I put all of my records onto Discogs during lockdown, with far less in my collection than you have it was a pretty painless process. It was helped by not having masses of records with multitudes of pressings. For example, I have a couple of hundred UK country records, all of which are the only released version of the album. So, that kind of thing made it a doddle for me. I really wouldn't want to be approaching the whole task with a huge collection of very popular artists. The meagre collection of Beatles records I own were a major ball ache. I keep trying to get Louise to understand how important my Discogs account will be for her if anything happens to me, but she thinks I'm just trying to talk to her about records and switches off, or pretends to go to sleep. I might have to delete my account before I pop my clogs, just to piss her off and prove my point! Cheers - Hedley
I literally could not watch this whole video. I finished putting my entire collection which is close to this size on Discogs and I could feel the vinyl noose tightening around my neck as you began explaining it. It all came back, researching for hours dozens of titles with matrix numbers not in the database, the eyes straining to read the faint barely scratched numbers in the deadwax. Was that a Pickneyville or Gloversville pressing, RL SS one side...both sides, RE1 cut no RE1 AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
So I just started collecting again after selling most of my collection 10 years ago. To find the right issue of a record in discogs I just enter the wax number in the search, and I haven’t had any problems locating the right issue. I don’t have any rare items so maybe that is why, or maybe I’m doing something wrong? Since my collection is small right now I’m just going to go back and check that they are correct. Anyway, thank you for the video…it gave me several ideas to improve my organization and I love the dividers!
I usually have to go all the way down to the matrix numbers but you're right, even then sometimes I can't read it or it's one number off and I can't find the exact matrix number variation. So I just pick the closest one.
one of the most frustrating things with discogs is that you cannot upload your collection data to another account after export. why even export it then ?!
I have been dreading cataloging my music on discogs. I am retiring and moving to Maine. Long cold winters will be when I start my discogs catalog. 10, 000, lps, 45s, 78s, cassettes, cds. It's not just monetary value but I have forgot exactly what I have.
Thanks for the video Mazzy. The timing is certainly poignant for me as my insurance company said I needed to send them my collection and determine value. Since so much of my vinyl was purchased decades ago (1960's onward) I had no idea what they are worth. I'm now over 1100 LPs into cataloguing on Discogs and it has turned into a labor of love because with this much music, a couple thousand more to go than have to start the CDs) it is tedious work. Especially difficult is reading the matrix of each side and then often finding that the matrix, because there are so many catalogue numbers that are the same, doesn't match anything I've seen. I wish there was a way to put the matrix in as a line item and up comes the correct LP. Now that would be a great time saving feature! What this cataloging exercise is also forcing me to do is to cover all my LPs, put the vinyl in MOFI sleeves and get rid of the flotsam and jetsam of my collection. Most of the titles being removed will just be donated. How did I end up with Gary Lewis and the Playboys or Leslie Gore? Ah my wife's collection :) Thanks again Mazzy and love your channel. You and 45 RPM are the voices on music and vinyl that I never want to miss.
I been using Discogs for years as a buyer and seller. I started entering just my US rock collection a few years ago but I got frustrated real fast. I entered about 50 albums, it’s a lot of work. I own about 2000 albums. One day I will start it up again.
Congrats on finishing the big wall! Monumental task for sure. Once you have everything entered it will feel so good. And then it's much easier to manage entering the stuff as its coming in. When you complete the project please come back on and share it! Maybe you can get Amanda to share some organizational, archiving tips about entering in to Discogs.
Having close to around 1000 LPS I also wanted to catalogue them in DisCogs but the idea of sitting down and spending hours and hours inputting them seemed to daunting and to be honest boring. So what I did starting a couple of years ago was input them as I played them. I am up to around 300 and feeling satisfied the my vinyl collection is being enjoyed and archived at the same time. Consequently my latest additions are the running order, for the most part, of the albums I have played in the last while.Thanks for the channel keep up the great stuff.
Whew!!!! That is a TON of work. Probably wore out your glasses!!!!....and the Beatles are WORST to look up for sure in my experience as well lol. Even when I'm working at the shop and pricing things I always leave Beatles albums for Billy to look up and price because I refuse lol! I put my collection in over about 16 months (about 4000) and it was no small feet so I totally take pleasure in you completing that wall!!!!! Keep pushing Maz!!
I have just under 800 LP's and a baker's dozen 7" in my collection entered on Discogs and while it was a time-consuming task to enter them all, I find it invaluable having access to the phone app when record shopping to make sure I am not buying stuff I already own cos, I'm old and easily confused.... ;)
One has to watch out for the extra-snooty people on Discogs, tho... I started adding my collection there a few weeks ago & added a matrix variation to a Lionel Hampton record on Columbia matching my copy in every way except 3 digits in the dead wax. I literally triple-checked everything about it vs. all the other versions, but a couple other owners kinda' freaked out about my addition despite my having listed three other perfectly-matching identifiers. Now I hafta quadruple-check it as well as not make the eagle-eyed others angry if I do need to defend my input.
Lmao, The Beatles are a BITCH along with Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin. I did 12000 albums and CDs in about a year when ever I was home I worked on it. If only I had used that information to for insurance! My insurance company would not insure it and I never got around to find another company. It is a labor of love and very interesting. When I started my collection over I kept my old collection in fanimal but put my new collection under collection2.
One of the hardest parts of entering records into Discogs is when you have to input a new submission of a record that isn’t in the database. It takes a long time to get right, especially because of the Discogs guidelines that are always changing. After about fifty or so new submissions I finally feel like I know what I’m doing. I actually enjoy the process.
I agree wth all your observations on the discogs experience. I have about 2500 records, and have just finished cleaning them with my Spincleaner, as well as putting them all as putting them all in outer sleeves and inners. That took me some considerable time, effort and expense as you can imagine. My next project is to catalog them- seems like a daunting task but it has to be done for the reasons you list. I would welcome a simple tutorial on how to navigate the app. Enjoyed the video. Cheers.
So glad I started with discogs right from the begining, just over 500 with a good number of boxsets. Just recently reorganised having recently moved house and found a few that hadnt been inputted which is always a bonus. Ended up using the A-Z Artist system Discogs uses although I can see the value in genre based that I had previously, problem with that is artists that move genre or where they directly fit, its never 100% clear. Its like any system, theres always pro's and cons.
Hey Mazzy. John here. I started collecting when I was 14 until about my mid twenties. I’m 58 now and started again about two years ago. I am absolutely in love with record collecting. I have 973 albums. All of which are in Discogs. It took me a long time. I can only imagine the amount you have. It must have been and still is daunting. When I reach a thousand albums I will be joining you in the Vinyl community. The Vinyl Crabb will be my channels name. Great job.
Until today I refused to dig into Discogs archiving. Fortunately I listed all my CDs and LPs from a very early stage on dbase, later coverted into Access. And since I have ripped all of my CDs, I have got direct access to the directories on my server. As I also have the problem not to know if I have got a particular record on vinyl while I am shopping, I have an excel copy of all my records on my tablet and smartphone. That does it, at least as long as I update the list before I go out shopping. In case I might ever leave this world, I am certain that my two sons, who are both very much into music, will take care of my treasures.
I don’t have the patience to do this. About two thirds of my LP and CD collection is in a data base (CLZ) and getting it there was painful. As long as you can find what you;re want to play, the rest doesn’t matter. Or, you can always just whack a mole.
