Category: Blog
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If you collect techno, trance, or house, you know that vinyl labels are a beautiful, chaotic mess. Between the giant label logos, the tiny copyright warnings, the obscure remixer credits, and the complete lack of standardised formatting, building a scanner to read physical records is a nightmare. Standard barcode scanners fail on white labels, and…
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Stand in front of your shelves. Hundreds of 12-inch’ techno, house and trance staring back at you. How do you organise them? Alphabetical? Genre? Label? Year of release? – Maybe you need to take a look at crAte
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If you read my last post, Solving the Shelf, you know exactly the physical limitation that birthed crAte. A vinyl record can only sit in one physical space on your shelf. As collectors, we all have our preferred, rigid sorting systems, do you group by release year, cluster by label, or just go strict alphabetical…
