I now use a product called Datacatch Librarian. It does what their marketing says; it catalogs or indexes your removable media and extends the Windows file management system so that you are seamlessly searching for files stored on removable media within Windows.

So you search for online and offline content in the same standard Windows search; you even browse the thumbnails of photos stored on your DVD?s. You manage the physical media in exactly the same way your put a Word document in a newly created folder, you locate your discs in a storage container icon on your desktop AND it tells you what slot their in.

I can even check what's on my five flash drives without having to insert them!

The best bit is because it looks and feels like Windows there?s nothing new to learn, it just the same as searching and organizing folders in Windows, very cool and worth a look.