I've been a Discogs user, seller, and buyer now for almost 5 years. I have about 1850 of my 2500 LPs entered at this point. It's a great tool, for all of the reasons you stated, but also, as you mentioned, it can be buggy as hell. That said, there are some issues they really need to work on and fix. The shipping tool is terrible, so I usually use PayPal shipping, but the international shipping policy was such as CF, that I decided, like many, to restrict my selling to US only. Somebody is getting rich off the seller fees, which are almost as high as eBay, so there is really no excuse for them not fixing the obvious issues. Lastly, being able to sort one's collection by ORIGINAL release date would be very useful. Oh, I have a special pair of +3.5 readers and a small LED flashlight on my desk, just for reading deadwax info.
I'll never been able to do this with my vinyl and CD collection having so many. I'll never use DIscogs for that. The only thing I could do might be go to the shelves and write the artist's name abreviated on a notebook, for example Black Sa 12 if i have 12 albums by Black Sabbath. I know what Black Sa means and I kinda know which records by Black Sa I have by memory. I already have the records sorted by genre and subgenre so I might do it. That's what your video inspired me to do. I will also write the genre name like shoegaze, funk or whatever before doing each list and at least I'll have a LP and CD list by genre on a piece of paper. Then Ill have to go to the computer, copy the list so I could be able to add new records or CD's each time I buy one.
I find the Discogs values are very misleading. Pretty much everything used I buy in stores for way cheaper than the Discogs median price. All that price means that someone somewhere just has to have that record and is willing to pay that much.
You can't take it with you , and tempus fugit . I think you just like putting things in order , controlling your life . But , whatever , nice collection .
I write in a book was gonna burn cds and file in a account takes up too much time.also have a book for films dvd.need to buy a new book.78s lp 45s cds.classical and pop.
I have been doing 5 a night I only have 2,481 out of my 4,500+ records . Its fun but, it's also hard & a lot of work at the same time. Hell there are over 1,000 different versions of dark side of the moon as well as sgt pepper's up there some time it's like looking for a needle in a hay stack.
I have a love / hate relationship with Discogs. I think you were being too nice using the word "wonky". They make a lot of money through the commissions they earn when music is purchased. There is no reason, financially that they do not improve there interface. I actually use a plugin called Discogs Enhancer that helps with some of the frustrating things. I will share with you my number one complaint. You may be familiar with "want lists" You select specific records that you "want" and when a seller adds to their database you are notified. In theory its a great idea, except slick sellers Unlist all there inventory in one click, then List the same inventory in one click and Discogs sees it as new inventory. So you wind up seeing the same seller trying to sell a $20 for $30 day after day and there is no way to turn off viewing a sellers account. My number 2 complaint? There is no way to send feedback to ask them to fix something. I believe they just don't care.
25% less than Median value at Discogs is a rough guide to market value. Love Discogs although I have about a 1,000 vinyls that are either not there or have never sold, so value/insurance wise not the ideal means for me to tell the Insurance company they owe me a 100k after the flood.
Hey Norman. There is a simple discogs answer to the Beatles well works for me just have one copy of each one simple. It's nice you have your genres to your liking if it works for you. Can go with moods too. Whatever you like. Nearly halfway then. I like discogs it's just when a photo disappears it's annoying. Yeah satisfying but a bit wonky you summed it up well there 😃
Hi Mazzy - great video! I have my entire collection in Discogs (vinyl 12" 33s and 45s , 7" 45s and CDs) It took quite a while to do as I have around 4500 items fairly evenly split between vinyl and CDs with about 650 7" 45s. I have found it easiest to add new releases and the hardest by far were the Beatle items due to the large number of items I have and all those variations. I added folders to subdivide the collection when I want to sort and see only the CDs or 7" 45s, etc. Discogs is great to determine what you have when the collection gets large and to know what the market considers of value. Currently my vinyl albums are showing a worth three times the value of my CDs which cost me more initially. It amuses me but like you I have no plans to sell at this time. My biggest pet peeve is my physical collection is sorted in old school alpha order and Discogs uses first name order. Yeah, that just flags me as "OLD".
just think of the space you could have saved if your vinyl collection had been cds instead. all those lps i see in your room could have been stored on several book cases. a superior format soundwise, with no degradation in sound over time and continued playback,and the last collectible physical format. plus most of us don't have a room to dedicate to a large music collection. cds superior in every way. sound,durability,storage space savings,and portability. it never got better than cd regardless of vinyl ludites claims of analog superiority. its more about love of the so called vinyl experience and nostalgia than anything else.
I only have 1200 listings on discogs I can imagine how long it took you I do it as I get my albums and I also want to ask do you put your CDs in there also?
Did mine during the beginning of the pandemic too. Add as I get more to keep it simple. Don’t want to ever have to do that again in bulk but it is nice to have an intimate insight into your collection. I suggest this to anyone interested in a deep dive. A bit of a bitch indeed!
Congratulations on reaching a milestone, Mazzy! I finished archiving my collection of vinyl and cd’s (1700+ total…not nearly in your ball park) just recently. Although frustrating at times, I really enjoyed the experience. During the process I was reintroduced to so much of my collection that I had not listened to for 20-30 years in some cases. Big fun! Enjoyed your video. Now get to work! 😎
Cool video Mazzy..I have been trying to motivate myself to tackle the Discog Project..it seems so daunting..I need to just start and persevere..very cool that you have gotten so deep in cataloguing your collection..great video👍❤glen
I made a spreadsheet on my vinyl collection a little over two years ago. I had all my albums in there, what I paid for them, if it’s a gatefold, what the groove markings are, where it was pressed, etc. But I started to get too many albums, and I couldn’t keep up. I stopped for awhile, then stopped buying albums and just focused on entering all my albums in the spreadsheet, then the buying started again…. I have a discogs account for buying albums, but I don’t have any of my albums in there. Looks cool though. I use discogs when entering my albums into my spreadsheet, I should also add them into discogs. Maybe I need to slow the buying of albums down first… Marvin Gaye’s 50th coming today, Are You Experienced? UHQR tomorrow, new chili peppers coming soon, my new album (6th album, first vinyl pressing) coming soon…. Still need two more Doors Acoustic Sounds 45rpm to finish the collection, it’s bandcamp Friday, maybe another Grouper album….
Massy, I have the same record cabinets, they're from Ikea, right? I don't think they have them any longer, and that stinks because I need more. As for achieving my collection, I have a tough time with that, as I have a whole section that is Classical music, from Medieval to Shostakovich. It's fun to do, but I get so sidetracked because I see an album I haven't listened to for awhile and that's the end of archiving my collection.
It's pronounced "Tare-Uh-HOAT!" 🤓😉 I have family there. They call themselves "Hautians" (rhymes with "potions") & I feel that we should all start using the same term for anything pressed at the old plant. It's just fun to say; like "Martian," or "Phoenician," but describing folks & stuff from the Wabash Valley. p.s.- That's pronounced "Waww-bash." 😘
Living in Australia I sit back and look in envy at the accessibility and pricing North Americans have for vinyl. But when it comes to putting stuff in discogs I finally get some upside. Most of my older pressings are Australian (or Aus/NZ) and when you look in discogs for options there are only 1 or 2 pressings - so no need to scour the dead wax. I have a few older US pressings and it is a real pain to log them properly with the high number of options. I have spent a fair bit of time to get about 75% of my collection into Discogs (about 1500) and fully understand the size of your undertaking. The good news is once you have it done, it is not hard logging in new acquisitions as you add them.
