12,000 and counting...

[vinylmaster]

Hey, all. It's been a while, but I'm up to 12,000 entries and I continue to add on. I'll tell you...it's been interesting, trying out different things, and learning about the different features of OrangeCD...And recent backups of my databases are a good thing! It'd be a shame to lose what I worked so hard for. It's surprising how many small items add up (and I've barely touched the 7-inch vinyl!). If I had my druthers, though, I wish I could easily copy a database entry, and transfer all of my information within the entry into a separate database, with a couple clicks. Some items and artists are harder to categorize, so I keep two separate listings for the same item in different databases. For instance, if I have a database for swing music, and a database for rock, and I have an artist who's part swing, part rock n' roll, I'll keep the same listing in each database, for easy reference. I wish I could just copy one entry, and transfer it into a second database easier. I just search for the same item again, but it feels as if I'm doing twice the work, but I'll do it, until something changes. There should be an "add entry from separate database" tab on a drop-down menu somewhere. Or a "copy entry" and "paste entry" when I right-click over it, and everything would get transferred when I pasted the entry into the second database...It's a thought, anyway.

But, I rant. I have found that the more I use OrangeCD, the more things I learn along the way. Have you guys found any interesting discoveries, from poking around and trial and error, that have helped make things easier? Have any of you had an "I didn't know I could do that!" moment?

[Gagliem]

Not sure if I understood clearly what you're asking for... but I copy some items from a database to another using

Database -> Manage Database -> Import
then OCD shows the explorer dialog to browse and select the database OCD file, then you go next and select the radiobutton "Selected albums", so you can select a single or multiple entries and then you go ahead and confirm, so your antries are copied from a DB to the other one

[pmckeealaska]

I'd be curious to know if anyone else inputs as much information as I do when I enter a new album. I like details so I put all of the recording info (producers, engineers, mixing, etc.) along with all of the musicians involved and recording studio stuff as well. I would assume that those that buy a catalog software program would put at least some of this information in anyway, I'm just curious how many are as type A as I am! :)

[gurnemanz]

I'd be curious to know if anyone else inputs as much information as I do when I enter a new album. I like details so I put all of the recording info (producers, engineers, mixing, etc.) along with all of the musicians involved and recording studio stuff as well. I would assume that those that buy a catalog software program would put at least some of this information in anyway, I'm just curious how many are as type A as I am! :)
I don't enter the technical details you mention but usually put in as many contributing artists as possible, such as soloists in jazz or opera, orchestra, choir etc. I have a lot of classical songs with piano accompaniment and have added a custom tab "accompanist".
I am quite keen to get the genre right and sometimes have difficulty entering this accurately because many classical discs contain tracks of several genres. It is quite possible for a chamber music disc to contain, for example, a piano trio, a string quintet and a violin sonata. You can only enter the genre for the whole disc not separate tracks.

[BLOWERS]

Having a built-in 'track genre' field would be the ideal answer. But failing that, I have created a custom track field for this...

[cyberstasz1]

All I can say to 12,000 is an incredible WOW!! I'm just over 3,000 (data entry goes on) and it has much time + money involved. A collection like yours is worth more than most peoples homes! So, what size room do you have all these albums in? It sounds, pun intended :), as though you'd need a garage. I've been ripping all mine to a NAS device and can't wait to have instant track access anywhere (acts as a cloud drive) and anytime! A dream come true for me.

I do not enter too many technical details, just the basics... at least not yet anyway. Anyone out there in the MI, USA area interested in sharing/combining music collections to save a little money?

[vinylmaster]

Hey, all...Yes, I know about the Manage Database>Import function, and for those of you who haven't discovered it yet, that's a nice feature for transferring listings between databases. It has saved me a lot of time ,for sure. My issue, if you can call it that, was that there should be a more streamlined process for doing this, but I digress. Anyway, yes, I do need a garage. Everything is on heavy duty shelving, contained in specially marked boxes, but I do sometimes wish I had a garage for them. But the nice thing is, you can always build UP, even if you have a smaller space. Recently, I've even found a way to catalog 300 pieces of sheet music, too. As you can customize the database, I can add photos of the sheet music, the year published, and on a separate page, the publishers, writers and composers. One thing I've found that makes it easy is to catalog in spurts. One day, I'll work on the 70's jazz albums. Next day, I'll work on the sheet music. Then, the 12" dance singles. If I focus on a format and genre, say, and break up the work into smaller parts, I tend to accomplish more. But, the data entry goes on...

