I'm very (painfully) slowly ripping my massive CD collection into mp3 files. Yes, I know mp3 is not the best way, but I'm not actually getting rid of any of the discs themselves, and I don't have enough digital storage to keep them all in lossless format yet. And I don't have enough physical storage space to keep them in my living area, so it's into boxes they go! Anyways, that's not what this is about. I was actually interested in what other people do with regards to keeping some kind of list of their ripped CDs.
I've been doing it in a pretty cumbersome way, using two spreadsheets that I'm keeping in GoogleApps. By the way, these are shareable, if anybody with a Google account wanted to see them. I'm using two, because one is a list by CD... showing me that I've only ripped 114 of my probably around-3000 collection. Ouch. The other spreadsheet is by composer+work. Needless to say, this one has quite a bit more than 114 lines already. In both spreadsheets, the label, their proprietary catalog#, the orchestra/ensemble, conductor, soloist(s) are to be found, so there is a lot of duplication between the two.
I'm not sure that I really want to simplify it beyond what I have, even though it takes forever. I really do like having all this information. But, I'm still interested in how other people are dealing with this, or even other tips or pointers or experiences on ripping a CD or LP collection in general. For instance, does anybody know a pretty good large-ish box I can buy multiple of, so that I can store these in something better than collapsing cardboard?
I've been doing it in a pretty cumbersome way, using two spreadsheets that I'm keeping in GoogleApps. By the way, these are shareable, if anybody with a Google account wanted to see them. I'm using two, because one is a list by CD... showing me that I've only ripped 114 of my probably around-3000 collection. Ouch. The other spreadsheet is by composer+work. Needless to say, this one has quite a bit more than 114 lines already. In both spreadsheets, the label, their proprietary catalog#, the orchestra/ensemble, conductor, soloist(s) are to be found, so there is a lot of duplication between the two.
I'm not sure that I really want to simplify it beyond what I have, even though it takes forever. I really do like having all this information. But, I'm still interested in how other people are dealing with this, or even other tips or pointers or experiences on ripping a CD or LP collection in general. For instance, does anybody know a pretty good large-ish box I can buy multiple of, so that I can store these in something better than collapsing cardboard?