Please excuse the poor attempt at anything remotely humourous in this post’s title. However, here’s a question for you: how do you guys go about managing the various boots you download here and there? Textfiles? Access-databases? Copy-paste Word documents *shivers*? Here’s how some of us do it. Your input is, as always, highly appreciated…
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I don’t ‘manage’. I just burn ’em to CD-R and write on the disc what it is! (Insufficient disk space to keep it all on the hard drive.) I have an incomplete simple Excel spreadsheet which lists stuff whether legitimate, bootleg or whatever by artiste, title and year but that’s it. This is mainly for other people’s benefit so they can see if I’ve got something they want. Otherwise I just remember what’s what!
I too burn on the CDr,write on the disc what it is; and then shove ’em all in one of those huge cd-wallet things in no particular order. I think “is anal retentive spelled with a hyphen..” is one of the funniest things I have read since last time Ben Watson came out with one of his daft theories.
I’d say “anal retentive” is a relative term. After all, the easier it gets to properly organize ones boots (heheh), the less anal one has to be in order to maintain such a list — no?
In my case, I was truckin’ along nicely applying proper labelling to downloaded boots (yy-mm-dd venue, that sort of stuff). Searchability and sorting became a problem though, as I’m putting up a new one just about each week — without sorting and searching, how can I tell which one I already put up, say two years ago in february?
For many, “managing boots” is not an issue, but then again, I can imagine many cases where it would be key… :)