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Four ways to share your vinyl collection

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A framed gold record and art prints on the wall above a record shelf and turntable

Most collectors know roughly how big their collection is. Fewer know what is really in it: which artists they keep coming back to, how the genres add up, how it grew year by year. Share your shelf in Shelfify gives you four ways to see your collection: three pictures and a short video. Post them if you like, or keep them for yourself: plenty of collectors never post anything and still enjoy seeing their collection this way. A shelf is hard to show in one photo anyway, the spines are too small and the story behind them does not show.

In the Records tab, tap the round record button at the bottom right and choose Share your shelf. The cards sit on a wheel at the bottom of the screen: swipe it to switch cards.

Collection DNA

Your whole collection in one picture, every record coloured by its genre. Sort by the date you added them, by pressing year, by genre (one band of colour per genre, the biggest first) or by artist, A to Z. Draw it as a Helix, as Grooves on a record, as a Bloom of rays (longer for older pressings) or as a Mosaic of squares.

Four Collection DNA pictures of the same 159 records: Grooves, Helix, Bloom and a Mosaic sorted by genre

Shelfest

A festival poster made from your collection. The artists you own the most records of headline, the next ones fill the rows below. Choose Night, Sunset or Riso, and the all-time lineup or this year's. It answers "who do you actually collect?" better than any list.

Three Shelfest festival posters headlined by Radiohead, Nirvana and Led Zeppelin, in the Night, Sunset and Riso looks

Milestones

Turn any record into a framed gold or platinum record, with its cover as the label. Pick it by its number on a dial ("my 137th record"), or jump to your first record, a milestone like 50, 100, 250 or 500, or your latest. There are looks from blackened silver by candlelight to a chapel gold record. When your collection passes a milestone, Shelfify suggests the card once, and you can make one any time.

Wall Timelapse

A short video of your shelves filling up, record by record, in the order you added them, with two counters running underneath: the records on this wall and your whole collection. It shows up once your collection has more than 100 records and is ready for Reels, TikTok or a story.

Every card works the same way: the looks open from the button on the card's edge, the Aa button changes the font, and 9:16 or 4:5 picks the size. The cards work the same on iPhone, iPad, Android and Macs with Apple silicon. For the record on your turntable there is also Now Spinning, and for your listening the Last.fm collage.

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