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    Posted: November 13 2005 at 16:07
Mine is in alphbetical order of artists, then in date order within artist (as far as possible). My mate thinks this is a bit anal. Is he right? How do you sort your collection (if at all)?
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Mine too. You're mate is a bit anal.
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I used a similar approach until tonight, when I suddenly decided to group the albums  by genre:

  • Prog Metal/Prog Rock+Avant+Independent/Classical/Jazz/Shred/Electronic
  • Alphabetical
  • Chronological

 
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I have separate cd-racks for metal, prog, rock, stonerrock and 'various'. Not really organised very well though. I just stick all of a band's releases next to each other and move on to the next. Recently though, I've run out of space, so there's a few piles of cd's lying on the floor near the stereo as well
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Same as cobb's - my excuse is it's easier to find them that way, but we all know it's just for the sake of alphabetical order
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Mine is in genres, then alphabetical order within artists, then by date (although I sometimes have problems deciding where to stick compilations) ... I also arrange the whole thing in order of decade of prominence (ie rock'n'roll in the 50s, disco in the 70s, etc)

Then sometimes I stick a band members solo album after the group, but only if they haven't established themselves as a solo artiste ... in other words the John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison albums are in the male solo section, but the Ringo Starr album is next to the Beatles ...

It's always a big thing when I decided to move a band out of its genre ... like Pink Floyd and Procol Harum out of 60's Psychedelic Rock into 70s Progressive Rock ...

3,000 plus CDs ... you gotta have a system ... but when I describe it like this ... it does sound pretty darned anal ...

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Mine's in alphabetical order, as are my book and comic collections.
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By genres: Canterbury groups on one shelf , symphonic on another etc.. and then chronologically

All jazz together and just above the jazz-rock fusion> Only a few things (more modern prog stuff i leave them by country or group of country - such as Scandinavia)

Never occured to me by alphabetical order although I must say I have friends who do it , but you cannot see the CD ends since they are in closed drawers.

I never thought of linking (or placing next too) say genesis and Gentle Giant just because they are alphabetically successors: I place Gryphon and GG together but Genesis will be next to Yes and Elp etc....

I work more in associating the groups by style or origins or even by decades.



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Alphabetically and then chronologically within each artist.  Sometimes I think I should seperate my prog, metal, classic rock albums from each other but I haven't made that leap yet.  I probably will once I get a few more prog albums.

I don't know about anyone else but one of the most relaxing things to me is to put on a CD and then to reorganize my collection...
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Originally posted by goose goose wrote:

Same as cobb's - my excuse is it's easier to find them that way, but we all know it's just for the sake of alphabetical order


I haven't even posted here goose?? Anyway, I use these wonderful things called CD stackers. 100 cd's per stacker unit, stackable to 127,000 cd's, single usb connection to the pc. Just stick them in and then you have them automatically collated, searchable, book em out if you lend em. I've got 400 or so cd's in the space it takes to put a beer keg. Amazing things.
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I have no aphabetixc order in my collection i sorten like this, the great bands/artist high up and the not so good lower down so i got the greatest ones high up easy to se em and the bad ones very low down not easy to see
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Mine is organised by country (I have albums from just about everywhere
you can think of), then alphabetically, then by date.
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Mine's alphabetically by artist, then chronologically within the artist itself.
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First division by genre (each have their own cabinet):
- classical
- pop/rock
- jazz
- newage/crossover/world music
- mandarin pop/rock

Within these, mainly alphabetical (composer for classical, performer for others). I do not make a distinction in genres in pop/rock: you will find Garbage, Genesis and Green Day close together on the same shelves. Per band/artist I go chronological only in cases where I have more than five CD's.
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Points: 27802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2005 at 11:38

Originally posted by Cygnus X-2 Cygnus X-2 wrote:

Mine's alphabetically by artist, then chronologically within the artist itself.

Same here.

And I have over 3,000 cds,so I don't use towers,I built some nice floor to ceiling shelves on one wall of our den and that is what I store them on.


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I can only recommend sorting by genre and then alphabetically ... I have only 600 cds, and it already makes a huge difference. The albums are much easier to find than before. I only use "fuzzy" genres like Prog Metal, Prog Rock/Avant, Metal, Rock, Pop, Jazz, Electronic.
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My cds are in a pretty random order .. except that I've put all my prog cd's in one place.

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Have a look at my collection:

http://www.mikeenregalia.com/home/collection/view.html

 
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Points: 20032 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 15 2005 at 15:37
Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

Have a look at my collection:

http://www.mikeenregalia.com/home/collection/view.html

 


Nice collection Mike, although I can only recognise one or two e.g. Jagged Little Pill. Have you got the Geri Halliwell one hidden away?
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^  it's in here:

http://www.mikeenregalia.com/elements/apps/mreviews/https/co llection4.jpg

between Garbage and Hendrix.



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