software for vinyl collecting ....

[Jim Pittsburgh]

wondering what software you guys are using to keep track of your vinyl collections? I'd love to find something that has a look up feature or a way to scan them in, instead of building a spread sheet and entering all 900+ titles and numbers...

Appreciate your thoughts.

Jim

[Sir Thrift-a-Lot]

I've been meaning to set up a Discogs account forever.   

[Bunni]

wondering what software you guys are using to keep track of your vinyl collections? I'd love to find something that has a look up feature or a way to scan them in, instead of building a spread sheet and entering all 900+ titles and numbers...

Appreciate your thoughts.

Jim

That's pretty much what Anders and I are doing with about 5k Lps.  Only 900 huh? 

[EmperorNorton]

Having sold half my collection to Jerry's more than ten years ago, I think,  I still just use my memory for the seven or eight hundred I probably still have.   I try to keep them sorted alphabetically by category.  I use three categories   jazz; blues/old-timey ; other  (included rock & roll, pop, classical.  I manage to find what I look for.   

[Jim Pittsburgh]

small collection, but enough for me, and over a 1000 if you count those in the garage. And I'm planning on purging those over the winter... (will let you all know). I want something for the insurance company as much as my own use.... and although now retired, I have no interest in entering 900 titles and numbers into a spread sheet type program, but may be faced with just that prospect.

[Jim Pittsburgh]

small collection, but enough for me, and over a 1000 if you count those in the garage. And I'm planning on purging those over the winter... (will let you all know). I want something for the insurance company as much as my own use.... and although now retired, I have no interest in entering 900 titles and numbers into a spread sheet type program, but may be faced with just that prospect.

[EmperorNorton]

Yes,  it probably would be good to have an inventory.  Maybe a task for the wintertime. 

[scorpio333]

Not entirely sure how many I have here, 600-700? I started putting them on Discogs last winter. I had to build a bigger storage unit and alphabetize. Last week I finally got through all the A's. It's a pain. I usually enter the catalog number in the search box, like SD-1402, 90% of the time it populates the right title below. Sometimes it's obvious which copy you have, other times you got to read the matrix runout. That's if you care to get the exact release/press. I could see that not being important to some.

I believe there is a smart phone app for scanning barcodes into discogs. Never tried it because lots of my albums are older than barcodes. Usually anything before 79 didn't have one, though UPC's existed back to 74.

My wife is always requesting a list she can pick from. She's also a spreadsheet nazi. I haven't tried yet, but discogs goes you the option to export to CSV. She can get all nerdy with that.

[Bunni]

The spreadsheet thing is painfully slow, but we made our own, and can include the info that's important to us.  It's expandable too, of course.  I think we have many many records with nothing to scan, so that feature really doesn't matter much.  I imagine though, one could create such a system and print labels, but then it's just double the work.  I thought of also including some jacket pics.

We too need an inventory, and I know Anders has some doubles of things he wants to find a home for.

We need to do the same thing for the radios and audio equipment. 

[MacGeek]

My LPs and CDs are in my own somewhat organized alpha order.  I sometimes end up thumbing through things to find what I want, but in the process come across things I forgot about-this makes for pleasant surprises.

[Sir Thrift-a-Lot]

Sometimes I buy things I already have, makes for unpleasant surprises.

[Anders]

Yeah I've done that.

[schwarcw]

Discogs is the way to go.  Type in the artist name.  You will see from 1 to many "hits" come up.  Click on the one you have and add it to your collection.  Do 20 or so each night and it should not be too overwhelming unless you have as many records as Anders.

[Bunni]

I finally got Anders to look at Discogs last night, and we're gonna give it a whirl.

[Anders]

Yeah it is a bit overwhelming.
I usually start putting them in and then give up.