Vinyl Resurgence

Folks,

I've updated the Discogs API script to fix the album art downloads since they have updated their API. As of late Jan, you were not able to download album art when you posted a new record to your collection. This has been fixed. Enjoy.

Interesting copy with supposed original RCA sleeve. $45 bucks, not too shabby:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dave-Matthews-Band-single-Space-Between-Did-promo-vinyl-record-45-7-rare-/320792161864?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4ab0b3ee48

Happy RSD everyone! Here are some links for RSD 2011. Hope you had a good one and pick up some nice finds; I picked up Introducing the Beatles and Yesterday and Today! What did you find?

• http://www.recordstoreday.com/Page/984
• http://www.recordstoreday.com/Home
• http://thedependent.ca/life-and-culture/events/record-store-day/
• www.stereophile.com/content/record-store-day-2011
• http://www.vvinyl.com/s/record_store_day/
• http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/02/an-early-look-at-record-store-day-2011/
• http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/04/16/record-store-day-2011/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Record_Store_Day#Record_Store_Day_2011

The 'Collections' feature is a way for you to show off your record collection on the site.

See it here: www.vinylresurgence.com/collections.php

You can import an excel file of your records by using the collection importer tool here: www.vinylresurgence.com/collection_importer.php

Currently working on:

• Album Art / Album Art Selector
• Album Information

I am currently getting album art information from discogs.com

Please use this forum to report problems and or feature requests.

Let's keep this thread for discussion ways to keep our vinyl clean as well as recommendation for products for that use.

Generally acceptable methods

• http://www.discomusic.com/101-more/6193_0_7_0_C/ - Record cleaning machines, vinyl brushes, etc information.

Somewhat controversial methods

• http://www.gallagher.com/clean_records.htm - with soap, paint brush, and water
• http://www.audiokarma.org/forums/showthread.php?t=99837 - with glue

Products

• Highly recommended record washer on amazon
• Highly recommended anti-static brush on amazon
• Stanton brush and cleaning solution on amazon

Reply to this thread to add your recommendation.

I agree with you there too, but in my mind I have always kinda put DJs in their own category...vinyl is part of the trade.

Thanks for the feedback on the tool --I will use that to improve it.

-I know what you're saying about the white stripes --real expensive (but great) stuff sometimes. I like the kit with the record player that I saw in /r/vinyl the other day. Slick stuff.

You know the more I think about this, the more I wonder if the phenomenon of scratching on early hip-hop and house music was another area (besides the skinny Limey guys with guitars area) where vinyl kept its head just above water in the late 80's and early 90's until the real resurgence started.  They had a turntable (well, two turntables and a microphone) and they were spinning and scratching the old stuff, so there must have been some guys into that scene who were putting their new stuff out on vinyl as well.  I don't know any big electronic or hip-hop heads, but it sounds plausible.

Album art would be incredible.  Might be hellish time-consuming though!

It did take me a wee while to do the import but none of that was because of you.  I didn't have my own spreadsheet, I'd been cheating by keeping my collection on Discogs.  That's why it's not 100 percent up to date, because if no one had created the record on Discogs, I wasn't able to add it to my collection there.  But they let you export your collection data as a csv, so there weren't too many problems.  

Believe it or not my biggest problem came from something you never could have predicted - my keyboard transposes the two characters for vertical bar and the broken vertical bar!  So I'd type out one of them and get the other.  Took me a good half hour of serious head scratching.  Then my version of Notepad wouldn't transfer over the vertical bar delimiter, so I had to download an alternative called Notepad++.  Hah!  Like I said, not your fault, and I got there in the end.

Re: The White Stripes - there's a dangerous band to get a hankering for in terms of collecting.  My mouth was watering at their Great White Northern Lights boxset, it was absolutely stunning, but so so expensive.  Not in the collection as you can see!

Edit: I should have said thank you for the job well done on the help doc.

Excellent! Now that's I've got some more data to play with, I can make some more features and functionality. I hope to get album art in there soon.

Are there any features you'd like to see in the future? Was there anything that you saw that could be made easier?

I am also working on functionality where you can export your collection back out to an excel file whenever you want.

Thanks for your feedback and nice collection!

Edit: Loving the Waits and White Stripes collection!