Thanks @bluematter appreciate your feedback. I also found my much more modest collection to be a tedious exercise without much in return. Seems like there could be something much more modern and useful for album collection management.
The not lost but hard to find art of vinyl records
Hello fellow goners,
I'm looking for some advice and guidance today. For the last six years or so I've rediscovered the joy of vinyl. Over that time i've added and upgraded an analog branch to my streaming only system. Currently it's based on an origin live deck and arm with a few different cartridges, my favorites are hanna sl and an AT-VM760xSL.
Over this time, I've also managed to acquire a modest collection of records which now fill a few of those ikea shelving units. Now some of you might be thinking aww I remember when I got started. :-) I did say modest. However with just this collection, it's become difficult to account which records or even which pressing or pressings are a part of the collection. Specially and fortunately, when you have friends and family who know about your passion and want to contribute with purchases for special occasions. Or come over and want to hear album X to which I usually respond with browse the shelves and pick out something you wan to hear.
To help with this, I started using a spreadsheet of artist, titles and a few other pieces of information but quickly ran into issues with the native spellchecker and my own horrible spelling mistakes. Leading to some funny and not so funny things in the list.
So I'm wondering for those of you out there with collections of your own, how do you manage it? Does it just reside on a shelf? In your memory (if this is true do you have room for mine too? :-)
Thanks in advance for your suggestions and advice.
david
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@dsv1 - there are apparently imaging apps that work with Discogs, but they won't distinguish different pressings, particularly for pre-bar code products. Since a lot of what I have sought out are particular pressings identifiable by matrices/deadwax, and not catalog number (which can remain the same), not helpful to me. But for general album management, you might research it. |
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@whart thanks will look into it. |
Another vote for Discogs. I started entering my 55+ year collection 2 years ago. I don’t view my collection as an investment or part of my portfolio like many Discogs users, so I don’t care if I enter an album with the wrong pressing location or enter it as VG+ when it’s VG. Once you learn how to enter the catalog number off the spine and select the album, entering becomes a breeze. I started to create a spreadsheet so my heirs would know what was in my collection when my time comes. But when I found Discogs I said, "Why reinvent the wheel??"
I do take the time to enter the condition of each album, mainly because Discogs keeps a running total of what your collection is worth based on their sales data. If I’m unsure of the pressing location, I typically pick the most common entry. That helped me tremendously when increasing the coverage on my Personal Articles insurance policy. |
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