Little known Discogs mobile app feature. When in View Collection mode, give your iPhone or iPad a shake, and it will pull up a random item. A fun feature when you can't think of what to play.
It's a ball ache, no doubt about it. Logged mine over a year period I think....about 8000 items. Although still not done my few hundred 45s or CD boxsets. I found 60s UK Decca's, specifically Stones to be incredibly annoying. Who knew they pressed multiple multiple label variants of those early Stones lps. Another odd one was the Moody Blues and their 60s UK Deram releases. I was losing the will to live looking for my copies with dozens of label variants all pressed within a year or two. Keep at it Mazzy, you'll get there.
Nigel , I thought the UK Moody Blues pressings were superior to the US . I have the original US To our children, s lp and it is aweful . It has no life to it . The UK is better. Just sayin’ 🎸
@@jackwezesa1081 Hi Jack. I would imagine the UK pressings will be better audio (I'm in the UK so they're the only pressings I own). All I meant was there are so many UK Deram pressings listed on discogs for each lp that it was a pain to identify which one was my copy.
@@nigelcampag1290 Yeah I know what you mean. It ‘s the same here in the US with certain labels. I got a little off subject last night , too many whiskeys perhaps 🍹! You mentioned the Stones , those mono UK s are incredible . Have a good week end!
So at what point does Discogs servers crash due to too many people recording their data there? Frankly I started my own database well before Discogs existed. Can back up in the cloud for security.
Ouff. Quite the undertaking. I started using discogs early on. Before the size of the collection grew too big. I can only imagine the process for you. I don’t have a lot of rock but man. What a pain in the ass they are. I don’t even bother with some. Toooooooo many pressings. Jazz is easy. I try to add records in as I get them but I am always finding stuff that I forgot to add in. Oh well. Best of luck with the rest Mazzy. -Kieran
I have got to start inputing my records into Discogs..been so busy with raising my son, and life.. like we all know, and have busy lives. Can start doing 30 to 45 min. at a time... and get it done ! Good topic Mazzy !
Great information Mazzy I finally started I’m only 467 in I have to really have to do a few every day to complete I should of started during the pandemic I was lazy.
Really cool to share this walk through your collecting process/mind space. Even cooler sharing the link to your Discogs for the finished(ish) product. Cheers! 🍻
I’m watching this bc I want to know why it’s so important to archive your collection bc and have in discogs? Even in the late 90’s when ppl. we’re going digital and everyone downloading their old albums. So, I never did that in the late 90’s bc it’s too much work. Even tho it would be great to have it organize and know exactly what you have. But is this to eventually sell on discogs or insurance purposes and valie?
So you put on discogs so ppl. can see what you have and it for sale? Hard to wrap my head around all that effort just to do that? I’ve had 10k records and knew each record I had and how many extra copies also . I’m a Virgo also, but always worked differently from most all my life. So if you have your collection on discogs, if you end up wanting to sell, then it’s already there? Just wondering bc I’m new to this whole online record collecting but not new with record collecting. It seems like they not only made this feature not only to help their members, but discogs hoping one day you will pass away and all you have to do is press a button and be able to sell your collection on discogs. That’s money for discogs and brilliant for them. Also what percentage do they charge and I don’t have the patient for hunting buttons to push yo hope it does what I want. They need to simplicity the site bc it is overwhelming and all over the place and 90% of the features, I don’t even get or understand.
Oh and they need to have a list of record terms on discogs like you said dead records and it may mean oop records or vintage, but knowing the exact meaning would help and easy to find the list and not hidden in discogs. So I’m sure many combine 2 records to have a pristine copy. But with all the manufacturing date and plants, is that frowned upon in the record community or commonly practice? I mean who wouldn’t want to switch the clean cover with the clean record. Do you have to look at the etching to know where it was manufactured or just match the bar code and tgat should be a match. Jeez, so much questions and work and I’m not even selling anything and have 40 years experience from the old way.
Thanks for sharing your experience of using Discogs to catalogue your collection. A few years back I decided to create a simple EXCEL Spreadsheet to create a disc library. I have just under 10000 discs of every format. I just couldn't face the gruelling task of getting down into the fine detail of catalogue numbers etc. I just list ARTIST, TITLE, LABEL, YEAR OF RELEASE and FORMAT. It serves my purpose. I was surprised to find that I had several exact same copies of many releases- it proved my "amazing memory" was indeed a creation of my imagination and ego! I can see the benefits of going all in to the nth degree but I don't have the patience! Time spent cataloguing is time taken away from something more enjoyable. At my time of life I want fun not drudgery! I do appreciate many actually do enjoy getting into the nuts and bolts and can become quite obsessed. Each to their own. There is no doubt Discogs is a great (though flawed) resource. Personally I've come a long way from 1972 and a hand written list I started to keep in a school jotter. My 12 year old self would've lost my mind at the thought of Discogs and being able to connect with folks across the continents and buy music from Japan, never mind the prospect of being able to access over 70 million tunes from the worlds biggest jukebox on a hand held phone that also included a camera and access to the entire knowledge that humankind had amassed over millennia. I think I need to go lay day for a while...
Love this video and I am in the process in fits and starts! The time it takes is huge! I’m trying to clean and replace sleeves as needed as I catalog. I sometimes wonder if I’ll live long enough to finish! Lol A few questions for you: 1. Have you finished yet? 2. Do you plan to put all your CDs in Discogs too? 3. You mentioned insurance.. have you found an insurer that will insure your vinyl collection?
I am in the process of putting my collection of about 2700 lp on Discogs. About a month in I am doing the" d's". It is tedious but I am enjoying getting to really know what I have right down to the deadwax. Visiting many albums the have not been off the shelf in decades! Also using this as an opportunity to cull. If it is not in good condition, is not valuable, or I never want to listen to it again it goes.
Thanks for the vid Mazzy. I found it a good poke in the ribs to get cracking again with logging my stuff on Discogs… I made a tentative start a few months back, prompted by one of your earlier vids but it fell off my to do list radar. I’m obviously letting the Virgonian (?) Team down.
Man, how did you do a whole wall in one day? Maybe I spend too much time looking at my vinyl as I put it in..it took me months to put in 700 records only working on it Saturdays and Sundays. Oh you mention the classical...THOSE were the most time consuming to input
@@mazzysmusic Ahh ok I thought I heard you say you finished one wall in a day, my apologies. I really need to find a solution like you have there, I lack space in an apartment and animals that wont be kind to my albums. I have them in a storage closet and pull them out to add in what I buy through the winter.
