Subj : Organizing collections
To   : Ogg
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Sun Feb 18 2024 09:26:18

  Re: Organizing collections
  By: Ogg to Nigel Reed on Sun Feb 18 2024 11:13:00

 > There's noone you can deligate some of the sorting or de-
 > stickering to?

Not really. Come on over, if you like ;)

 > Maybe just start with the easy ones that don't have any
 > stickers blocking the barcodes?

Easier said that done. That means more time sorting through, new piles, etc. Still no guarantee the barcode will scan. Depends on the state of the plastic.

 > I have a similar dilemma. I promised myself that everytime I
 > touched a CD to play it, I would then register it into Discogs.
 > That went well for a handful of CDs, but the system fell apart
 > when I wanted to play a CD *after* the computers were all shut
 > down for the night and the pile of "to-do" discs was too much
 > to do later!

I just ripped them while I was working. It's pretty automatic. Obviously not everything I have is ripped.

 > The whole process COULD work if I had ample HDD space to rip
 > each CD before or after I play it.  That process would be an
 > easy way to file the pertinent info automatically.  But.. I
 > don't have the HDD space for the project.

Just get yourself a 4TB hard drive or something.

I have almost 50,000 mp3 files on a 3TB partition of which 2.6T is used, 1.5T of that space is used for videos.
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