Jwc, You're more ambitious than I am. :-)
I started to do that once, catalog all my stuff, but ultimately I simplified that by simply purging and or re-prioritizing placement. Apart from recordings I gave away, I have set up two locations - the prime location in classical is where I keep performances that I actually pull out to listen to now, the secondary location is where I put recordings I only pull out for reference.
The prime location is broken down into categories by composer with sub categories of type of music and if the collection is large enuf into further sub-sub categories by performer. Compilations are filed by conductor, on in chamber/solo instrument, by performer(s). (I do this in other types of music but I usually just file by performer).
The benefit is that I don't need to go to a card file or a computer to find stuff that I regularily listen to, don't need to do all that clerical work, and on those few occasions I do need to pull a reference recording it comes up fairly by walking my little fingers. Not a perfect system but it works for me (and FWIW, while the format differs our numbers are not far apart.)
I started to do that once, catalog all my stuff, but ultimately I simplified that by simply purging and or re-prioritizing placement. Apart from recordings I gave away, I have set up two locations - the prime location in classical is where I keep performances that I actually pull out to listen to now, the secondary location is where I put recordings I only pull out for reference.
The prime location is broken down into categories by composer with sub categories of type of music and if the collection is large enuf into further sub-sub categories by performer. Compilations are filed by conductor, on in chamber/solo instrument, by performer(s). (I do this in other types of music but I usually just file by performer).
The benefit is that I don't need to go to a card file or a computer to find stuff that I regularily listen to, don't need to do all that clerical work, and on those few occasions I do need to pull a reference recording it comes up fairly by walking my little fingers. Not a perfect system but it works for me (and FWIW, while the format differs our numbers are not far apart.)