Keep condition notes on your vinyl

A grade on its own is vague six months later. A sentence is better. 'Very Good Plus, writing on the A-side label, seam split at the top' is a note you can use when you are selling, insuring, or simply deciding whether to play it.

Condition notes are private. They are for you, a buyer, or an insurer you choose to tell. They are not a public grade, and they do not appear on a profile.

Write the fault while the record is out of the sleeve. The next time you see it, you will remember the music and forget the writing on the label. The note is there so you do not have to.

The price guide does not read that sentence and change itself. It uses your typed price if you entered one, otherwise a middle asking price for an ordinary used copy. A wrecked record and a clean one can share a guide until you type your own figure.

That is deliberate. Nobody has looked at your copy. If the condition should change the total, type the price you want that record to contribute. Leave the grade in the note so you remember why.

Open the record and add the condition with any note you need. Grade the copies where it matters, and leave the rest until you play them. You do not have to finish the shelf in one afternoon.

If you export a CSV from Account, keep it with any papers you would show an insurer. The note is more useful beside the title than a grade remembered later.