I’m a year late to the party on this channel. I’ve been collecting for a couple years; and luckily some other friends told me to use Discogs early on. So I’ve been using it since the beginning. What I DID do this year, though, was put my collection into a Spotify playlist so I can pull it up anytime I’m away from home (which is pretty often). That took about 15-20 hours. It was a ton of work to get started but now every time I buy something, it goes in Discogs and Spotify now. If you have the time and patience, the result’s well worth the effort in my opinion.
wow...really informative....i only have archived what i bought off of discogs so far....when i pass, my wife will probably just bring whatever i have left of my collection to a local used record store and sell off everything....(except ones i specify to leave for others...)....right now, except for some of my jazz albums, there's not much left worth much....however...i still cherish my 'coleman collection'...peace to you always my friend...rocky
I must use discogs (use collectorz as well); if not I would never find a record, seeing as how I store the next one bought in the next available space. No physical organizinfg for me---way too much of a pain. Use the editable fields in the software to keep track which cube a record is in. 1717 albums here.
hey Mazzy, im discogsing my collection these days and i actually kinda enjoy it but I have to be in the right mood. Friday evenings staying in with a few drinks and a smoke works well! I appreciate also for buying records as I have no record shop in town, and finding a bargain is even possible...in fact, im expecting Satanic Maj Mexican release retitled A 2,000 Años Luz de La Tierra any day!! Great video cheers
Your point about a father passing away suddenly and then the collection being left to family members it's home! It's taking me five years to figure out what or how to deal with my father's collection. It's nowhere near on the level that you are at! However, your video is inspired me to try to catalog his collection. Thanks for making this one
Interesting topic Mazzy. I have rarely used the Discogs app, perhaps because it is wonky. I am used to doing everything through a desktop computer. I think that I am 95% complete with my effort. Now I am backfilling the 150+ albums that I don't seem to exist in Discogs, yet. Do you plan to do the CDs after you finish the vinyl? Thanks, Chris
Discogs is also very important as a registration of artists and personal that worked in music production. I have been spending long time including musicians, songwriters and technical personal of Brazilian albums. Therefore this information becomes available for everyone and could be used in historical research.
Norman, you are one of the few online with the knowledge and love of the music you present. Also you describe the art of Archiving nicely: as it should be for any large Record Collection. I think, that any record collection beyond 500 LPs and 400 45rpm is a large collection. I have just illustrated my collection to you in the example, so I am verging on passing that mark. However, what I have now is my fourth record collection, of this size and musical expanse over the span of fifty years. Stay safe and go well.
Let’s get organized.. organized.. wow that’s a lot of inputting.I’ve been selling on Discogs for a few years. Trying to figure out which of the pressings that I have by trying to decipher the dead wax scrolls is always an adventure. Listing something that has never been addressed is can adventure as well and judged by highest scholars. Accuracy and minutia to its limits.
I could write a book about my usage of Discogs, LOL! I started cataloging my collection when I got back into vinyl at the beginning of the pandemic, and I had NO idea the rabbit hole I was entering...I have been collecting for nearly 50 years and I had NO IDEA what "deadwax" was or what details were there until I started this, and now I can't stop...dammit anyway! The one thing I wish Discogs had was allowing you to upload from other databases and then sorting out to match - my CD's are all done on a different program, and now i'm going to have to start them from scratch one of these days. Any chance you can post that cheat sheet the Archivist made for you? ::wink wink:: Great video as always, Mazzy - I have learned so much from you over the past two years, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, I'm sure...
You'll get there Mazzy - one cube at a time sweet Jesus. On my shelves I made a separate section for Jazz, but I'm thinking of going back to combining them all A-Z. I liked seeing strange pairings like the Cocteau Twins next to Coleman Hawkins.
Congrats, and good luck on your next 2000+ :) Discogs is a can of worms, but so useful. I started 5 years ago and am about 80% done with 8200 titles added. It's been a chore, especially for vinyl and popular titles on CD with all the individual variants, but it's so rewarding when it's finally done. I don't really like the phone/tablet version. I can work with the regular web/PC version a lot quicker.
Thanks for sharing your collection in this way. I have taken more than one or two "flyers" based on albums you've mentioned over the time I've been a subscriber. So far? not a dud yet. Now I can proceed at my pace reviewing all that you have archived. Based on my prior experinece this will be time well spend. Greatly appreciated!!!!!!
I also use Discog to keep track of how much I spend and find tracking prices another fun aspect of curating my collection. This helps to earmark worthless duds for removal from the collection which is a must when building a better collection in a limited space.
Thanks for this, Mazzy - really interesting to hear about your journey into the world of Discogs. I totally agree re: the jankiness of the iOS app. I tend to stick to web based app via Safari, even on my iPad Pro, as it offers a far more stable and feature rich experience.
I'm doing the same thing with my collection and looking forward to my milestone(s)...I calculated that if I can do 30-40 entries a day go forward, i'll finish the rest of it in one year. Congrats on your progress!
Interesting. Trying to sort one specific artist in your collection will also bring up others, which is annoying. Mostly an incredible app though. I look forward to you getting all your Beatles inputed!!!!
oh forgot to mention that while I'm cataloging in Discogs at the same time I'm scribbling on little white stickers the same basic info provided and sticking that on the top of the back of the outer plastic sleeve. I like seeing that info later on down the line when I pull the record out.
Great video! Big job! Incredible, fantastic! I immediately realized that I needed to enter into the database all the new publications that I buy. This makes the job easier! I never dreamed of a large collection like yours. I can’t even imagine how big and hard work it is. It is worthy of respect and admiration. The most difficult thing in this business is when you find the matrix number on your carrier but it is not in the database. It is very tiring - constantly checking all positions. But when you make progress, you get real pleasure.
Way to go, Mazzy! My goal is to be up to date on Discogs in Summer 2022 (LPS, 45s, CDs, and cassettes). I have been lagging on it. You have truly inspired me. - Heather
Good video, and I finally have my collection in Discogs this past year, but nowhere near the amount of records you had to deal with. I thought I was going to go blind searching the dead wax. I finally started using a magnifying glass which helped, but still frustrating, depending on the lighting. I’m sure most who watch your channel know about discogs and cataloguing their collection, but if not, discussing the dead wax stamped or hand written numbers is a great topic to expand on.
I put all of my records onto Discogs during lockdown, with far less in my collection than you have it was a pretty painless process. It was helped by not having masses of records with multitudes of pressings. For example, I have a couple of hundred UK country records, all of which are the only released version of the album. So, that kind of thing made it a doddle for me. I really wouldn't want to be approaching the whole task with a huge collection of very popular artists. The meagre collection of Beatles records I own were a major ball ache.
I keep trying to get Louise to understand how important my Discogs account will be for her if anything happens to me, but she thinks I'm just trying to talk to her about records and switches off, or pretends to go to sleep. I might have to delete my account before I pop my clogs, just to piss her off and prove my point!
Cheers - Hedley
I literally could not watch this whole video. I finished putting my entire collection which is close to this size on Discogs and I could feel the vinyl noose tightening around my neck as you began explaining it. It all came back, researching for hours dozens of titles with matrix numbers not in the database, the eyes straining to read the faint barely scratched numbers in the deadwax. Was that a Pickneyville or Gloversville pressing, RL SS one side...both sides, RE1 cut no RE1 AAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
You made me laugh! It brings back the nightmare it is trying to catalogue records in discogs and i have only started got a ways to go.
@@SDsailor7 Hehe, good luck. Its a lot of work but totally worth it. Just take it a piece at a time.
So I just started collecting again after selling most of my collection 10 years ago. To find the right issue of a record in discogs I just enter the wax number in the search, and I haven’t had any problems locating the right issue. I don’t have any rare items so maybe that is why, or maybe I’m doing something wrong? Since my collection is small right now I’m just going to go back and check that they are correct. Anyway, thank you for the video…it gave me several ideas to improve my organization and I love the dividers!
I usually have to go all the way down to the matrix numbers but you're right, even then sometimes I can't read it or it's one number off and I can't find the exact matrix number variation. So I just pick the closest one.
