How do you catalogue your collection?

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Posted by keithos27 on Jan-03-2005 20:46:

How do you catalogue your collection?

By artist, then title? By record label? Etc. What do you find to be most effective?

Cheers,
Keith

Posted by TranceSpeeder on Jan-03-2005 21:05:

by bpm

Posted by DJ Intrigue on Jan-03-2005 21:12:

Alphabetically by record label.

Posted by Mr.Mystery on Jan-03-2005 21:18:

I... hum... don't. All my records are in a big jumble leaning against the wall. Somehow I keep finding the records I'm looking for easily though.

Posted by Eis on Jan-03-2005 22:03:

quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
I... hum... don't. All my records are in a big jumble leaning against the wall. Somehow I keep finding the records I'm looking for easily though.

+1 except my records are in my bookshelf...

Posted by djdimensions on Jan-03-2005 22:06:

By Artist makes work a lot easier when looking for them

Posted by mr. sound on Jan-03-2005 22:07:

by key, then within the keys by bpm.

Posted by idoru on Jan-03-2005 22:36:

By artist. I'm fine with knowing what kinds of styles a label is, and what artists it has, but I don't like categorizing it like that. In addition, I think of the artist of the tune before I even think of the label.

Posted by Tony Morello on Jan-03-2005 23:58:

by power

Posted by Tommi [77] on Jan-04-2005 00:33:

quote:
Originally posted by DJ Intrigue
Alphabetically by record label.

+1

and generally split between trance/house and techno

Posted by DJ Coleman on Jan-04-2005 00:51:

I'm actually developing a system in PHP and MySQL. I will let you all download it for free. It will be a system so you can find, edit, add anytime you want too. Right at your finger tips.

Look forward to this coming out Spring 2005.

Check http://www.dj-coleman.com for more development on this in the upcoming weeks.

Its going to be called Record Logger.

PM me and i'll see what things i can impliment into the system. I might have to charge for this... since you know its free, and taking my time. So thats why donations are open.

Tell me what you think about this idea. It will be very helpful. It will have search so if you have like 100's of records find the one by just searching.

Posted by Tegu on Jan-04-2005 01:12:

quote:
Originally posted by TranceSpeeder
by bpm

+1

Posted by TwoPlow on Jan-04-2005 03:01:

in four sections. House/techno, drum and bass, ambient/idm, experimental/post-rock/everything else. Within those sections alphabetically by artist, chronologically within artist.

Posted by Eric Siefer on Jan-05-2005 06:29:

hrmm...

by genre.. house, trance...

and for now, those that mix well go up front, those that dont go in back... occasionally some from the back move up to the front as my skill increases.

Posted by MykonosBoy22 on Jan-05-2005 09:52:

Records are a-z for me too....

question though, whats the best way to organize cds in an album.. alphabetically, new-old, old-new?

Posted by ashish on Jan-05-2005 12:23:

by different styles of music!
trance,prog,house

Posted by TranceMuzik02 on Jan-05-2005 16:54:

By genre, and then by artists, alphabetically.

Posted by jusware on Jan-06-2005 01:12:

I sort my vinyl by genre trance/psy/tech house/french house. When I buy new records I analyze them and write down information about every track in my little book. I write down the BPM, Sub-Genres(Tech,Psy,dark,epic), anything that stands out (synth lines,vocals,bass riffs) and finally I rate every track 1-4stars. This way I can find that dark-tech track with a low bass riff that I want in my set easily. NOTE: I lost my short term memory in college. Also note: if you don't have a short term memory it is very hard to have a long term memory. Now what was I doing again...

Posted by Ghostface on Jan-06-2005 01:26:

In my record bay I catalogue by bpm and each bpm is sorted by key. The other records are just random.

Posted by Ygrene on Jan-06-2005 03:18:

I go by genre right now but, I've only got about 80 records. I can see that as my collection gets larger I'll have to make some adjustments to that system though.

Posted by D-res on Jan-06-2005 04:14:

mine kinda go into my crate in the order i buy them. the newer, the closer to one side. i always keep all my vinyls in the same spot to. i always know where each one is too.

Posted by djsanctuary on Jan-07-2005 17:41:

cataloging

I cheat an use www.discogs.com to do it for me!

Posted by keithos27 on Jan-07-2005 18:35:

Re: cataloging

quote:
Originally posted by djsanctuary
I cheat an use www.discogs.com to do it for me!

but how do u sort them?

Posted by L.E.N. on Jan-07-2005 19:11:

I have 4 crates one with breaks, one with harder/darker NRG and one with happier stuff. The last one has my old albums and some jungle, and house.

There really isnt an order though. I for some reason can find what Im looking for when playing.

Posted by djsanctuary on Jan-07-2005 19:18:

Re: Re: cataloging

quote:
Originally posted by keithos27
but how do u sort them?

Download the excel speadsheet and sort by whichever...(default is Record Number)

I usually first sort by style/speed - trance, house, etc... cheese - then sort by record label/number within each case...

I find it easy to find records like that.

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