Wonderful news dear readers! We’ve reached a new milestone at Innerspace. We’ve come so far!
Our Humble Beginnings…
Back in the summer of 2011, I decided that I could do more than I was accomplishing with my text-based Audio Library Excel spreadsheet. I spent the summer researching and testing all major music cataloging softwares. By that August, I’d built my first OrangeCD database which was leaps and bounds ahead of the spreadsheet.
The catalog continued and grew for a few years and in May of 2014 we took the next step and moved from a static local DB to the cloud. Discogs.com became the new home of Innerspace, but was limited to our vinyl-format collections.
I still wanted to do more. There are many complete discographic archives in our library which I’d love users to be able to access. Current copyright law unfortunately does not support such a model so, for now, my media server remains strictly for my personal access.
But last night we succeeded in unifying our digital collections with our vinyl catalog. Now our entire library is viewable, searchable, and sortable by any user-specified criteria – all in one place, and free on the web where anyone can browse it.
Better still, there is a shared reference table of our top label and artist archives consisting of 50-375 albums per collection. These collections comprise 37% of the albums in our library, so it’s an excellent summary point-of-reference.
The searchable catalog can also be mapped visually, with larger point sizes for artists with the largest collections.
Check out our new About page – the new launch screen for our complete library!
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