Your Arrangement of Vinyl, Tapes, CDs and DVDS

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.

Within the artist, I go chronological.

I don't arrange them at all, much to the chagrin of my wife. 

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.


Edited by Slartibartfast - December 23 2010 at 20:02

Artists go in alphabetical order, albums within the artist go chronologically. 

alphabetical order from Z to A

irrelevant wrote: Artists go in alphabetical order, albums within the artist go chronologically.

Same here.

I have them in a couple of these (and MAN, their prices have gone up!).

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.

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.

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.