finish cataloging my vinyl

785 Different entries, not counting doubles, triples, and box sets…and some arabic reoords that I can’t read or type an entry for. The confusing compilation albums took a long time. Now I have a handful of 10-inches and a small stack of 7-inches and I am done.

Now I am into the compilation albums which require more time per record. My three final subgroupings are artist-referenced, compilations and content-referenced .

I am coming up on 600 and have run out of steam. Figuring out a way to file the compilation albums and “content-referenced” material, (as opposed to artist-referenced material), is not an easy fix for some avoiding the use of genres.

I have been handing number one son a short stack to catalog every night. Should be done in another week at this rate…...Then the CDs and of course the cassettes.

A few years back, I wrote a little excel macro that automatically catalogs MP3s on one’s hard drive onto worksheet, but I lost it in a hard drive crash before I could distribute it. If it was still alive I could easily modify it to catalog flacs and oggs too.

With such a huge music collection, I think I will get a lot more enjoyment of it by having a document to browse instead of having to dig through the stacks, racks and files.

I don’t listen to it very much these days. Many of the records I have never listened to. I had it sorted by genre and alphabetical but I wasn’t keeping up with it. Today I decided to resort and catalog the whole thing. I enlisted my number 1 son to help, he did…with a four hour break…that he took in the same room where I was working…

We cataloged 460 titles (477 altogether as I have doubles and triples of some titles). We called it a night after spending many hours. I guess I am about 2/3 through. When I finish, I can just look at the spreadsheet instead of digging through the stacks. Then I can add notes and reviews to the catalog for all of the stuff that I can’t remember or haven’t ever played.