Recording anthologies of stories

[Bill Gee]

Bruno, I think you have a good point.  Tellico seems intended to catalog 
physical items.  The kinds of search and reports I am looking for 
involve relationships between both physical entities (books or records) 
and non-physical entities (authors, songs, stories, artists etc.)

As Robby pointed out, I could add a field of type "table" to the books 
database, then use it to list the stories contained in an anthology. 
The problem with that is once added to ANY book, it shows up for EVERY 
book.  It is a reasonable assumption that every music album has tracks. 
The same is not true of books.

Research is required.  A bit of searching found a thing called 
Readerware.  Not free, and uncertain if it will do what I want.  There 
are other applications

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Bill Gee

On 12/6/25 17:28, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Bill Gee said on Sat, Dec 06, 2025 at 09:06:59AM -0600:
>> I also have an extensive music collection, nearly 5000 albums.  Two 
>> similar problems exist in that.  First, if any one album is given more 
>> than one disk, then EVERY album has more than one disk.  I have at 
>> least one album (a collection of Bach organ pieces) which has 18 disks.
> 
> I have more than 8500 CDs in Tellico. Each physical CD is an entry. e.g.
> All 18 CDs could have the same title, potentially a subtitle that could
> help differentiate them, but on my side I chose to have a number of CDs
> with a total of CDs. That way I can query and sort the way I want.
> 
>> Second, I would like to be able to get a list of songs.  It would be 
>> interesting to know, for example, which artists have recorded "Comes 
>> Love".
> 
> Using the tracks entires, I can search for a gloria of Byrd without
> difficulty either. The serach is full text and extremely quick.
> 
>> Also in a music collection, there are anthologies of music which have 
>> the same issues as anthologies of books.
> 
> Well, I always think in tellico as collecting a physcial item: A book, a
> score, a CD, a DVD, ... and even if there may be some limitations, the
> way I can use tellico and adapt the data model at will is key, in
> addition to the exterme performances I can get from it for searches.
> 
> And it's Free Software, so if you want something, you can always code
> it.
> 
> Bruno.