How do you sort your albums?

My Cds are in a mess right now. I have it on racks (3 giant racks actually, prog and non prog stuffs) Im contemplating on arranging it even before reading this thread.

I think, my favored CD's are the ones on top. Right now, the 1st 5 on top of the stack:

1. Meshuggah-- Catch 33

2. Kansas-- Leftoverture

3. Vital Tech Tones ( Fine Jazz Rock by Victor Wooten et al)

4. Red Hot Chili Peppers-- Blood Sugar Sex Magik

5. Dream Theater-- Six Degrees of inner Turbulence

... and thats just rack number 1!

no set rulesbut alphabetically always bothered me , because I never wanted to seeTraffic in between or next  Robin Trower ,Triumph and Pat Travers>> all of whom were guitar rock where Traffic were rather guitar-less

So I work by association mainly.

First by genre/style>> ex: Zeuhl, hard rock or Folk Prog

and most likely also by related artist too>> I will keep Tim Buckley and John Martyn close to Pentangle because of jazz influences as well as Danny Thompson who played bass on all three >> and since Pentangle is Folk Prog, I keep them nearby folk rock/prog

but inside those "groupings" I keep the albums chronologically by group.

But I will try to keep also some kind of order by nationality if the genre will allow it to as well

For those I have not yet found a place for with the guidelines above

then a chronological order working around when the Artiste was most influential

Makes sense?

Doesn't matter!!!!

Valarius wrote: Alphabetically by artist, then all cds in chronological order. Very uniform I am.

I do the same, but I also sort my CDs according to their genre.

martinprog77 wrote: my wife asking meif a have enought cd's and i said''not yet''

You can never have ENUF.

I used to sort alphabetically when I was young. I read High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and he said that sorting alphabetically was the most boring way of sorting your albums. I'd never thought that there was any other way of sorting. Now I sort by genre:

• Classic prog
• Prog metal
• Neo prog
• Psychedelic
• Pop
• Metal

I like it this way. It makes it easier to choose what to listen to.

My neo prog collection is a bit small so I'll build on that one next.

I convert them to mp3 and the machine allows me to "tag" them as I want. The "corpse" of the CD is thrown into one of the many huge cardboard boxes where I store them. For my most respected (and collected) artists, I have small boxes, very pretty, so as not to scare the visits (and my wife).

The cardboard boxes are hidden in several locations of my parents' house, my office...  My appartment's not very big.

Primarily sorted alphabetically by artist and secondarily sorted chronologically by title.

Sort?

I have a 4 sided swivel stand that is 6' high. I also keep my DVD's in there. too.  I am going to get the alphabetacly eventually once I get them all in there.  I am writing a Database for the rest of the info.  I don't like mp3's at all except to share something for review. I don't have I-pod  and I guess it would be really hard for me to not have a physical package of material to accompany the music.