Cataloging Music Collection

DallasBlack wrote:

I'm over a year behind on my RYM page. Tried to catalog my CDs but it's too much work.

When that happened to me, I'm reminded of some words of wisdom from an old friend that were imparted to me during my years of Jedi training.



It's really helped. I can now levitate my coffee mug for refills.

I use RYM but also my own spreadsheet. I find that RYM doesn't have all of the editions of an album, so my complete list is on a spreadsheet. I also find using a spreadsheet useful to keep track of items I'm waiting to be delivered as it can be quite difficult at times to remember what you ordered!

i use RYM too, but i haven't kept up with adding to it in the past few months. too much traveling & other sorts of stuff. it's gotten so bad that i dread having to catch it up now.

I've been adding my collection on RecordNerd, though I'm not 100% satisfied with it as a free service. It seems like the # of fields they have are a bit limited. It'd be nice if there was more flexibility or more you could do with it, but I guess free is free. I do like that I can export it (once I'm done) to a .CSV file and manipulate it in Excel. Once I get my entire collection done, I'll do that and then keep up the list in both places as stuff trickles in.

Ill check out that site too

As anal as I am with most things, I just use a simple Excel spreadsheet. I have tabs for A through Z, then one for the numbered bands like 311 and 7th Rail Crew. Then I have a Various Artists tab for comps, tribute CDs, and soundtracks.

And I only list the band name and album title; plus things like "13 of 500," if it's numbered, or "w/Bonus Tracks" and so forth. It's very simple.

I started it when I had like 5,000 albums, so there was no way in hell I was adding label names and all that crap. Haha.

Eyesore wrote:

And I only list the band name and album title; plus things like "13 of 500," if it's numbered, or "w/Bonus Tracks" and so forth. It's very simple.

i do that too. ill also add Digi as well.

Eyesore wrote:

As anal as I am with most things, I just use a simple Excel spreadsheet. I have tabs for A through Z, then one for the numbered bands like 311 and 7th Rail Crew. Then I have a Various Artists tab for comps, tribute CDs, and soundtracks.

And I only list the band name and album title; plus things like "13 of 500," if it's numbered, or "w/Bonus Tracks" and so forth. It's very simple.

I started it when I had like 5,000 albums, so there was no way in hell I was adding label names and all that crap. Haha.

Right now my Excel spreadsheet has fields for artist/album, and a notes field which Ive left blank as Im still inputting stuff and sorting it will change the fields but doing a tab for each letter sounds like a good idea I might do that too once i have everything entered. Thanks for the idea

I also am using RYM got over 300 disks entered almost half of my collection... In going through them Im also ripping some albums to mp3 as I will have no room to keep my music library out of storage

If an edition isn't listed on RYM, why not add it yourself?

kyleblack wrote:

If an edition isn't listed on RYM, why not add it yourself?

You can only do that if you have proof the album exists. I have a few indie albums that I can't find any website verifying it's existence.

I have a legal pad

When I get a new thang, I go down to the next empty line and write the name of the band, the title, and the format. Example, Havok-Time Is Up (vinyl) or AC/DC-Jailbreak 74' (cassette)


Sure it might take a lil "reading" to find stuff but it has worked for me for years. If I get rid of something, it just takes a lil effort to run a line across the entry.

In case people wonder, I do use an electric razor.

DallasBlack wrote:

kyleblack wrote:

If an edition isn't listed on RYM, why not add it yourself?

You can only do that if you have proof the album exists. I have a few indie albums that I can't find any website verifying it's existence.

I get you there. But if an album is already on the site, adding a different edition is easy to do.