Chronological or Alphabetical or.........

Thanks everyone. It's given me some ideas. I did think that it could be a specialist system known only to the chosen and use the ProgArchives score rating.

I'm currently transferring my CDs onto a recently purchased HD walkman.

 

Now where was I.........

greenback wrote: sort them by color!

I did that for a while, but stopped when there came more intermediate colours in my collection.

I stored them face foreward for the best visual result.
 

Bands, artist by alphabet, and of course the albums by date, except for live albums, they go in the rear.

Compilation albums go seperatly, also unofficial albums (compilations and bootlegs) are stored seperatly.

I've started to make a CD database, including all relevant information. It's a lot of work, but it makes it easy to find what I'm looking for.

Alphabetically, then by year.

Alphabetical order.

To avoid having to constantly shift them around my cd racks, once a month I sort them all out and put any new cd's out.

I started to build an Access database in order to classify my record collection, but I stopped when reached a hundred entries...

NetsNJFan wrote: -->Genre ---->Band/Artists (alphabetically) ------->Album (by Year)

Yes, that's how I do it, too, so Led Zeppelin, for example, come before Los Lobos in my pop/rock section, and LZ1 before LZ2, etc. The sections I use are: pop(ular)/rock (includes prog, thus I don't need to worry if a given artist is "prog" or not); jazz/fusion/new age/electronic/world (thus Tangerine Dream are in the same section that includes Miles Davis, Andreas Vollenweider, Brazilian music, & the Gipsy Kings -- I have fewer of those discs, so seperate sections are not needed; classical/baroque/medieval/opera; Celtic/folk/traditional; and a miscellaneous "catch-all" category that includes comedy and soundtracks.

Very easy to find a given disc right away (for me), but if you look for my Brand X discs in among the stuff that contains the prog, you won't find them -- they're in the jazz section.

As long as your filing system makes sense to YOU, and you can readily find any CD within seconds, you have an effective system.

Edited by Peter

Alphabetical VS Chronological ?

Alphabetical - A trick of the tales from topographic ocean - 7.5/10

Chronological - Piper at the gates of delirium - 7.5/10

I think I'm gonna be sick

I would organise them by colour and then smell.

Or you could do like that character from Nick Hornby's "High Fidelity" and organizing them autobiographicly...