How do you store and catalog your vinyl?

I have a problem shelving my CD box sets such as Mercury, RCA Living Stereo and Deccas with 60 CDs per box.  Also, I have many Warner and other 15 to 40 CD box sets.  The latter box sets generally fit better in my CD rack/Can-Am metal cases as they are packed into flip type boxes which are narrow and can be more easily manipulated than the long or pull up/open boxes of Mercury, RCA and Decca.  Yikes, too many CDs in long boxes.  Same with my Elvis box sets, really long and difficult to shelve.

Been a while but.

Finally got a week of downtime from work and after completing "some" of the honeydew list found time to make a start.

Decided to use Discogs as a lot of the hard work already done.

Actually quite interesting when you see where some of your vinyl came from, found I have a fair number of South American albums.

But it's a LONG haul... Lol.

At least I have made a start!

Hi,
i store them by genre followed by decade.
I have made my own excel pivot table where i can trace anything:
artist, title, genre, style, year, yer of release, comments, code, matrix, colour, weight, label, condition, country, ttl album, ttl lp, price.
Discogs was a good help especially for release dates and pricing.
It took me some time but it was fun, i will do the same for my CD collection.

After I looked over Discogs closely I decided it just was not worth the effort to create something of my own.

One of my primary goals was to have at hand information on present collection.
This way when in my LRS or thrift stores I can instantly check if i already own my proposed purchases!

The Discogs app works perfectly on my phone for that function.

Just have to complete it all....
Then my cassettes....
Then my CDs......
Then my R2R......

I "only" have about 670 LPs, but that's a huge leap from a couple years ago when I had just a few.   Storing and organizing has become a pressing problem.


I decided to use the discogs app to catalogue my collection. 



It's been a slog over the past few weeks doing this that's for sure!  But having finally finished last week I'm glad I did it.  Now I won't double-buy any more LPs (yup, done that!) and I know what all those shelves of LPs actually contain.


And now it's not egregious work to input any new LP via the app.  Most of them I buy from discogs, so it's just a matter of pressing a button "add to collection" when I receive it.    Otherwise, if it's new vinyl from somewhere else I can scan the bar code.


BTW, I've found these record dividers to be great.   They are stiff, look good, easy to write on with a white grease pencil, and I prefer the wedge-cut as it seems to take up less visual space:


https://www.amazon.com/30-Record-Divider-Cards-12NS13BK30DI/dp/B00BF7ESQY



But I face the problem of most music collectors:  How to organize, with the bedeviling issue of sub-categories.


For instance a lot of my collection is Library/Production music from the 70's/80's.  And I love synth-electronic music.



So when I have a synth-based Library album there are three possibly helpful categories I could put it in:


1. Library Music2. Electronica3. Old Synth Electronica (analog etc, a favorite genre).



In terms of physical storage, that presents a problem of which category in which to place it.


It SHOULDN'T present a problem with a good organizing app, because you'd THINK that such apps would allow you to organize via sub-categories, so I could put such albums in all three categories.  Unfortunately....and this blows my mind for an app made by the premier site for record collectors...there IS no option for sub-categories in the discogs site/app!    Talk about an annoying head-scratcher!


I've looked at other vinyl organizing apps, but unfortunately they are more cumbersome to use than the discogs app, and don't allow near the speed of inputting my collection.


So, until discogs wakes up and makes the app utility better, I'm still struggling through these issues.