ViniVault/Formats
Catalogue a Britpop vinyl collection
Britpop shelves mix albums, limited 7-inches, and compilations. ViniVault keeps the format you actually filed.
Singles and the album
The album is the easy row. The singles with the extra tracks are the ones to write down before the sleeves fade, because those B-sides are often the reason the 7-inch was worth keeping, and they are the first thing memory drops.
First presses and later pressings share artwork more often than people expect. The label tells them apart: the catalogue number, the country, the year on the vinyl rather than the year the song was a hit.
Limited sleeves, posters, and coloured vinyl belong in the note on the copy you own. A later look at the album title will not recover them.
Albums, singles, and the missing ones
Add what you have, in one vault, so a search for the band finds the album and the singles together. A note can say 7-inch or LP. The shelf does not need a separate app for the singles.
The wishlist is for the ones still missing. Keep them off the shelf, or the value and the 'do I own it?' check will treat a want as a record in the house. Statistics can group the records you do own by decade, once they are added.
How this works in ViniVault
Search the album or the single, pick the pressing that matches the label, and save it. Upload a photo of a limited sleeve if the saved artwork is the ordinary cover.
Type the price you paid when you remember the shop. A 1990s single bought for a pound should not have to inherit a guide price you never spent.
Questions
- Can decades show how much 1990s vinyl I have?
- Yes. Statistics groups the shelf by decade after the records are added. The count describes the records in the vault, not the ones you have not catalogued.
- Should the singles be listed on the album?
- Keep each record you own as its own row. Mention the album in the note on a single if you want that link. The extra tracks then stay attached to the single.