in here.

The CDFinder team is proud to present you the new CDFinder 5.5.

A massive update with lots of new features, including:

• Support for movie files
• Much faster cataloging
• GeoFinder to search for photos near a place, and KMZ Export
• XMP Support for Integration with Adobe Bridge, Photoshop, and all other Adobe products
• Many more cool new features and fixes

A complete list of all new features and fixes can be found here.

And best of all, it is a free update to existing CDFinder 5.x users, so go ahead and download it now!

The current issue January 2009 of the popular MacTech magazine contains a large article about GPS, geotagging, and the Macintosh.

Written by CDFinder developer Norbert M. Doerner, the article covers the addition of GPS data to digital photos, all the software and hardware needed, and how that additional information can be used by CDFinder to finally organize your ever increasing photo collection.

If you are further interested in this topic, the CDFinder web site already contains additional useful information (here).

Norbert M. Doerner showed CDFinder features to Mac User Groups in Arizona

On Wednesday, November 19, 2008, CDFinder chief developer Norbert M. Doerner has presented the current version of CDFinder, as well as an exclusive preview of CDFinder 5.5 to the members and visitors of the Tucson Macintosh User Group (TMUG) in Tucson, Arizona. http://tmug.com



The next day, November 20, 2008, Doerner also gave a speech to the Arizona Macintosh User Group (AMUG) in Phoenix, Arizona. http://www.amug.org

It has been a great pleasure to hold these presentations! Both sessions were received very warmly by the audience, and a lot of interesting questions came up and were answered swiftly.

(If you are also running a Macintosh User Group, we can arrange a presentation at your group as well, or provide licenses for your raffles. Please contact us.)

The highly regarded popular internet radio station Inside Mac Radio has just released an interview with CDFinder chief developer Norbert M. Doerner.

Inside Mac Radio host Scott Sheppard talks with Doerner about the cool GeoFinder feature in CDFinder, which allows photographers to use GPS coordinates embedded in photos to quickly search for images taken at a specific point. The interview goes on about how CDFinder can help anyone to keep their precious data structured and organized, and how the popular cataloger tool can quickly find any data on any disk you have.

Here is the full interview as free podcast in the iTunes store.

The entire CDFinder team is very proud about this exciting interview!

They just keep coming! Yet another very positive review of CDFinder. This time, it is a podcast of MacBreak Weekly.

Alex Lindsay days: (at about minute 49 in the podcast, more info)

"We have 120 drives or something here... for backups and stuff. We run it through DiskTracker, which is kind of stone-age technology, to keep track of it.... CDFinder just builds a database of every file name that is on that drive, and if you are doing lots and lots of backups, you just scan these drives, and now you can just very quickly find what file is on what drive. We are just starting to use CDFinder, and as soon as I did the first scan, of my internal drive, I was like get rid of DiskTracker. CDFinder is light-years ahead of DiskTracker..."


Listen to the whole podcast review

We are thrilled to receive such a great review again! Thank you!!

And yet another cool review of CDFinder came in. This time, it is from the popular bioneural.net blog.

They write:

"CDFinder is essentially an asset manager that catalogues any file on any volume (CD-ROM, DVD, USB drive, etc). But media metadata are its speciality, and this indexing powerhouse has recently been extended to handle geotags and provide related functionality.

"Free updates since 1996" is nothing short of impressive. I reviewed the change log and that's 54 updates since the first English version was released. Not many companies can boast of such dedication to their existing customer base. The application menu even has a "Send e-mail to author..." option, again indicating a hands-on commitment to customer support (which is free). That kind of approach wins you loyalty."


Read entire review

The feedback from this review is very welcome to the entire team here, and we very much appreciate it!

The popular blog Mac Recon has written a really amazing review of CDFinder 5.1.

They write:

"CDFinder has a very clean, yet attractive, interface that works out perfectly and actually boosts its productivity. Some may even look at it as a streamlined Finder window because of how easy it is to gain access to any file within it.
...
But all the cataloguing would be useless if it didn’t have equally powerful organizing and searching features. Fortunately, it does.
...
CDFinder is extremely powerful. It’s capable of handling millions of files (hard to test in a computer lab environment, though), and everything seems perfect."

Read entire review

Again, the CDFinder team is really happy to receive such positive praise! Thank you!

The popular blog Ogle Earth has written a very positive review of the new GPS features in CDFinder.

They write:

"So what happens when the developer, Germany’s Norbert Doerner, gets bitten by the geotagging bug? Why, he turns CDFinder into a geosearch marvel.
You just know this stuff is eventually going to make it into operating systems by default, it’s just that it will take ages."

Read entire review

The entire CDFinder team is thrilled to be valued so much by such a prestigious blog. Thank you!!

The popular German digital camera web site digitalkamera.de has written a very long and detailed review of CDFinder and CDWinder.

They write:

"CDWinder is a disk cataloging application with a very comfortable and intuitive handling. It has a very fast search feature and many well-thought-of features."

Read entire review (in German...)

We are very happy bout this extensive and positive review!

In its recent issue December 2007, Germany's largest Macintosh magazine, Macwelt, has tested CDFinder 5 and found it to be very good!

The testers especially liked the low price and the very good user interface:
"CDFinder is the magnifying glass for files. It simply works without any trouble, and after a short while you won't ever want to do without it." (Macwelt issue December 2007, page 46)

The CDFinder team is very proud about this prominent praise!

In the current episode 51 of the wildly popular video podcast commandN.tv, producer Jeff MacArthur showcases the cool features of CDFinder. Just download this episode for free and look for yourself!

The Macintosh Asheville Computer Society has written a really nice and detailled review about CDFinder:

Pros: Fairly intuitive and flexible, Mac-like interface; Individual items or entire catalogs can be deleted (without removing the original files from the disk ("DiskTracker", see below, actually deletes the "real" files!); Catalogs can be grouped into one or more folders; Powerful Export function; "Batch Create" for cataloging several CDs, one after the other; When printing, Disclosure Triangles are printed to the left of each folder, which makes them much easier to find in long listings; You can choose whether to catalog "Packages" or not. ("DiskTracker", see below, doesn't allow this.); Convenient separate program included to quick-catalog a disk.

Read entire Review

The cool online magazine "About This Particular Macintosh" has written a really nice and detailled comparison between CDFinder and a simple tool called "Neometric" Catalog:

"CDFinder stores its catalogs more compactly, both on disk and in memory. It is also able to control its memory use (and improve performance) by loading a catalog only when you try to browse or search it. Thus, I can easily search hundreds of large catalogs in CDFinder, any one of which would bring "Neometric" Catalog to its knees."
"I did not encounter any bugs in CDFinder. I’ve been using it for years, and it has never crashed."