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L.P. Cataloging Sytem Advice

I have a pleasant problem that I hope I can get some suggestions on solving.

My friend's brother just moved out of his mother's house (well he is in his 40's!). He had a large L.P. collection that would not fit in jis new apartment. He was going to throw everything in the trash but instead I offered to take his albums for the price of shipping Chicago to California.

Ten days later 27 boxes of L.P.s showed up!

This is a 1500+ L.P. collection of breathtaking ecclecticity. Everything from mainstream rock like U2, Eagles etc. to obscure rock like the Pixies, Dumptrucks, Red Lory/Yellow Lory to a nice Jazz collection to a classical (the entire Funk and Wagnals series for example) collection. Most of it in VG+ to NM condition. Breathtaking!

The question is: Rather than invent the wheel, does anyone out there with a similer type collection have advice on how to sort such a collection so it makes sense and, most importantly, one can find things????

Thanks in advance.
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am_dial
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I created a simple database using FileMaker Pro software. This way I could control what fields I wanted (e.g., in my case, I added--in addition to usual stuff such as title and catalog #--fields to note condition, whether the record has been cleaned yet, vinyl color, etc.). By using a database, I can sort through all of the records any number of ways, or find all records by a particular band or on a particular label. It took several months to get everything entered into the database, but now when I bring a new record into the house the first thing I do is catalog it.

By the way, if you ever want to get rid of any of that "obscure rock" stuff, just drop me a line...

Good luck!
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