Tracking My Music Purchases

I've mentioned before that I've been trying to purchase more music rather than relying on streaming services. Something I've started to wonder about is how my music purchases have changed over time.

My music collection goes back to probably middle school. There's no way for me to know exactly when I bought my first cassette tape or CD. With my more recent additions, that's obviously a little different. I could certainly go through my email and look for the receipts, but even that doesn't grasp all of it as I don't have the receipts from the vinyl I got at record shops.

Lucky for me, my music page is built off my media repository. This means that I can go into the code and add a field in the database to start tracking when I purchased the album.

I'll probably end up going through my Bandcamp purchases and see if I can backfill some of the data, but once integrated, it'll be nice to get some kind of visualization of what albums I bought when and how many albums I've bought per year.

This is one of the reasons I love these little home-cooked apps. I built it to solve a problem I had, and can have it do whatever I need it or want it to. I build it for me. Anyone is welcome to download it or to fork it of course, but I have it working the way I want and will continue that.

Little projects are fun.