Not as massive as Zero Freitas collection
August 26, 2015 10:56 AM Subscribe
The vinyl collection of Aussie music aficionado Brad Miocevich: "Cataloging 30,000 LPs was a nightmare"... (Previously).
Disappointed to hear that he didn't build this collection himself; he bought it in one go, from a radio station. Still, what he's done with it is impressive. It's a very nice looking space. I hope he's got something in there besides the classic rock the article mentions, though.
posted by Fnarf at 11:47 AM on August 26, 2015
posted by Fnarf at 11:47 AM on August 26, 2015
A nightmare? Amateur. If I were doing it full time it might be a few years' worth of work, but it would be FUN. Cataloging owns.
posted by clavicle at 11:49 AM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by clavicle at 11:49 AM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
He bought the entire collection in one shot? He missed out on all the fun.
posted by davebush at 11:57 AM on August 26, 2015
posted by davebush at 11:57 AM on August 26, 2015
"No fucking way."
Whenever I had a bad day, I would just hole up and start working on the cataloging of all those. That would be so soothing.
posted by furnace.heart at 12:16 PM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
Whenever I had a bad day, I would just hole up and start working on the cataloging of all those. That would be so soothing.
posted by furnace.heart at 12:16 PM on August 26, 2015 [1 favorite]
The trick is to get caught up, then be religious about adding new albums when you buy them. I'm still in the getting caught up phase, but Discogs plus the MilkCrate App has helped. For albums after the bar code became standard, the job gets easier as the Discogs database has a good deal of bar scan information and the Apps enable phone camera scanning.
If you really want to go off the deep end, insert a regimen of not only cataloging, but also using a record cleaner on each album, replacing worn sleeves, adding dust covers, and, for a final insanity, high bit rate ripping each album with custom track breaks and cleanup of pops and background hiss without losing fidelity. That right there will turn you into a hermit.
posted by Muddler at 1:01 PM on August 26, 2015
If you really want to go off the deep end, insert a regimen of not only cataloging, but also using a record cleaner on each album, replacing worn sleeves, adding dust covers, and, for a final insanity, high bit rate ripping each album with custom track breaks and cleanup of pops and background hiss without losing fidelity. That right there will turn you into a hermit.
posted by Muddler at 1:01 PM on August 26, 2015
I still suspect his collection would be dwarfed by that of L.A.'s Barry Hansen, who curated the weirder parts of his massive collection in the '60s to do a weekly radio show as Dr. Demento. (And as I have said before, one of my proudest moments in radio in the '70s was showing Dr. D a record he did not already have. He borrowed it, taped it, played it on his show and returned the original in an autographed protective sleeve.) When you add what he must have on tape from the pre-digital age (that's how Weird Al sent him his first several 'hits'), his archive must be like the last scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark.
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:55 PM on August 26, 2015
posted by oneswellfoop at 1:55 PM on August 26, 2015
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