Music Database

While refining my new "CD collection catalogue" this weekend, it suddenly occurred to me what a "nerdy" thing it was of me in the first place to put together a database for the classical music I have on CDs. However, may I say to my excuse that when your CD collection measures hundreds of titles (actually, just under 500 classical CDs), such a catalogue can be really handy.

This has been in the works though since soon after I started collecting compact discs in the beginning of the ‘90s. First as scribblings on a piece of paper, then as several pages of systematical CD descriptions in a notebook, then as an impressive Excel file documenting the contents of the biggest part of my CDs as they came, and finally exported to MSAccess and trimmed into (almost) normalised tables.

With this up and running I will be able to tell you in a whim which composers I collect the most, of which pieces I have most versions, whether I seem to be more into orchestral or chamber music, from which periods my music is … And best of all, if something happens to my collection, it may be possible to partly replace it, and I will know the approximative value of it should I wish to be indemnized by my insurance company. Pooh, what a relief!