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So, my folks have had to move into an assisted living facility, which doesn't have the room that their 5 bedroom house has (which they are keeping, but no one is currently living there). As a result, I am now in possession of my dad's record and tape collection. So, I have started the process of digitizing them all. I just recently finished my own record collection (which included about 1500 albums, 800 cassettes, and 2000 CDs - all converted to high quality MP3's and loaded on my phone's SD card - I now carry around about 50,000 songs with me everywhere I go).
Anyway, my dad has about 1100 singles (33's, 45's, and 78's), as well as about 2300 "albums", which includes long play albums, as well as EP collections (again 33's, 45's, and 78's, and a bunch of cassettes, most of which are in the "Old Radio" genre).
As is my practice, I have captured all the titles in my tracking spreadsheet (where I keep track of what I have and haven't done) and I have created album art for every single one of them (I use my phone to take a picture of the album art and save as .jpg, ultimately to serve as the album art for the MP3's. For those that didn't have album art, I found DISCOGS .com a great resource, especially for difficult to find albums.
I am in the process of recording everything (with DCArt10, of course). I'm about 90% through all the singles, and almost all the 78's. I'll hit the EP's next, then on to the vinyl albums and cassette tapes. Once I have everything recorded (which I'm guessing will take a year or two, depending upon how diligent I am), I'll start "cleaning" the recordings and converting the albums to "virtual" CD's (I use Nero to create a .NRG file, which can then be virtually mounted as an audio CD, and that makes it easy to rip to MP3, rather than a track at a time). Then on to MP3 and the associated tagging and adding album art, which will then go on my phone for me to take with me. Everything gets backed up in two locations.
It's a labor of love and I"m looking forward to it. I'm listening to stuff I haven't heard in a long time, many of the titles I grew up with from when I lived at home. Many are also records that were mine, but I guess I had left them at the house when I left home for college and the Army.
Fun times.
Anyway, my dad has about 1100 singles (33's, 45's, and 78's), as well as about 2300 "albums", which includes long play albums, as well as EP collections (again 33's, 45's, and 78's, and a bunch of cassettes, most of which are in the "Old Radio" genre).
As is my practice, I have captured all the titles in my tracking spreadsheet (where I keep track of what I have and haven't done) and I have created album art for every single one of them (I use my phone to take a picture of the album art and save as .jpg, ultimately to serve as the album art for the MP3's. For those that didn't have album art, I found DISCOGS .com a great resource, especially for difficult to find albums.
I am in the process of recording everything (with DCArt10, of course). I'm about 90% through all the singles, and almost all the 78's. I'll hit the EP's next, then on to the vinyl albums and cassette tapes. Once I have everything recorded (which I'm guessing will take a year or two, depending upon how diligent I am), I'll start "cleaning" the recordings and converting the albums to "virtual" CD's (I use Nero to create a .NRG file, which can then be virtually mounted as an audio CD, and that makes it easy to rip to MP3, rather than a track at a time). Then on to MP3 and the associated tagging and adding album art, which will then go on my phone for me to take with me. Everything gets backed up in two locations.
It's a labor of love and I"m looking forward to it. I'm listening to stuff I haven't heard in a long time, many of the titles I grew up with from when I lived at home. Many are also records that were mine, but I guess I had left them at the house when I left home for college and the Army.
Fun times.
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