Track stylus hours while you catalogue plays

Collectors who play records every night put more hours on a stylus than the calendar suggests. A counter is calmer than trying to remember the month you last changed it, or the cartridge you meant to replace before Christmas.

This sits beside the collection. It does not change what a record is worth, and it does not grade the vinyl. A worn stylus is a reason to be gentle with the records. It is not a line in the price guide.

You do not have to log every side. Log the sessions you want counted. A rough total is already more than memory, which tends to remember the last loud weekend and forget the quiet weeks.

Listening history is the list of what you played. Stylus hours are the wear on the needle. They answer different questions. One helps you find a record. The other helps you decide the needle has done its shift.

When you fit a new stylus, retire the old one and install the new one. The hours belong to that cartridge. Leaving the old total on the new needle makes the next change harder to judge.

Open Stylus hours from Discover and log the plays you care about. The catalogue of records stays the main shelf. Condition notes are still the place for a mark on a particular disc.

Nothing here is sold to you from the catalogue. The counter is a log inside the account, next to the care notes you already keep.