Your Arrangement of Vinyl, Tapes, CDs and DVDS
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Topic: Your Arrangement of Vinyl, Tapes, CDs and DVDS
Posted By: Gentlegiantprog
Subject: Your Arrangement of Vinyl, Tapes, CDs and DVDS
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 18:59
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When you stack or file (or whatever) your Vinyl, cds and dvds how do you do it ?
Alphabetically for everything ? Do you do it in catagories for everything? Do you keep braod categories but then alpabatise within those ? (Eg all TV dvds alphabetised, seperate from all Cinmea DVDs alphabetised, sperate from Music DVDs , maybe the music DVDs are with your CDs and not with the film and televsion ones ) Or does anyone have their own unique systems ? For those who like their music aranged chronoligal and not alphabetic... Do you rename all your albums on your iPod/computer like '01 From Genesis To Revelation' '02 Trespass,' '03 Nursery Crime,' '04 Foxtrot,' '05 Selling England by the Pound,' etc or do you just allow it to be alphabetic ? ------------- Let the maps of war be drawn ! 
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 19:16
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Way back when, I had my CDs in chronological order (Original release date: Year, Month, Day, alphabetical by artist if there were several releases on the same day). However, some release dates were quite difficult to find. And, by the time I owned 1000+ records, I got annoyed with shifting everything just to add a new item. Now I just have it by artist alphabetical order; genres be damned, it's all music so it all goes together. |
Posted By: SaltyJon
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 19:19
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Yeah, I just go alphabetical by artist, and within the artist I go alphabetical by album title. That's it.
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 19:22
| Within the artist, I go chronological. |
Posted By: timothy leary
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 19:26
| ^ stopping at 1989 I hope? |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 19:26
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I don't arrange them at all, much to the chagrin of my wife.
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 19:36
I have no secrets about about my absolute loyalty to pre-1989 artists. My collection is visible to all (just check out my signature). |
timothy leary wrote:Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 20:00
Alphabetical by artist then by year. Lately I've been a bit of a slacker and just trying to be sure all an artist's stuff together. However the collection gets moved back to the house once they are done enough with flood repairs. It won't look much different from this: The CDs were really well organized, the DVD's less so. The LPs at the middle top survived (it's a collage of five areas of media. ------------- Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened... 
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Posted By: Luna
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 21:09
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I normally will do chronological, but right now, it's just a pile of sh*t
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Posted By: irrelevant
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 21:54
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Artists go in alphabetical order, albums within the artist go chronologically. ------------- https://gabebuller.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow - New album! http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=7385 |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 23:01
| I go by artists, which makes it easier to find now that I have over 1500 CDs, and within the artist, I arrange them chronologically, from the first to the last. I have kept this system from the very beginning, so it's no problem to continue adding to it. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 23:14
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alphabetical order from Z to A -------------   
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: December 23 2010 at 23:43
It's kind of splitted by genres, and within one artist/band the albums are ordered by year of release. 
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: December 24 2010 at 05:32
Same here. I have them in a couple of http://www.cdcabinet.com/CD-storage-DVD-storage.htm" rel="nofollow - these (and MAN, their prices have gone up!). ------------- "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: December 24 2010 at 05:42
Same with me. But because I study Czech Studies, I have a shelf reserved for music from the Czech republic only. |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: December 24 2010 at 05:53
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All my CDs are listed from Atomic Rooster to Zappa in sliding draws. I have too many to fit in the draws though so I have a separate box of Beatles, and a box of Pink Floyd CDs. On a shelf I have put all the oddities, compilations and every Rush album. Vinyls are kept downstairs in crates with all the prog albums at the front in no real order. Cassettes are kept in a large container and rarely used these days. I have also recorded onto cassettes every prog album I have in case something happens to the CDs, though nothing has as yet. There is a method to the madness. ------------- 
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 24 2010 at 06:24
| Intuitive manner: I put once artist's CDs on the shelf, then next to his I put the CDs of the artist who has the strongest connection with the previous one, and so forth. Works perfect for me. One other thing that I try is to keep jewel cases and digipacks grouped, with as little as possible mixing. |
Posted By: Gentlegiantprog
Date Posted: December 24 2010 at 08:15
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My method, tied directly to my mind and how I
define everything in tiny catagories works really well and if I want
something I can work out where it is in a heartbeat, based on how my
brain works.
But most of my friends and family alphebtise and if they want soemthing of mine can't find it because my way makes no bloody sense and is unnesssecarily awkward and unintutive. With me, I keep everything seperate like Games, DVDs and CDs Within each they are broken down into genres, then into bands or directors, then they go left to right from oldest to newest, BUT, each band/movie cluster is placed from left to right by fewest albums to most albums (slash films in a series) So if you look at the very left of my shelf it would have the one Devil Driver cd I own, and to the very right you would find Wrath, the newest of six Lamb of God albums, which are the band from the same genre with the most cds. ------------- Let the maps of war be drawn !
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Posted By: caretaker
Date Posted: December 24 2010 at 09:57
| I used to alphabetize but am now in the process of reorganizing by artist in order of interest. Stuff I listen to frequently is filed. The rest is, or will be stacked in a closet. |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: December 24 2010 at 14:20
| Alphabetical for me with a section for new ones. Around once a year I have a sort out and shift newer purchases into the main collection. |
Posted By: Gentlegiantprog
Date Posted: December 24 2010 at 15:35
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After starting this thread (on like 5 forums) I decided to go and arange them all alphabetically, it took like an hour and a half to do. It looks a lot less tidy to my eye than my own way, even though it is exactly as physically tidy. Ah well, its done now, I'm one step further towards my goal of being less of a mental case. ------------- Let the maps of war be drawn !
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Posted By: Baggra
Date Posted: December 24 2010 at 16:11
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What five forums?.
Pray tell.
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