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Keep on Truckin'
Being a 'classic rock' fan, as well as a jazz fan, opera fan, blues fan.....means that I have a collection of stuff taking up a shitload of room in my house. It also means that I need a handy way to organize all this stuff.
Physically I use Ikea storage for albums, and a hacked-together cabinet I made out of scrap wood 26 years ago. I use those cassette racks and a cd rack, too. So, physically I'm good, everything is tidy and organized.
But, what about reports, catalogs, history, and whatnot? What about using data like - how many rock albums from 1967? And other correlation tasks, etc.
Many people like to use their discogs account as it provisions a database for them. That's cool and all, but - I like to keep my data with me and actual collections software lets me do a whole lot more.
On my GNU/Linux box (Debian, the only one) I use Tellico. Where it shines is its ability to deal with massive data and allowing me to create as many custom fields as I like. It's got a handy search function where I enter the cat # and it will search Discogs, or others, for me to find that recording, then I hit a button and the data is in my collection.
Tellico exports to html, too, so I can post a table into or solely as its own web page - which is very cool.
I can arrange and present my data in myriad ways and data correlation is wicked fast. I can produce reports saved as pdf or html (and csv), I can loan a friend an album and keep track (heh, as if...), etc., etc., etc. I love this software.
There are other collections managers and it seems like most of you (heh, ALL?) run Windows. What is your favorite collections program?
Physically I use Ikea storage for albums, and a hacked-together cabinet I made out of scrap wood 26 years ago. I use those cassette racks and a cd rack, too. So, physically I'm good, everything is tidy and organized.
But, what about reports, catalogs, history, and whatnot? What about using data like - how many rock albums from 1967? And other correlation tasks, etc.
Many people like to use their discogs account as it provisions a database for them. That's cool and all, but - I like to keep my data with me and actual collections software lets me do a whole lot more.
On my GNU/Linux box (Debian, the only one) I use Tellico. Where it shines is its ability to deal with massive data and allowing me to create as many custom fields as I like. It's got a handy search function where I enter the cat # and it will search Discogs, or others, for me to find that recording, then I hit a button and the data is in my collection.
Tellico exports to html, too, so I can post a table into or solely as its own web page - which is very cool.
I can arrange and present my data in myriad ways and data correlation is wicked fast. I can produce reports saved as pdf or html (and csv), I can loan a friend an album and keep track (heh, as if...), etc., etc., etc. I love this software.
There are other collections managers and it seems like most of you (heh, ALL?) run Windows. What is your favorite collections program?
