Organising your CD collection
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Topic: Organising your CD collection
Posted By: chopper
Subject: Organising your CD collection
Date 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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Posted By: Vompatti
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 17:08
| Mine too. You're mate is a bit anal. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 17:28
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I used a similar approach until tonight, when I suddenly decided to group the albums by genre:
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Posted By: ColonelClaypool
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 17:32
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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  ------------- With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with. |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 18:34
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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Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: November 13 2005 at 21:32
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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 ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Citanul
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 02:31
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Mine's in alphabetical order, as are my book and comic collections.
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 10:06
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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. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: John Gargo
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 17:55
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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... |
Posted By: cobb
Date Posted: November 14 2005 at 18:26
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. |
goose wrote:Posted By: Zargus
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 08:32
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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Posted By: Politician
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 09:53
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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. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 10:38
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Mine's alphabetically by artist, then chronologically within the artist itself. ------------- 
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Posted By: Dragon Phoenix
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 10:47
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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. ------------- Blog this: http://artrock2006.blogspot.com |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 11:38
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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. -------------  |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 11:41
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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. ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to:
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Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 12:51
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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. |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 15:03
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Have a look at my collection: http://www.mikeenregalia.com/home/collection/view.html - http://www.mikeenregalia.com/home/collection/view.html
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 15:37
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? |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 15:41
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Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 16:00
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I reorganized it a little bit ... ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to:
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: November 15 2005 at 16:20
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I PUT THEM IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER... NOT YET CHRONOLOGIC ORDER ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: avestin
Date Posted: November 16 2005 at 01:41
I do it the same way Mike does and I have about the same number of CD's. But I have even more on my PC and its the same arrangement there as well - Genre > Artist (> Chronological only unvirtual CD's). As I move quite often I have storage limitation so due to this (and to economic restraints) I refrain from buying CD's as I used to previously. I aspire to have a few thousand CD's like others here and have a room just for music listening and CD storage...keep on dreaming... ------------- http://hangingsounds.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow - Hanging Sounds http://www.progarchives.com/ProgRockShopping.asp" rel="nofollow - PA Index of prog music vendors |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: November 16 2005 at 07:22
Good idea to photograph them - I've been thinking of doing the same in case of the unthinkable (fire/theft) happening... As for my collection, alphabetically only (too lazy to worry about dating them); three sections - classical, dance/chillout, rock (inc prog etc etc etc etc etc) ------------- 
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Posted By: Peace Frog
Date Posted: November 17 2005 at 15:30
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On top of my cd shelf is the prettiest case, that's all the organisation going on in my cd collection ------------- http://imageshack.us"> 
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