Got my full collection into discogs in 2022. Still some unlisted items to add thou. Actual number 7600 and rising 😊
one of the most frustrating things with discogs is that you cannot upload your collection data to another account after export. why even export it then ?!
I have been dreading cataloging my music on discogs. I am retiring and moving to Maine. Long cold winters will be when I start my discogs catalog. 10, 000, lps, 45s, 78s, cassettes, cds. It's not just monetary value but I have forgot exactly what I have.
Thanks for the video Mazzy. The timing is certainly poignant for me as my insurance company said I needed to send them my collection and determine value. Since so much of my vinyl was purchased decades ago (1960's onward) I had no idea what they are worth. I'm now over 1100 LPs into cataloguing on Discogs and it has turned into a labor of love because with this much music, a couple thousand more to go than have to start the CDs) it is tedious work. Especially difficult is reading the matrix of each side and then often finding that the matrix, because there are so many catalogue numbers that are the same, doesn't match anything I've seen. I wish there was a way to put the matrix in as a line item and up comes the correct LP. Now that would be a great time saving feature! What this cataloging exercise is also forcing me to do is to cover all my LPs, put the vinyl in MOFI sleeves and get rid of the flotsam and jetsam of my collection. Most of the titles being removed will just be donated. How did I end up with Gary Lewis and the Playboys or Leslie Gore? Ah my wife's collection :) Thanks again Mazzy and love your channel. You and 45 RPM are the voices on music and vinyl that I never want to miss.
Yes those matrix numbers. Sometimes you can't even read them.
Steve, I couldn’t stand Gary Lewis
‘S voice . I don’t mind Leslie Gore . California Nights is a cool 45 I bought in the 7th grade!
I been using Discogs for years as a buyer and seller. I started entering just my US rock collection a few years ago but I got frustrated real fast. I entered about 50 albums, it’s a lot of work. I own about 2000 albums. One day I will start it up again.
Congrats on finishing the big wall! Monumental task for sure. Once you have everything entered it will feel so good. And then it's much easier to manage entering the stuff as its coming in. When you complete the project please come back on and share it! Maybe you can get Amanda to share some organizational, archiving tips about entering in to Discogs.
Having close to around 1000 LPS I also wanted to catalogue them in DisCogs but the idea of sitting down and spending hours and hours inputting them seemed to daunting and to be honest boring. So what I did starting a couple of years ago was input them as I played them. I am up to around 300 and feeling satisfied the my vinyl collection is being enjoyed and archived at the same time. Consequently my latest additions are the running order, for the most part, of the albums I have played in the last while.Thanks for the channel keep up the great stuff.
I entered a cube and a half and was done with it.
Whew!!!! That is a TON of work. Probably wore out your glasses!!!!....and the Beatles are WORST to look up for sure in my experience as well lol. Even when I'm working at the shop and pricing things I always leave Beatles albums for Billy to look up and price because I refuse lol! I put my collection in over about 16 months (about 4000) and it was no small feet so I totally take pleasure in you completing that wall!!!!! Keep pushing Maz!!
So you have a record store now? Brick and mortar?
I have just under 800 LP's and a baker's dozen 7" in my collection entered on Discogs and while it was a time-consuming task to enter them all, I find it invaluable having access to the phone app when record shopping to make sure I am not buying stuff I already own cos, I'm old and easily confused.... ;)
One has to watch out for the extra-snooty people on Discogs, tho...
I started adding my collection there a few weeks ago & added a matrix variation to a Lionel Hampton record on Columbia matching my copy in every way except 3 digits in the dead wax. I literally triple-checked everything about it vs. all the other versions, but a couple other owners kinda' freaked out about my addition despite my having listed three other perfectly-matching identifiers. Now I hafta quadruple-check it as well as not make the eagle-eyed others angry if I do need to defend my input.
ME too! Great ......Wonderfully frustrating!........YES! I wish I had a cheat sheet! Yes I would have loved a tutorial.
You just made me feel so lazy, my albums are arranged A-Z by Artist, and no subcategories.
You have a real, nice collection, I collect 1940's, big band, I collect 1950, 60, and 70's jazz, Love Japanese jazz, that's what I love and collect!😊
Lmao, The Beatles are a BITCH along with Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin. I did 12000 albums and CDs in about a year when ever I was home I worked on it. If only I had used that information to for insurance! My insurance company would not insure it and I never got around to find another company. It is a labor of love and very interesting. When I started my collection over I kept my old collection in fanimal but put my new collection under collection2.
One of the hardest parts of entering records into Discogs is when you have to input a new submission of a record that isn’t in the database. It takes a long time to get right, especially because of the Discogs guidelines that are always changing. After about fifty or so new submissions I finally feel like I know what I’m doing. I actually enjoy the process.
I`ve tried a few times but get angry and give up
Wait a few weeks.
I agree wth all your observations on the discogs experience. I have about 2500 records, and have just finished cleaning them with my Spincleaner, as well as putting them all as putting them all in outer sleeves and inners. That took me some considerable time, effort and expense as you can imagine. My next project is to catalog them- seems like a daunting task but it has to be done for the reasons you list. I would welcome a simple tutorial on how to navigate the app. Enjoyed the video. Cheers.
So glad I started with discogs right from the begining, just over 500 with a good number of boxsets. Just recently reorganised having recently moved house and found a few that hadnt been inputted which is always a bonus. Ended up using the A-Z Artist system Discogs uses although I can see the value in genre based that I had previously, problem with that is artists that move genre or where they directly fit, its never 100% clear. Its like any system, theres always pro's and cons.
Hey Mazzy. John here. I started collecting when I was 14 until about my mid twenties. I’m 58 now and started again about two years ago. I am absolutely in love with record collecting. I have 973 albums. All of which are in Discogs. It took me a long time. I can only imagine the amount you have. It must have been and still is daunting. When I reach a thousand albums I will be joining you in the Vinyl community. The Vinyl Crabb will be my channels name. Great job.
Until today I refused to dig into Discogs archiving. Fortunately I listed all my CDs and LPs from a very early stage on dbase, later coverted into Access. And since I have ripped all of my CDs, I have got direct access to the directories on my server. As I also have the problem not to know if I have got a particular record on vinyl while I am shopping, I have an excel copy of all my records on my tablet and smartphone. That does it, at least as long as I update the list before I go out shopping. In case I might ever leave this world, I am certain that my two sons, who are both very much into music, will take care of my treasures.
Life’s to short for all this bollocks …
Love my music.. love my vinyl…but by Christ .. I’d rather get out of the house..
I don’t have the patience to do this. About two thirds of my LP and CD collection is in a data base (CLZ) and getting it there was painful. As long as you can find what you;re want to play, the rest doesn’t matter. Or, you can always just whack a mole.
I've been a Discogs user, seller, and buyer now for almost 5 years. I have about 1850 of my 2500 LPs entered at this point. It's a great tool, for all of the reasons you stated, but also, as you mentioned, it can be buggy as hell. That said, there are some issues they really need to work on and fix. The shipping tool is terrible, so I usually use PayPal shipping, but the international shipping policy was such as CF, that I decided, like many, to restrict my selling to US only. Somebody is getting rich off the seller fees, which are almost as high as eBay, so there is really no excuse for them not fixing the obvious issues. Lastly, being able to sort one's collection by ORIGINAL release date would be very useful.
