CDPEDIA PROBLEMS ANDROID

One of the reasons that I stopped buying vinyl in the 1990s was poor pressings and dire sounding compilation albums. Given that they cost 4 times more than the CD that they are derived from, can anyone spell “sucker”. Anyway, many, although not all, sound poor. Anything released prior to 1963 in Europe is off copyright and can be re-issued by anyone (including me): however, these record labels don’t and won’t have access to the original masters, or even high resolution digital files (unless downloaded from HDtracks or equivalent. are copyright expired recordings presumably from CD sources. This could not be further from the truth: the majority of these reissues on Jazz trax or Jazzwax etc. Most newbies would be easily deceived into believing that this was an official reissue by the original record company derived from the original master tapes. You find a copy of the album at a reasonable price (19.99) and a big sticker boasting 180g premium vinyl, direct metal mastering etc. The con works like this: you go into a record shop (principally for me Tower records in Dublin) with a list of albums that you want to buy: for example Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing Lounge. I have bought a good few duds over the past few years, mostly jazz. The quality of these is, to say the least, Variable. I also have lots and lots of new release records, as I don’t really see the point of buying CDs if you can get the (more valuable) vinyl for a couple of euro more (and they often throw the CD in for free) and I have piles and piles of vinyl re-issues. The majority of the old and second hand stuff were original or early re-press UK releases of relatively popular albums. What has been illuminating about the catalog process is just how variable my vinyl collection is. I think that the collectoz subscription thing is a bit much, as most products offer you lifetime upgrades for a premium up front (the exception is the annoying but excellent J River Media Centre). It would be SO much easier if you could search by (OBVIOUS) catalog number (as you can in discos – and then it is a piece of cake). I usually don’t bother, I find the correct titles and album art and then edit the information from discogs. In collectorz you have to search for an album by artist and title, and then clumsily work your way through the 20 or so versions that it finds to find the correct one. One would think that collectorz and discogs would be fully compatible. You cannot catalog your collection without it. Discogs, is, obviously, awesome – although an iOS app would be the bomb if it existed. But I can only have one on my phone, so I have had to use the export solution to create excel files of each of my collections. It has 3 problems: you cannot have tabbed libraries – I need to have separate libraries for vinyl, cds, cassettes and 24 bit files.

CDPEDIA PROBLEMS ANDROID

Music collector is a great way of creating a versatile database of your collection, which can be then exported to your iPhone or android device. Also, there are many, many different versions of records out there, and some are better than others. The major reason for creating a catalog of records is to avoid duplicates, which appears to be a bigger problem for me with vinyl records than CDs (don’t know why). So it was time, using music collector and discogs to catalog it. I don’t have a huge vinyl collection – about 1000 LPs purchased over 35 years, half of which I bought since 2009.

Cdpedia problems