Best app for cataloging and valuing large CD collection

[Jeff R]

I am getting ready to move my wife and I and our businesses 1,800 miles across country.

I am considering liquidating my sizable compact disc collection rather than moving it.

If my library makes the move, however, I need to catalog and value it for moving insurance purposes.

My library has been boxed up for years and I don't know the quantity, but I'd guess a few thousand titles. I'm sure there are plenty of imports/rarities in the mix.

I need an app that will allow me to quickly scan the CDs via barcodes and/or album covers ...

... that IDs, organizes the library, and assigns fair market values individually and/or in common or user-defined subsets.

Being able to download data into spreadsheets for whenever it's time to sell would be a huge, huge plus.

I will pay a reasonable subscription fee for the ideal tool.

I'd love to hear what the much more serious CD collectors and buy/sell/traders use for their own libraries and catalogs. Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

[velorush]

We bought some stupid expensive bar code scanners for use in our warehouses. They were overkill. We wound up with some inexpensive Amazon units that are much more user-friendly. Something like this works great.

https://a.co/d/09SUuhth

Open Excel and scan each UPC label. That should get you enough information to document what you've got. All that would remain would be to assign a value to each and then total. 

I would be extremely tempted to hand the completed Excel workbook to ChatGPT and see what it could do in the way of valuation. Might be a trainwreck, but if it worked it would be extremely quick about it.  

[topekatj]

@Jeff R

Have you heard of Discogs? https://www.discogs.com
 

it’s on online marketplace AND collection management platform.

 

but you’ll have to upload the catalog info yourself 

 

 

 

Edited October 19 by topekatj

[velorush]

If Discogs allows an upload of Excel (or some variant like a csv file), combine our posts and you're done in an afternoon for less than $50.

[mathman]

I used this years ago and it worked ok.  I think the updated version is better.

https://www.koingosw.com/products/librarianpro/