Oh, I have a special pair of +3.5 readers and a small LED flashlight on my desk, just for reading deadwax info.
A big part of all trade on Discogs is from Russia. Until all Russian dealers are blocked we shouldn't use it.
I'll never been able to do this with my vinyl and CD collection having so many. I'll never use DIscogs for that. The only thing I could do might be go to the shelves and write the artist's name abreviated on a notebook, for example Black Sa 12 if i have 12 albums by Black Sabbath. I know what Black Sa means and I kinda know which records by Black Sa I have by memory. I already have the records sorted by genre and subgenre so I might do it. That's what your video inspired me to do. I will also write the genre name like shoegaze, funk or whatever before doing each list and at least I'll have a LP and CD list by genre on a piece of paper. Then Ill have to go to the computer, copy the list so I could be able to add new records or CD's each time I buy one.
I find the Discogs values are very misleading. Pretty much everything used I buy in stores for way cheaper than the Discogs median price. All that price means that someone somewhere just has to have that record and is willing to pay that much.
You can't take it with you , and tempus fugit . I think you just like putting things in order , controlling your life . But , whatever , nice collection .
I write in a book was gonna burn cds and file in a account takes up too much time.also have a book for films dvd.need to buy a new book.78s lp 45s cds.classical and pop.
I have been doing 5 a night I only have 2,481 out of my 4,500+ records . Its fun but, it's also hard & a lot of work at the same time. Hell there are over 1,000 different versions of dark side of the moon as well as sgt pepper's up there some time it's like looking for a needle in a hay stack.
I have a love / hate relationship with Discogs. I think you were being too nice using the word "wonky". They make a lot of money through the commissions they earn when music is purchased. There is no reason, financially that they do not improve there interface. I actually use a plugin called Discogs Enhancer that helps with some of the frustrating things.
I will share with you my number one complaint. You may be familiar with "want lists" You select specific records that you "want" and when a seller adds to their database you are notified. In theory its a great idea, except slick sellers Unlist all there inventory in one click, then List the same inventory in one click and Discogs sees it as new inventory. So you wind up seeing the same seller trying to sell a $20 for $30 day after day and there is no way to turn off viewing a sellers account. My number 2 complaint? There is no way to send feedback to ask them to fix something. I believe they just don't care.
Mazzy, got that Sons Of Champlain album. It was really good.
25% less than Median value at Discogs is a rough guide to market value. Love Discogs although I have about a 1,000 vinyls that are either not there or have never sold, so value/insurance wise not the ideal means for me to tell the Insurance company they owe me a 100k after the flood.
Hey Norman. There is a simple discogs answer to the Beatles well works for me just have one copy of each one simple. It's nice you have your genres to your liking if it works for you. Can go with moods too. Whatever you like. Nearly halfway then. I like discogs it's just when a photo disappears it's annoying. Yeah satisfying but a bit wonky you summed it up well there 😃
I've considered doing that but every time I do I immediately reconsider and decide not to do it.
Hi Mazzy - great video! I have my entire collection in Discogs (vinyl 12" 33s and 45s , 7" 45s and CDs) It took quite a while to do as I have around 4500 items fairly evenly split between vinyl and CDs with about 650 7" 45s. I have found it easiest to add new releases and the hardest by far were the Beatle items due to the large number of items I have and all those variations. I added folders to subdivide the collection when I want to sort and see only the CDs or 7" 45s, etc. Discogs is great to determine what you have when the collection gets large and to know what the market considers of value. Currently my vinyl albums are showing a worth three times the value of my CDs which cost me more initially. It amuses me but like you I have no plans to sell at this time. My biggest pet peeve is my physical collection is sorted in old school alpha order and Discogs uses first name order. Yeah, that just flags me as "OLD".
just think of the space you could have saved if your vinyl collection had been cds instead. all those lps i see in your room could have been stored on several book cases. a superior format soundwise, with no degradation in sound over time and continued playback,and the last collectible physical format. plus most of us don't have a room to dedicate to a large music collection. cds superior in every way. sound,durability,storage space savings,and portability. it never got better than cd regardless of vinyl ludites claims of analog superiority. its more about love of the so called vinyl experience and nostalgia than anything else.
Yeah, I don't use the app to catalogue. I only use my desktop. It's much more user friendly.
I only have 1200 listings on discogs I can imagine how long it took you I do it as I get my albums and I also want to ask do you put your CDs in there also?
I did 24,900 additions on Discogs by now. Only a few thousand to go😅
Did mine during the beginning of the pandemic too. Add as I get more to keep it simple. Don’t want to ever have to do that again in bulk but it is nice to have an intimate insight into your collection. I suggest this to anyone interested in a deep dive. A bit of a bitch indeed!
I am doing this Mazzy so am interested. Thank you!
Also james brown jungle groove 1972.
No way cataloging on the app, it has to be on my laptop. Only use the app on the fly in a shop
And like yourself if someone asked for a record you would know where it is,
Congratulations on reaching a milestone, Mazzy! I finished archiving my collection of vinyl and cd’s (1700+ total…not nearly in your ball park) just recently. Although frustrating at times, I really enjoyed the experience. During the process I was reintroduced to so much of my collection that I had not listened to for 20-30 years in some cases. Big fun!
Enjoyed your video. Now get to work! 😎
Cool video Mazzy..I have been trying to motivate myself to tackle the Discog Project..it seems so daunting..I need to just start and persevere..very cool that you have gotten so deep in cataloguing your collection..great video👍❤glen
Get ready for some frustration.
Congrats buddy! This is huge news. I have about a 1/16 of my collection in discogs.
Cheers☘️
💪🏻
I made a spreadsheet on my vinyl collection a little over two years ago. I had all my albums in there, what I paid for them, if it’s a gatefold, what the groove markings are, where it was pressed, etc. But I started to get too many albums, and I couldn’t keep up. I stopped for awhile, then stopped buying albums and just focused on entering all my albums in the spreadsheet, then the buying started again…. I have a discogs account for buying albums, but I don’t have any of my albums in there. Looks cool though. I use discogs when entering my albums into my spreadsheet, I should also add them into discogs. Maybe I need to slow the buying of albums down first… Marvin Gaye’s 50th coming today, Are You Experienced? UHQR tomorrow, new chili peppers coming soon, my new album (6th album, first vinyl pressing) coming soon…. Still need two more Doors Acoustic Sounds 45rpm to finish the collection, it’s bandcamp Friday, maybe another Grouper album….
Yeah the hits keep on coming ✌🏼
Buy doublers especially classical.
Massy, I have the same record cabinets, they're from Ikea, right? I don't think they have them any longer, and that stinks because I need more. As for achieving my collection, I have a tough time with that, as I have a whole section that is Classical music, from Medieval to Shostakovich. It's fun to do, but I get so sidetracked because I see an album I haven't listened to for awhile and that's the end of archiving my collection.
Yes IKEA Bonde. Discontinued about a decade ago. Sometimes they turn up on Craigslist. ✌🏼
The maddening process of figuring out what you have.God help you if you are a Beatles collector.
