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Bakoon 13r Denon DP80 Stax UA-70 Shure Ultra 500 in a Martin Bastin body with jico stylus, project ds2 digital Rullit aero 8 field coils in tqwt speakers
Office system, DIY CSS fullrange speakers with aurum cantus G2 ribbons yulong dac Sony STR6055 receiver Jvc QL-A51 direct drive turntable, Leema sub. JVC Z4S cart is in the house
Garage system another Sony receiver, cassette deck
System components are subject to change without warning and at the discretion of the owner.
Location: Alford Lincolnshire
Posts: 84
I'm William.
Hi Joanna
I have exactly the same trouble cataloging is one thing and filing is another to quote a friend ‘ any fool can file things it’s finding them when you want is the trick’.
I like the idea of the app but it appears that you have to pay for it every year, it’s not much but it doesn’t say what happens if you don’t keep up the subscription.
For me both elements are essential, probably I could live without accurate cataloging but putting them back in the right place is so frustrating when you are looking for something and you can’t find yet ‘ you know it’s there somewhere’
The system I came up with can do both of these things - yes you do need a computer to catalogue but not to file and retrieve. It may not be the greatest but it does work I was hoping that someone had a better system. I do like Adrian’s suggestion though an will carefully consider it.
Regards
William
Location: Alford Lincolnshire
Posts: 84
I'm William.
Hi Joanna
I have exactly the same trouble cataloging is one thing and filing is another to quote a friend ‘ any fool can file things it’s finding them when you want is the trick’.
I like the idea of the app but it appears that you have to pay for it every year, it’s not much but it doesn’t say what happens if you don’t keep up the subscription.
For me both elements are essential, probably I could live without accurate cataloging but putting them back in the right place is so frustrating when you are looking for something and you can’t find yet ‘ you know it’s there somewhere’
The system I came up with can do both of these things - yes you do need a computer to catalogue but not to file and retrieve. It may not be the greatest but it does work I was hoping that someone had a better system. I do like Adrian’s suggestion though an will carefully consider it.
Regards
William
I effectively do the same as Barry but also with the CLZ Collectors application to catalogue one of the user defined fields I have added is a location one, as some are in a study(not listened to as much) and the others are in the Lounge, with 9000 records you could use this to help where they are put back. IMO some form of genre split and alphabetical within that works best. Bu you do need to have some discipline putting them back to where they came from at some point, and/or update the database to indicate where they are, otherwise you are wasting your time.
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I don't get it. Why make everything so complicated ??
What's wrong with purely alphabetical ?
I put all my vinyl (2000 ish) in alpha order by artist surname or title if it's an OST.
The only section that I have separate from the main bulk is classical because some records have more than one composer on so I file them depending on the major work.
CDs I separate by genre then alpha.
I have Rock and Pop, Blues and Jazz, Electronica, Country/Americana, MOBO (soul, hip hop, funk, RnB), Reggae, OSTs, World, Classical and Spoken Word/Comedy.
The reason is because they're easier to read and it doesn't take long to find them if they should go missing somewhere.
As for crossover artists, I worked in record shops for more than twenty years so I know where I put each artist no matter how contentious (eg Prince is in MOBO, Portishead are electronica, Level 42 are pop, Stanley Clarke is jazz and Roy Ayers is MOBO).
Having said all that, I know people who file their socks in colour order
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I'm Lawrence.
I think BLM might take you up on your old school definition of MOBO aren't blues and jazz also of BO? Possibly rock n roll too?
Anyway, I always sort by genre first as if I'm in a certain mood I know which section to go straight to. I then tend to put it chronologically within that by artists' first album. For example c.80s electronic/new romantic would start with someone like Human League (reproduction) although depending on mood when I'm sorting I might put someone like Kraftwerk before them rather than at the start of electronica/dance.
Classical is roughly sorted by composer chronologically (birth date generally) and then orchestral/chamber/choral/solo within composer. I might make exceptions eg French mid baroque will be together and not have a German composer stuck in the middle because of his birth date. Also Corelli is followed by Vivaldi then Handel as I find their compositions reflect the trend in musical development of that period, reflecting how I choose my music by mood (which is the ultimate point of sorting for me)
For similar reasons late classical tends to become more "sub-genre" than birth date eg all English composers from about Elgar onwards go together.
Now I've written it down it seems to be a lot more complicated (and subjective) than I'd realised!
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That's making it a lot more complicated than I would have it. I only have a very rough idea of when a composer was born - and when it comes to Medieval music, do you know the birth date of say: Guiraut de Bornelh; Jaufre Rudel de Blaye; Gaucelm Faidit; Bernart de Ventadorn; Raimbault de Vaqueras; Piere Vidal; Thibaut of Navarre; Guillaume de Marchaut, or Herman of Saltzburg?
Barry
Location: London/Durham
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I'm Lawrence.
All the CDs have their years of birth and death on the back (if known) so it's not that difficult, but country of origin will usually override exact year if they were born again within a few years of one another.
That way if I fancy some music from the Notre Dame school for example I can go straight to that section and pick what I want. (I've only got a couple of albums of that btw, I was introduced to it through David Munrow's excellent album "Music of the Gothic Era".)
Bach and Handel caused an issue both being born in 1685 but as Handel lived longer, and I find his later music adapted more with European musical development over the period then Bach, then I found it an easy decision to put Bach first.
I also found when I was young that doing this sorting helped me put the music into its historical context and appreciate it all the more.
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