Cataloguing My Prog Collection

^^ Paul, would it be worth selling some CDs you don't listen to any more on eBay, in order to fund a growing Prog collection?

RockHound wrote: I’ve always been rather anal retentive about organizing and cataloging my collection. For physical media, Rock and Jazz are organized alphabetically by artist and chronologically within artists. I organize classical by composer, type of work, and then either chronologically or by opus or catalog number. Schubert and Mozart can be confusing in this regard, whereas Bach and Beethoven are easy to organize.

I’ve always been rather anal retentive about organizing and cataloging my collection. For physical media, Rock and Jazz are organized alphabetically by artist and chronologically within artists. I organize classical by composer, type of work, and then either chronologically or by opus or catalog number. Schubert and Mozart can be confusing in this regard, whereas Bach and Beethoven are easy to organize.

Digital media are organized in iTunes, which with a little elbow grease works really well. I have spent countless hours managing and editing ID3 tags to get things the way I want them.

I have spent so much of my life curating rock sample and fossil collections, that curating my music is just a natural outgrowth of that activity. But I’ll tell you this-organizing music is much easier than organizing the biosphere, which is quite subjective and requires application of stochastic principles. If you think defining progressive rock is hard, you should try organizing brachiopods for size!

Edited by RockHound - September 02 2022 at 01:05

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Jared wrote: Psychedelic Paul wrote: Jared wrote: Paul, which 6 Barclay James Harvest albums do you own?   Barclay James Harvest and Other Stories Everyone is Everybody Else Time Honoured Ghosts Octoberon XII Mockingbird (compilation) EiEE is my fave... Octoberon, probably my 2nd..  My favourite BJH album is Once Again, so I'll have to keep a look out for it when I set off for HMV once again.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: I'd Love to own more Neo Prog CD albums but they're very hard to find at charity shops and car boot sales. They're about as rare as finding Black Sabbath's albums at a Christian charity shop - not that I've looked for them there though.

^^ I agree with you Paul, a lot of 90's Neo (other than Marillion) is either out of print and goes for silly money, or in some cases can be bought new for £11- 14, but very rarely comes up 2nd hand... 

Edited by Jared - August 31 2022 at 10:11

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: I'm similar at 58 Symphonic out of 2,300, I have 9 Neo albums, my first was probably Sanguine Hun - Diving Bell At least you have three times more Neo Prog albums than I do.

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: I'm similar at 58 Symphonic out of 2,300, I have 9 Neo albums, my first was probably Sanguine Hun - Diving Bell

This is something that is probably only of interest to me personally, but I noticed exactly 2% of my total albums (64 out of 3200) are Symphonic Prog, so I have a lot of catching up to do in exploring the vast progosphere. 

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - August 31 2022 at 05:16

Psychedelic Paul wrote: David_D wrote: And I've totally forgotten the Eclectic Prog albums that I'm fond of, which are more than Folk and Psych/Space,  so there's surely some difference concerning which sub-genres are my fave comparing to yours, Paul. Admittedly, I only have 19 Eclectic Prog albums out of 3200 CD's in total, which works out at precisely 0.59%, so I just need to buy one more King Crimson album to reach 0.6% of the total for Eclectic Prog..

Edited by David_D - August 30 2022 at 16:32