I have 8,000 LPs of which 75% are classical. I am currently using Visual FoxPro, though when I get the time I will switch over to FileMaker. You could use any spreadsheet or other flat file data base. However, you will have a lot of redundancy, paarticularly if you have a lot of classical albums. Since the files are small, performance will not suffer. However, you will need a lot of extra key strokes to enter the same amount of data versus a relational data base. For many of the fields in my data bases I have choices set up (mono/stereo) (33 1/3/45) (classical/movie/show/rock/pop) so that just one click is required to enter the data. If you are familiar with a relational data base such as MS Access and you have a more than 1,000 albums I would think you could save yourself a lot of data entry time by using the relational data base.
Fields In Manufacturer File:
Record Label
Secondary label (Shaded Dog/White Dog/Dead Dog, etc.)
Stamper Number
Manufacturer's Number
Genre (movie/classical/rock, etc.)
Price
Artist
Title
Key (for linking data bases)
Condition
Speed
Number of disks
Fields in Album File
Stereo or Mono
Composer
Title
Conductor
Orchestra
Year
Filed under
Category (solo violin, violin concerto, guitar, wind, etc.
Performer
Key
Fields In Manufacturer File:
Record Label
Secondary label (Shaded Dog/White Dog/Dead Dog, etc.)
Stamper Number
Manufacturer's Number
Genre (movie/classical/rock, etc.)
Price
Artist
Title
Key (for linking data bases)
Condition
Speed
Number of disks
Fields in Album File
Stereo or Mono
Composer
Title
Conductor
Orchestra
Year
Filed under
Category (solo violin, violin concerto, guitar, wind, etc.
Performer
Key