Rooter

Rooter is an open source PHP/MySQL application, which, as the title suggests, will help those interested in organizing their CD/LP/DVD collection.

Instead of keeping flat files of music on a local hard drive, one will store and edit the data in an online database through HTML forms and PHP function calls.

Presumably, this has the following advantages:
- Your data is accessible from anywhere.
- You can add new albums, etc., where ever you are - you don't have to be in front of your computer.
- It's a nice way to organize thoughts/notes/descriptions on a particular album. The ability to rate albums is included.
- Your friends and family can view your collection and request to borrow items (this may not be an advantage).
- You can associate and display artwork for an album.
- Most professional web servers that would host Rooter are backed-up far more frequently than the average personal computer.
Rooter has a minimalist design (the focus should be on the music, not Rooter) and uses CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) to partition the overall look from the data.

Without much experience, people can modify the default CSS to reflect their site's unique design and personality.