tag+: I join the necessity & feel the pain of nightcraw1er.488.
It is really hard to keep digital stuff organized, which if we think about for a second, is a total nonsense...

My vgames list is several orders of magnitude smaller but is growing & growing and getting out of control... (entropy)

Sometimes I've been thinking the route ChuckBeaver suggests, but the collector spirit always win.
What are we supposed to do in this digital golden era?
Limit our collections to the digits of our 2 hands to have them in control? ...Really?

That said, I have digital music, books, movies, dvds, cds, vgames, software as much organized as an individual can alone...
And yeah, enjoyment gets tarnished frequently by the showstoppers.
As example, I haven't listened my music because I perfectly know about tags missing, half baked, chopped (classical music is a real pain to tag), an infamous Nero mp3 codec ripper with terrible quality under some circumstances meaning I will need to re-rip those CDs after investigating the trustable utility used nowadays...
Automated taggers? Sure, after years needing them those finally exist and they now are able to identify any song you throw at them... but... are not perfect: I still find songs/discs without tags (What are the odds?!), or the quality control to the data itself most of the times is not the best.
Man! I will not rant to those free and open solutions (honor to those building and sharing solutions)
But in my opinion: There is still a lot of work to do, and much, much more to validate to have quality solutions

nightcraw1er.488: Right, so final decision made. After looking at the options…I am going to stick with excel! Why:
Collectorz: pros, it is quite customisable, including export to csv, but it’s quite clunky after using playnite. It’s also paid yearly.

Playnite: pros, fluid fast ui and download of metadata. However the most important part is no real export to csv option. I don’t know if people just don’t care about their data, but there it is. There is a html exporter which is nice, but not really usable, and a simple csv exporter which only does a couple of fields. The backend litedb is a mystery, can’t see why they chose that over something like SQLite.

Launchbox, not changed since previous post, it’s more of a launcher than organiser.

And that’s really it in terms of windows front ends. All have some pluses, but also some major negatives. Excel is simple, extendable, and (surprising for M$) the most externally compatible being able to save to csv.