How do you sort your albums?

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

You can never have ENUF.

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.

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!!!!

Edited by Sean Trane

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!

ClemofNazareth wrote: Empathy wrote: rushaholic wrote: Kind of anal about it but I sort them first alphabetically by artist and then by the year released for each artist. Yep, me too. I'm bordering on obsessive/compulsive with my collection! For all of you who are anal about your music:

That guitar's a perfect match for my playing ability!

For my LP's (I have 5 orange crates of them  ) I have always had them alphabetical by artist because the ends are so slim that I'd never find what I'm looking for otherwise.  With cds it's much faster to locate titles so I kinda have a "most favored" row instead.

Mmmm I don't sort my albums my Windows Media Player does that for me :P

I have two cd racks that I sort by member relations and country.  For example on one rack I have American bands starting with Dream Theater which is followed by Chroma Key followed by OSI followed by Fates Warning and so on.  On another rack I have Pain of Salvation followed by the Flower Kings followed by the Tangent followed by Tomas Bodin and etc.

I sort them alphabetically on artist, and per artist chronologically. However, most of the times everything gets mixed up anyway, so I have to sort it out again every now and then. But I like doing this, I like being busy with my CD collection.

Here, we have an uncomplicated yet affective
method.
We have a few book cases that are home to our cd's.
But the little blighters keep roaming, so we have
splinter groups in the kitchen (next to cd player), in
the lounge (next to cd player) in the car, normally a
few in the bedroom (next to cd player) and then there
are always a few nomadic tribes, so you might find a
cd in the veggie rack (checking lyrics whilst cooking)
or in the bathroom (reading booklet in bath)
This system works well, once a month or so we pay
the kids to pop them all back in the correct boxes
and drag them over to the book cases, this usually
ends up in a "we need a new book case" / "I hate
buying furniture" debate, which is ALWAYS fun.
Once in the cases (for the lucky ones we find room
for and don't have to squat in unhappy piles in the
book case waiting area) I tend to like arranging them
by colour of spine. For a lot of cd's it takes on an
asthetically pleasing view of the book case when
passing through the room.
If you were a cd in our collection, the only place you
would definately NOT want to be,is the back of the
car! 'cos that is where we throw the real shockers,
and from then on it's a slippery downhill slope
involving kids, mud, spilt juice and boots, and
eventually either the dustbin, or the "keep that handy
for scaring away unwanted visitors" pile.

Then of course there is the "cd case holding area"
awaiting the return of those cd's that have obviously
elpoed with ONE sock........ 'cos where else could all
those one socks and missing cd's go?

Bet your alphabetising sounds lame now!

'tis ok, there is no copywrite in this plan, feel free to
use it, it's GREAT!!!

Prog-Chick x