P.S. my collection peaked at ~4,300 LPs.
Here is a photo of my LP collection dividers...
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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I have also started using the Discogs "Collection" feature to catalog my modest collection. The most time-consuming aspect is identifying the correct pressing from the "deadwax" markings. The Discogs feature allows you to write in your own comments about each record, which is quite useful. Using this feature will assist if you or your heirs ever want to sell any of your records. Physically, I have an idiosyncratic way of organizing my LPs. They are more or less organized by genre, year of initial release and country of origin. One of the advantages of this is that if I pick a late '60s British-rock album to play, there are similar albums nearby that might constitute a good choice for the next to be played. You don't get this by simply alphabetizing the collection. I suppose one could use Discogs to achieve what my physical organization allows, but I wouldn't want to have to pull out my laptop every time I want to play a record. I have an extraordinarily good memory, so that probably helps in using my physical-organization system. I remember what year many of my albums were released. If that is unimportant to you, you could certainly try a variation of my system, perhaps just organizing by genre, country and then alphabetically (by artist) within each genre. |
@dsv1 I use discogs and it’s excellent. Easy to use. Either scan the bar code or type in the LP catalog numbers. |
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