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  4. I got Compulsion Songs by The Lucid Dream, but I only have around 30 things in my collection on there, which are things I’ve bought on there plus a few things I added to their database, cos I spotted they were missing and wanted to see how easy it was to add things – quite easy, although I made a schoolboy error that was easily corrected. I’ve been considering putting my entire collection on there, as I refer to Discogs about something pretty much daily. It will take ages though, if I want to allocate each disc to the correct catalogue number. I have a lot of patience when it comes to daft ideas I come up with, but with this one I can’t help feeling that I have far better things to do with the weeks that it will take me (cos I’d end up adding everything that isn’t already on their database). Maybe later in the year when the house is all sorted…although now it’s in my mind I’m probably not going to be able to rest until I’ve done it!

  5. https://www.discogs.com/Various-Nice-Up-The-Dance/release/185197

    I put all my stuff on Discogs a few years back in the evenings of a cold (and wet) winter fortnight in New Zealand.
    Once you get the bulk of it done it’s quite easy to just keep adding the bits you buy as you buy them.

    It’s really useful for me because we’ve moved a couple of times since then and I’ve got everything logged. Azerbaijan only allow you to take 200 CDs into the country* so the rest had to go into storage for 18 months. It was great to know what was where and what I had when I couldn’t physically see them!

    You can easily request it all on an excel spreadsheet which is useful too.

    *that was an absolute horror of a job selecting what was going into storage and what was moving with us. I didn’t know at the time that we would only be in Baku for a relatively short period so it seemed like I was saying goodbye to a lot of stuff forever!

    • I already have everything listed on an excel spreadsheet, but I haven’t made a list of label/catalogue number/etc, so to do it properly I’d have to pull them all down, shelf by shelf. I have just been through every disc, to replace broken cases and to pick out any discs that are heavily marked, as my Marantz CD player is quite sensitive. I ended up having to replace about half a dozen, but only Power by Ice-T cost more than £2-3. And I’m just about to go over the shelves to try to work out the cost to replace them all, as it’s insurance renewal time.

      I was wondering whether logging them into Discogs would do the adding up for me, but they would only really be able to give me the average resale value, which is not necessarily what the insurance is based on. I look after my CDs, so should I need to replace them I would want the replacements in a similar condition, I.e. replacing most of them with new items. The disc grading criteria on Discogs, as I have found out in the past, is a lot looser than that on eBay, so I only buy new or like new on Discogs.

  8. War ‎– The World Is A Ghetto
    13 For Sale from £2.54

    One day, after the collection has been thinned a little – most likely after the next house move – I’m going to grit my teeth and stick all my vinyl into Discogs. Until then, I’ve just got a fairly random hodge-podge of stuff in there – some things that I was curious to get a value for, and some that just happened to close to hand when I set up the account.

    Holy crap! The *median* value of a copy of Unknown Pleasures is now £107.14!

  11. I presume that as Discogs is also for selling physical CDs, the collection logging only really works for physical product – I.e. you would you be able to catalogue downloaded music ?

  12. A bit of a tangent – I received a 10″ album in the post today that I’ve been looking for for about three years. It’s not on Discogs and there’s only one online reference to it elsewhere. It almost doesn’t exist… On Doug Dobell’s 77 label, released in a numbered edition of 100 circa September 1958 – featuring Big Pete Deuchar recorded live in New Orleans with Kid Thomas Valentine and other local jazzers. The first copy I’d encountered for sale online in those three years (on eBay last week) – No.17. 🙂

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