There seems to be an export to CSV option (at least according to Google). If
that’s true would it not be simpler to export and re-import into something you
are familiar with?
Regards
Marco van Beek
Supporting Role Ltd
> On 24 Sep 2024, at 12:38, Henrik Morsing via GLLUG <gllug@mailman.lug.org.uk>
> wrote:
>
>
> Good afternoon,
>
> I have used Collectorz software for cataloguing, but they are moving away
> from their totally awesome thick client to a crappy web-based thing, so I
> started writing my own replacement in Python.
>
> Problem is that populating the Collectorz catalogue has taken years, so I was
> hoping I could read or convert its database file, however, it appears to be
> in a totally unknown format.
>
> Both Google and ChatGPT suggests the same, but it surprises me a bit as it is
> just a tiny company. I think they are now twenty people, but the software was
> started by just two of them. Would they really have invented their own
> database format? They could have just encrypted it, if they didn't want it
> read.
>
> Here's the top of it:
>
> $ hexdump -C Backup_20240915.muc | head -n 20
> 00000000 06 0e 43 6f 6c 6c 65 63 74 6f 72 7a 2e 63 6f 6d |..Collectorz.com|
> 00000010 06 05 4d 75 73 69 63 03 4a 01 03 5e 08 02 01 04 |..Music.J..^....|
> 00000020 a3 86 01 00 02 26 7b 00 35 00 37 00 44 00 45 00 |.....&{.5.7.D.E.|
> 00000030 45 00 34 00 41 00 34 00 2d 00 31 00 38 00 41 00 |E.4.A.4.-.1.8.A.|
> 00000040 30 00 2d 00 34 00 36 00 45 00 32 00 2d 00 42 00 |0.-.4.6.E.2.-.B.|
> 00000050 34 00 31 00 46 00 2d 00 34 00 45 00 30 00 41 00 |4.1.F.-.4.E.0.A.|
> 00000060 30 00 30 00 46 00 39 00 34 00 42 00 32 00 34 00 |0.0.F.9.4.B.2.4.|
> 00000070 7d 00 03 6f 02 04 3c 6e 05 00 02 03 01 00 01 02 |}..o..<n........|
> 00000080 00 02 00 02 0c 64 00 61 00 74 00 61 00 62 00 61 |.....d.a.t.a.b.a|
> 00000090 00 73 00 65 00 2e 00 6d 00 75 00 63 00 02 08 43 |.s.e...m.u.c...C|
> 000000a0 00 4c 00 5a 00 2d 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 30 00 00 |.L.Z.-.0.0.0.0..|
> 000000b0 02 00 01 00 01 00 01 03 e8 00 02 00 02 00 02 00 |................|
>
> database.muc in the dump is just the filename before I backed it up, and CLZ
> is the name of the software.
> Any ideas on how to read this, if at all possible?
>
> Regards,
> Henrik Morsing
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