[dilute50]

Pretty Good program I'm at 10,620 I found A Few bugs the biggest one when I scan a wave file it sometimes won't put in all of the track lengths, I put in basic info, tracks,Lengths,year,artwork and notes if I have I have any overall it works pretty good

[Jazz_North]

The problem is most likely with the tags in the wav file itself. The wav tagging standard is not as thorough as that for mp3 or flac (or most anything else) and seems to have been inconsistently applied in any case (or not applied at all). And if the file has been tagged by one of the inconsistent programs (foobar2000, for example), OCD won't be able to read the data correctly.


Pretty Good program I'm at 10,620 I found A Few bugs the biggest one when I scan a wave file it sometimes won't put in all of the track lengths, I put in basic info, tracks,Lengths,year,artwork and notes if I have I have any overall it works pretty good

[Basilmusic]

I'd be curious to know if anyone else inputs as much information as I do when I enter a new album. I like details so I put all of the recording info (producers, engineers, mixing, etc.) along with all of the musicians involved and recording studio stuff as well. I would assume that those that buy a catalog software program would put at least some of this information in anyway, I'm just curious how many are as type A as I am! :)

I admire you in many ways, but decided not to spend all that time on the catalogue but do some LISTENING TO THE MUSIC. With classical music I maintain that you can't do two things at once if you want to really get to love this wonderful music.Having said that i have just lost a whole database called "New Boxes"..about 600 items, because I did not do a backup. It's called learning the hard way....back to the "new boxes"

[Joebugs]

I'd be curious to know if anyone else inputs as much information as I do when I enter a new album. I like details so I put all of the recording info (producers, engineers, mixing, etc.) along with all of the musicians involved and recording studio stuff as well. I would assume that those that buy a catalog software program would put at least some of this information in anyway, I'm just curious how many are as type A as I am! :)

Hi,

I too like to input as much information as possible: producers; engineers, mixing; mastering; artwork; design; musicians, label, purchased from; purchase amount; genres, number; barcode; composers, original year of release, etc. You can also listen to the CD when you're entering the data.

I have 1711 albums (2345 discs) in my collection.

[vinylmaster]

Hi,

I too like to input as much information as possible: producers; engineers, mixing; mastering; artwork; design; musicians, label, purchased from; purchase amount; genres, number; barcode; composers, original year of release, etc. You can also listen to the CD when you're entering the data.

I have 1711 albums (2345 discs) in my collection.

I also like to add a lot of information, but mostly I stick to artist, title (I'll note if album is a reissue, and checkmark if it's a promo), label, and year of release (if it's a reissue, then reissue year). For the most part, I stick to the actual year listed on the album or label, as to me, that is a lot more accurate than some of the listings I've seen. On 12" singles, I like to add the length of times for each track on the tracks tab (most of these are extended versions, and it helps to have that info handy). I sometimes get frustrated at having a particular release of an album, and I want to add the ACTUAL artwork, and every listing I find seems to have an alternate cover than the one I have! Import albums can be frustrating this way, as many of them were released with different cover art than their U.S. counterparts, or vice versa. Suffice to say, some of my album entries will not have any artwork attached, unless I take a picture of them myself! If there is any significant information about that particular album, I will add a few comments in the notes, and of course, a reference number and a location. Sometimes I'll add writer credits and producer credits, if they warrant some significance to me. AND the one thing that makes the catalogue entry process easy is that as I process the entries, I have the albums right next to me, and I often do some listening while I work, and it's a good time to preview items I haven't listened to yet. You can discover a lot that way, or sometimes you just want to hear an old favorite. Either way, sometimes you find yourself listening to the music, and you realize you got through a stack of albums fairly quickly. Much quicker than without the music, at least in my experience. Having a collection is no fun if you don't get to enjoy it once in a while, I say!!! And so...on I go with the data entry...