Oh yeah. 😵💫
It's pronounced "Tare-Uh-HOAT!" 🤓😉
I have family there. They call themselves "Hautians" (rhymes with "potions") & I feel that we should all start using the same term for anything pressed at the old plant. It's just fun to say; like "Martian," or "Phoenician," but describing folks & stuff from the Wabash Valley.
p.s.- That's pronounced "Waww-bash." 😘
🤷🏻♂️😵💫🥺😎🤠😘 thank you
Living in Australia I sit back and look in envy at the accessibility and pricing North Americans have for vinyl. But when it comes to putting stuff in discogs I finally get some upside. Most of my older pressings are Australian (or Aus/NZ) and when you look in discogs for options there are only 1 or 2 pressings - so no need to scour the dead wax. I have a few older US pressings and it is a real pain to log them properly with the high number of options. I have spent a fair bit of time to get about 75% of my collection into Discogs (about 1500) and fully understand the size of your undertaking. The good news is once you have it done, it is not hard logging in new acquisitions as you add them.
It’s a long haul but rewarding in the end
Fremer did an interview with Discog founder, out of Portland I think. User sourced info but the software bones are by this company.
I did see that ✌🏼
Little known Discogs mobile app feature. When in View Collection mode, give your iPhone or iPad a shake, and it will pull up a random item. A fun feature when you can't think of what to play.
Yeah that’s one cool thing
It's a ball ache, no doubt about it. Logged mine over a year period I think....about 8000 items. Although still not done my few hundred 45s or CD boxsets. I found 60s UK Decca's, specifically Stones to be incredibly annoying. Who knew they pressed multiple multiple label variants of those early Stones lps. Another odd one was the Moody Blues and their 60s UK Deram releases. I was losing the will to live looking for my copies with dozens of label variants all pressed within a year or two. Keep at it Mazzy, you'll get there.
Nigel , I thought the UK Moody Blues pressings were superior to the US . I have the original US To our children, s lp and it is aweful . It has no life to it . The UK is better. Just sayin’ 🎸
@@jackwezesa1081 Hi Jack. I would imagine the UK pressings will be better audio (I'm in the UK so they're the only pressings I own). All I meant was there are so many UK Deram pressings listed on discogs for each lp that it was a pain to identify which one was my copy.
@@nigelcampag1290 Yeah I know what you mean. It ‘s the same here in the US with certain labels. I got a little off subject last night , too many whiskeys perhaps 🍹! You mentioned the Stones , those mono UK s are incredible . Have a good week end!
@@jackwezesa1081 Haha, easily done. Yep, can't go wrong with the UK mono's. Cheers...you too.
So at what point does Discogs servers crash due to too many people recording their data there? Frankly I started my own database well before Discogs existed. Can back up in the cloud for security.
I guess that could happen. It’s good to download a copy every few months. It won’t be live but at least a printed version
Ouff. Quite the undertaking. I started using discogs early on. Before the size of the collection grew too big. I can only imagine the process for you. I don’t have a lot of rock but man. What a pain in the ass they are. I don’t even bother with some. Toooooooo many pressings. Jazz is easy. I try to add records in as I get them but I am always finding stuff that I forgot to add in. Oh well. Best of luck with the rest Mazzy. -Kieran
Love those shelves. What brand are they?
Probably IKEA Kallax. Sturdy as hell.
I have got to start inputing my records into Discogs..been so busy with raising my son, and life.. like we all know, and have busy lives. Can start doing 30 to 45 min. at a time... and get it done ! Good topic Mazzy !
Great information Mazzy I finally started I’m only 467 in I have to really have to do a few every day to complete I should of started during the pandemic I was lazy.
Really cool to share this walk through your collecting process/mind space. Even cooler sharing the link to your Discogs for the finished(ish) product. Cheers! 🍻
Does anyone know what shelves he is using? Looking good.
IKEA Bonde which were discontinued about a decade ago. 🤷🏻♂️
I’m watching this bc I want to know why it’s so important to archive your collection bc and have in discogs? Even in the late 90’s when ppl. we’re going digital and everyone downloading their old albums. So, I never did that in the late 90’s bc it’s too much work. Even tho it would be great to have it organize and know exactly what you have. But is this to eventually sell on discogs or insurance purposes and valie?
So you put on discogs so ppl. can see what you have and it for sale? Hard to wrap my head around all that effort just to do that? I’ve had 10k records and knew each record I had and how many extra copies also . I’m a Virgo also, but always worked differently from most all my life.
So if you have your collection on discogs, if you end up wanting to sell, then it’s already there? Just wondering bc I’m new to this whole online record collecting but not new with record collecting. It seems like they not only made this feature not only to help their members, but discogs hoping one day you will pass away and all you have to do is press a button and be able to sell your collection on discogs. That’s money for discogs and brilliant for them. Also what percentage do they charge and I don’t have the patient for hunting buttons to push yo hope it does what I want. They need to simplicity the site bc it is overwhelming and all over the place and 90% of the features, I don’t even get or understand.
Oh and they need to have a list of record terms on discogs like you said dead records and it may mean oop records or vintage, but knowing the exact meaning would help and easy to find the list and not hidden in discogs.
So I’m sure many combine 2 records to have a pristine copy. But with all the manufacturing date and plants, is that frowned upon in the record community or commonly practice? I mean who wouldn’t want to switch the clean cover with the clean record. Do you have to look at the etching to know where it was manufactured or just match the bar code and tgat should be a match. Jeez, so much questions and work and I’m not even selling anything and have 40 years experience from the old way.
Thanks for sharing your experience of using Discogs to catalogue your collection. A few years back I decided to create a simple EXCEL Spreadsheet to create a disc library. I have just under 10000 discs of every format. I just couldn't face the gruelling task of getting down into the fine detail of catalogue numbers etc. I just list ARTIST, TITLE, LABEL, YEAR OF RELEASE and FORMAT. It serves my purpose. I was surprised to find that I had several exact same copies of many releases- it proved my "amazing memory" was indeed a creation of my imagination and ego! I can see the benefits of going all in to the nth degree but I don't have the patience! Time spent cataloguing is time taken away from something more enjoyable. At my time of life I want fun not drudgery! I do appreciate many actually do enjoy getting into the nuts and bolts and can become quite obsessed. Each to their own. There is no doubt Discogs is a great (though flawed) resource. Personally I've come a long way from 1972 and a hand written list I started to keep in a school jotter. My 12 year old self would've lost my mind at the thought of Discogs and being able to connect with folks across the continents and buy music from Japan, never mind the prospect of being able to access over 70 million tunes from the worlds biggest jukebox on a hand held phone that also included a camera and access to the entire knowledge that humankind had amassed over millennia. I think I need to go lay day for a while...
Love this video and I am in the process in fits and starts! The time it takes is huge! I’m trying to clean and replace sleeves as needed as I catalog. I sometimes wonder if I’ll live long enough to finish! Lol
A few questions for you:
1. Have you finished yet?
2. Do you plan to put all your CDs in Discogs too?
3. You mentioned insurance.. have you found an insurer that will insure your vinyl collection?
I am in the process of putting my collection of about 2700 lp on Discogs. About a month in I am doing the" d's". It is tedious but I am enjoying getting to really know what I have right down to the deadwax. Visiting many albums the have not been off the shelf in decades! Also using this as an opportunity to cull. If it is not in good condition, is not valuable, or I never want to listen to it again it goes.
Not a bad little collection...lol. Amazing collection I really enjoyed looking thru it on Discogs. Added you as a friend ..peace brother.
Thanks for the vid Mazzy. I found it a good poke in the ribs to get cracking again with logging my stuff on Discogs… I made a tentative start a few months back, prompted by one of your earlier vids but it fell off my to do list radar. I’m obviously letting the Virgonian (?) Team down.
