Another discogs user here. I take it with me when I shop so I don;t buy what I already have and I share my collection with family and friends who might give me something... It is free and a great tool.
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 I use discogs and it’s excellent. Easy to use. Either scan the bar code or type in the LP catalog numbers. |
Here is another vote for CLZ. There is no entering of endless details. On newer records entry is done by scanning a barcode. On older records all you have to do is type in the album’s catalog number. If neither of these options works you can enter everything manually. |
Discogs with about 1800 records. Invaluable when looking for records out of town/abroad, and checking it through the phone app. Works reasonably well, with a few known problems e.g. with Molchat Doma which is entered in Cyrillic letters in discogs (Молчат Дома) so is really hard to fine on app with roman letters. Re barcode and catalog numbers, there are many records that have multiple version with same catalog number or barcode. This is where discogs shines. You can also search by barcode number and it will provide list of all the versions under same number. |
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