Man, how did you do a whole wall in one day? Maybe I spend too much time looking at my vinyl as I put it in..it took me months to put in 700 records only working on it Saturdays and Sundays. Oh you mention the classical...THOSE were the most time consuming to input
It wasn’t one day. It was months maybe a year.
@@mazzysmusic Ahh ok I thought I heard you say you finished one wall in a day, my apologies. I really need to find a solution like you have there, I lack space in an apartment and animals that wont be kind to my albums. I have them in a storage closet and pull them out to add in what I buy through the winter.
I’m a year late to the party on this channel. I’ve been collecting for a couple years; and luckily some other friends told me to use Discogs early on. So I’ve been using it since the beginning.
What I DID do this year, though, was put my collection into a Spotify playlist so I can pull it up anytime I’m away from home (which is pretty often). That took about 15-20 hours.
It was a ton of work to get started but now every time I buy something, it goes in Discogs and Spotify now. If you have the time and patience, the result’s well worth the effort in my opinion.
wow...really informative....i only have archived what i bought off of discogs so far....when i pass, my wife will probably just bring whatever i have left of my collection to a local used record store and sell off everything....(except ones i specify to leave for others...)....right now, except for some of my jazz albums, there's not much left worth much....however...i still cherish my 'coleman collection'...peace to you always my friend...rocky
I must use discogs (use collectorz as well); if not I would never find a record, seeing as how I store the next one bought in the next available space. No physical organizinfg for me---way too much of a pain. Use the editable fields in the software to keep track which cube a record is in. 1717 albums here.
Luckily I started cataloguing my collection on Discogs about 200 records into collecting.
hey Mazzy, im discogsing my collection these days and i actually kinda enjoy it but I have to be in the right mood. Friday evenings staying in with a few drinks and a smoke works well! I appreciate also for buying records as I have no record shop in town, and finding a bargain is even possible...in fact, im expecting Satanic Maj Mexican release retitled A 2,000 Años Luz de La Tierra any day!! Great video cheers
Your point about a father passing away suddenly and then the collection being left to family members it's home! It's taking me five years to figure out what or how to deal with my father's collection. It's nowhere near on the level that you are at! However, your video is inspired me to try to catalog his collection. Thanks for making this one
Interesting topic Mazzy. I have rarely used the Discogs app, perhaps because it is wonky. I am used to doing everything through a desktop computer. I think that I am 95% complete with my effort. Now I am backfilling the 150+ albums that I don't seem to exist in Discogs, yet. Do you plan to do the CDs after you finish the vinyl? Thanks, Chris
Discogs is also very important as a registration of artists and personal that worked in music production. I have been spending long time including musicians, songwriters and technical personal of Brazilian albums. Therefore this information becomes available for everyone and could be used in historical research.
Norman, you are one of the few online with the knowledge and love of the music you present. Also you describe the art of Archiving nicely: as it should be for any large Record Collection. I think, that any record collection beyond 500 LPs and 400 45rpm is a large collection. I have just illustrated my collection to you in the example, so I am verging on passing that mark. However, what I have now is my fourth record collection, of this size and musical expanse over the span of fifty years. Stay safe and go well.
Mazzy good video as always . I m your age and have 20,000 + LP s. I wouldn ‘t no where the f**k to start!
Let’s get organized.. organized.. wow that’s a lot of inputting.I’ve been selling on Discogs for a few years. Trying to figure out which of the pressings that I have by trying to decipher the dead wax scrolls is always an adventure. Listing something that has never been addressed is can adventure as well and judged by highest scholars. Accuracy and minutia to its limits.
I could write a book about my usage of Discogs, LOL! I started cataloging my collection when I got back into vinyl at the beginning of the pandemic, and I had NO idea the rabbit hole I was entering...I have been collecting for nearly 50 years and I had NO IDEA what "deadwax" was or what details were there until I started this, and now I can't stop...dammit anyway! The one thing I wish Discogs had was allowing you to upload from other databases and then sorting out to match - my CD's are all done on a different program, and now i'm going to have to start them from scratch one of these days. Any chance you can post that cheat sheet the Archivist made for you? ::wink wink:: Great video as always, Mazzy - I have learned so much from you over the past two years, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, I'm sure...
You'll get there Mazzy - one cube at a time sweet Jesus.
On my shelves I made a separate section for Jazz, but I'm thinking of going back to combining them all A-Z. I liked seeing strange pairings like the Cocteau Twins next to Coleman Hawkins.
A lot of the big contract US pressing plant were pretty poor. We always liked a Porky Prime Cut or TimTom over here ;-)
Congrats, and good luck on your next 2000+ :)
Discogs is a can of worms, but so useful. I started 5 years ago and am about 80% done with 8200 titles added. It's been a chore, especially for vinyl and popular titles on CD with all the individual variants, but it's so rewarding when it's finally done. I don't really like the phone/tablet version. I can work with the regular web/PC version a lot quicker.
Thanks for sharing your collection in this way. I have taken more than one or two "flyers" based on albums you've mentioned over the time I've been a subscriber. So far? not a dud yet. Now I can proceed at my pace reviewing all that you have archived. Based on my prior experinece this will be time well spend. Greatly appreciated!!!!!!
Hi Mazzy, great video, second project for the cd's?/cassetes? I did put everything but my collection is a lot smaller
I also use Discog to keep track of how much I spend and find tracking prices another fun aspect of curating my collection. This helps to earmark worthless duds for removal from the collection which is a must when building a better collection in a limited space.
Thanks for this, Mazzy - really interesting to hear about your journey into the world of Discogs. I totally agree re: the jankiness of the iOS app. I tend to stick to web based app via Safari, even on my iPad Pro, as it offers a far more stable and feature rich experience.
I am so impressed . I thought I was doing good with 250 albums. I did just start 3 mos. ago, so wish me luck!! Love it
I'm doing the same thing with my collection and looking forward to my milestone(s)...I calculated that if I can do 30-40 entries a day go forward, i'll finish the rest of it in one year. Congrats on your progress!
Interesting. Trying to sort one specific artist in your collection will also bring up others, which is annoying. Mostly an incredible app though. I look forward to you getting all your Beatles inputed!!!!
oh forgot to mention that while I'm cataloging in Discogs at the same time I'm scribbling on little white stickers the same basic info provided and sticking that on the top of the back of the outer plastic sleeve. I like seeing that info later on down the line when I pull the record out.
Great video! Big job! Incredible, fantastic! I immediately realized that I needed to enter into the database all the new publications that I buy. This makes the job easier! I never dreamed of a large collection like yours. I can’t even imagine how big and hard work it is. It is worthy of respect and admiration. The most difficult thing in this business is when you find the matrix number on your carrier but it is not in the database. It is very tiring - constantly checking all positions. But when you make progress, you get real pleasure.
Way to go, Mazzy! My goal is to be up to date on Discogs in Summer 2022 (LPS, 45s, CDs, and cassettes). I have been lagging on it. You have truly inspired me. - Heather
Good video, and I finally have my collection in Discogs this past year, but nowhere near the amount of records you had to deal with. I thought I was going to go blind searching the dead wax. I finally started using a magnifying glass which helped, but still frustrating, depending on the lighting. I’m sure most who watch your channel know about discogs and cataloguing their collection, but if not, discussing the dead wax stamped or hand written numbers is a great topic to expand on.